23 Mar The Couch Looks Inviting but an Exercise Space in Front of TV May be in Order 

Posted at 15:14h in Business Travel, Corporate Housing, Global Mobility, Smart Home & Cities by Ray [social_share]

Many corporate apartments like the one you see in California Corporate Housing’s website look like the fancy spreads you see in Architectural Digest. In Silicon Valley, where tech workers’ salaries range from $200,000 to $500,000 or even higher, that is not unusual. Which is also...

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20 Mar Global Mobility Management in the Low-Touch Economy

Posted at 15:07h in Corporate Housing, Global Mobility, Job Prospects, Smart Home & Cities by Ray [social_share]

The low-touch economy. It’s the new term coined by an Antwerp-based group called The Board of Innovation to describe the new normal we are finding ourselves in. To put it simply, tech is in, and touch is out.  Any service that requires personal meetings or visits...

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14 Mar A Reflective Approach to Working from Home for Assignees

Posted at 01:32h in Corporate Culture & Training, Corporate Housing, Job Prospects by Ray [social_share]

For the past two months now, COVID-19 has changed the way people work, but Adam Grant, professor of Management and Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, shared what he thinks will change from a mental and physical perspective: Some people will suffer from...

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05 Mar Critical Role of Communications During the Coronavirus Crisis

Posted at 15:24h in Corporate Culture & Training, Corporate Housing, Expat by Ray [social_share]

How does one navigate the new reality we’re living in? Questions abound. This makes the role of communications even more critical nowadays. For example, how will the quarantine impact global mobility? Will assignees lose our jobs? How long do we have to work from home?  Crises like...

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28 Feb Closer Look Reveals These California Job Prospects Amid Coronavirus

Posted at 01:36h in Artificial Intelligence, Corporate Culture & Training, Corporate Housing, Expat, Northern California, San Francisco, San Jose, Virtual Reality, Work from Home by Ray [social_share]

The state of California and its cities like San Francisco are bracing for tougher times ahead, due to the spread of the coronavirus in the United States, among other countries. One casualty is employment as a rising number of talents are either being laid off...

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25 Feb Quarantined? Top 3 Tech Skills Assignees Should Learn ASAP 

Posted at 01:31h in Corporate Culture & Training, Corporate Housing, Global Mobility, Northern California by Ray [social_share]

Tech workers who continually upgrade their skills will never run out of work, as organizations that are always trying to stay on top of the next tech revolution will want them for their in-demand skills. One other asset of this kind of employee or assignee...

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19 Feb Pandemic May Ease Use of VR, AI, Wearable Tech in Corporate World

Posted at 13:31h in Corporate Housing, Global Mobility, Smart Home & Cities by Ray [social_share]

Consumer technology products may no longer be confined to entertainment activities, as the current pandemic may ease their use for the corporate world, serving as vital instruments for people looking for a more productive way of working away from their office. Tit for tat, corporate...

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17 Feb Homebound? Use Project Management Tools, Virtual Whiteboards and Quarantine-Friendly Furniture

Posted at 17:05h in Corporate Housing by Ray [social_share]

All of a sudden, the global mobility manager is told that they and their team, which includes assignees, have to work from home indefinitely. Insulation is one way to protect the staff from the infection of the COVID-19 virus. The fewer employees on-ground physically present...

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15 Feb Uncharted Waters: 3 Swift Ways the Business Community Can Respond to COVID-19

Posted at 18:35h in Corporate Housing by Ray [social_share]

To say that the crisis posed by COVID-19 aka the coronavirus is unprecedented is an understatement. Entire nations like France, Spain, Malaysia, and Italy --- which arguably is the hardest-hit next to China --- are on total lockdown; flights in and out of these countries...

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12 Feb Global Mobility: From a Strategy that Leads to Business Growth to Partner

Posted at 00:29h in Corporate Housing by Ray [social_share]

Global mobility is finally seeing its place in the corporate sun. Many American companies have looked outward as a project or a part-time department, determining for themselves the value it brings them as the work expands. As more companies establish their foothold in other countries,...

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