Describing where San Francisco and Silicon Valley are based on location (a region in the southern San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California, referring to the San Clara Valley) is to simplify things, but many of those who work at Google (38 miles away from...
Expats can never really go back home. Those who do go home take a while to adjust. But in most cases, an expat will do anything to stay, especially if he has experienced life in Northern California. What happens is that even before their contract...
When is the best time to terminate an expat assignment? It’s not always an easy decision but expats know they always have a contract with an expiration date stamped on it. The contract can be extended but organizations need to have a policy in place...
It’s true many software developers have the easy path to become expats anywhere, which gives the false assumption that they’ve almost co-opted the distinction or title. There are other types of expats these days. They work in the San Francisco Bay Area. There’s the foreign service...
There are two types of millennials in Silicon Valley. Those who come here for work as professionals and those who are in here in the summertime -- the interns. If you can’t place what age groups millennials are, they are in the 22- to 36-age...
In an increasingly competitive business landscape, oftentimes opportunity and compensation packages are the deciding factors that make one assignee accept a job offer and turn down others. Yet perks and pay are not the only ones that sweetened that deal and persuaded them to sign...
In an age that is perpetually disrupted by technology, lifelong learning has become a must and a way of life, and no longer an option. It’s not just the course or the subject matter that is changing, but the platforms and methods that bring education...
In an era that has been described as Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous, assignees and the global mobility managers guiding them have to be more agile than most. This observation can come as a mild shock to those concerned, because assignees are expected to be...
It is a situation that has led many global mobility managers scratching their heads. They have done everything by the book and yet their assignee still seems to be faltering. They had invested in these foreign hires’ training, time in family counseling, and the learning...
This big C is like cancer. It’s definitely cancer to the tech world, but they’re cybersecurity threats that have morphed into something far more lethal. They hijack computers and steal important data in exchange for money or payment in the form of bitcoins. The cancer has...