Should a Relocated Employee Be Compared With Colleagues at Home—or in the Host Country?
An employee working in Paris accepts a three-year assignment in Silicon Valley. Her salary remains tied partly to France, but the move to Northern California...
An employee working in Paris accepts a three-year assignment in Silicon Valley. Her salary remains tied partly to France, but the move to Northern California...
Lump-sum relocation policies have become an appealing answer to rising costs and administrative complexity. Employers receive a predictable expense, mobility teams manage fewer service providers,...
Global immigration is not moving neatly toward either openness or closure. A more selective system is emerging instead: governments are tightening enforcement for many travelers...
Global mobility leaders are confronting an uncomfortable equation. The talent companies need is becoming harder to find, yet moving that talent across borders is becoming...
Artificial intelligence is transforming the global economy at a pace few technologies have achieved before. Yet while headlines often focus on breakthroughs in large language...
Global mobility is no longer defined by the act of moving employees from one country to another. In 2026, it is increasingly defined by how...
The global workforce has never been more dispersed. U.S. companies are hiring across borders, building teams that stretch from Latin America to Southeast Asia, and...
The Bay Area is already being flagged as an “extreme” housing pressure market ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2026, with rates projected to rise...
2026 is not shaping up to be a year of incremental change. It is a year of structural acceleration. Across AI, recruiting, global mobility, immigration policy,...
The structure of work is changing faster than most operating models. Freelancers. Independent contractors. Consultants. Employer-of-Record (EOR) hires. Distributed teams operating across time zones without entity...
Survey data suggests American workers are entering the year in what researchers are calling “survival mode.” Caution is replacing curiosity. Stability is replacing ambition. And...
Employers are entering 2026 facing a paradox: they urgently need skilled talent, yet the financial and regulatory cost of moving people across borders keeps climbing....