No one likes to talk about it, not the expat or global mobility manager. After all, it’s not part of the relocation package, but it’s there like the elephant in the room. Yes, when it comes to relocating for work, finding love is the least...
With dire warnings that AI and the latest technological marvels will soon supplant human ingenuity and effort, it is no wonder Global Mobility Managers -- as well as their Human Resource counterparts -- are a bit leery when it comes to deploying newer and “smarter”...
While corporations everywhere are recognizing that international assignments are key to their own global expansion, one little-known but sobering fact should give them pause before they start planning for it: the failure rate of expatriates who had been posted on foreign shores remains at a...
More Europeans are uprooting themselves from their founding countries to re-establish themselves -- where else? -- in Silicon Valley. The Valley’s indefatigable spirit of innovation is the one common factor that are luring many lean-and-mean European startups to leave their countries and pick the tech...
If you’re moving to another city or country that shares your language, then adjusting is no big deal, right? Think again. Workplace culture is an entirely different beast. Chron debunks this in one case study wherein American expatriates failed in their post in the United Kingdom....
Remember a time when saying “it’s the season to be jolly” was not tinged with skepticism? Even if the news tell us otherwise, the time to put aside all our differences and celebrate the tradition of joy and gift-giving is here. Whether you are new...
They sign the contract, do their time (and spectacularly at that), and then return home to rediscover their roots until their international employer calls on them again. That essentially defines the work cycle that Global Mobility Managers have come to associate with their talents from...
Some hobbies start as a simple way to fill the time. Others spring up because the pioneers who start them want to enjoy the activities they are used to doing at home. Others stumble on a different way to do a traditional sport or lesson....
Global Mobility Managers are going to busy as ever as companies looking to capture a bigger slice of the international markets continue hiring and deploying expatriate professionals from all around the world for work in Silicon Valley. But the amount of time the assignee must spend...
Global Mobility Managers tend to think that their assignees live only in two worlds: that of the home country they temporarily left behind, and their current nation or region of employment. Rightly or wrongly, intentionally or not, they believe that their assignee (and their family,...