Global mobility specialists find their tasks easier if the assignee he has hired is working as part of one monocultural team. For example, he brings in an Asian or European programmer to work in a retail store trying to find its digital footprint somewhere in...
Making foreign and American talents adjust to the companies that hire them are enough to keep global mobility specialists on their toes. Assignees have to be both a good corporate and culture fit that another concern is overlooked: generation gap. Tech-savvy, social-media-oriented millennials will make up...
Many arguments have been made about the advantages and benefits the H-1B visa have provided the American economy, but one fact still has to be mentioned. That pillar of American sports culture known as the National Basketball Association (NBA), would have played a very different...
It’s a situation that can give a global mobility specialist a panic attack. There’s an outbreak of epidemic in one of your allied countries, or flights have been grounded in one of its cities because of a terrorist attack. You learn that one of the...
The global mobility specialist’s work does not end once his assignee starts reporting to work in his new company -- in fact, it has just begun. The success of the assignee will reflect on the global mobility specialist’s choice of recruit, and perhaps can extend...
The millennial workforce is about to get even younger. And just when you thought you had them figured out (or still not), new studies have broken them down into two categories: the Gen-Ys born from roughly the late 1980s to the late 1990s and the...
Companies known as “employers of record” (EOR) started garnering attention a few years ago when corporations started to outsource human resource (HR) work to them that was related to freelancers and project-based hires. According to CPA Practice Advisor, these EOR were given tasks to form...
Last February 27, California Corporate Housing attended the conference hosted by the Corporate Housing Providers Association (CHPA) as it tackled the challenges in the housing business sector and the innovations and trends that industry players can expect to happen and should respond to. The event...
One of our previous blogs discussed the changing shape of the modern family, and it is a transformation that global mobility specialists should recognize and plan for. To recap, the traditional expatriate family that is typical composed of a nuclear unit of the father, mother, and...
One element that has made the Bay Area Mobility Management (BAMM) continue to thrive is that the members can celebrate their collective wins, despite (or perhaps because of) the spirit of healthy competition. That was the takeaway of the attendees in the recent BAMM annual...