Global mobility usually operates at the back end of businesses. But since the onset of the pandemic, companies have been scrambling to get sound advice from experts in talent mobility in the hopes of weathering this economic storm. For the past years, many companies have recognized...
People’s view on relocation varies, even if the move is just a few miles away from, say, San Francisco to San Jose in California. Depending on the location, some may find the move a relief, while others may find it stressful, amid the current health...
The impact of Covid-19 on global mobility has placed talent management strategies in the spotlight. Business executives learned the potential it has to offer in making key decisions with regards to talent management. A PwC pulse survey shows strategic mobility projects as one of the most...
It seems so far back in the past now. If anyone recalls, the movies made cubicles look dreary, soulless cubbyholes. Flash news: They've never been gone. Even Google's Mountain View offices have them. It was easy to pick on cubicles in pop culture. Design wise,...
One of our blogs had discussed the importance of creating a culture of care for employees and assignees, especially during these troubled times. Despite the hundred-mile distance formed by work-from-home scenarios, they have to be able to feel and sense that the organization---and the global...
How do you survive as a company---let alone succeed and thrive---despite the uncertainty facing you now? That is the question that is haunting the minds of many CEOs and business owners right now, as the coronavirus pandemic disrupted almost every aspect of our society and...
As lockdowns are being lifted and coronavirus cases are either flattening or going down, expect for talent mobility to restart. It may not happen as fast as we global mobility managers would like, but company heads and business leaders who want to continue their globalization...
Months after this pandemic, offices have opened up. Some work at the office, others from home. Even more people hover between two options and don’t know where to situate themselves. Reality seems to have made people feel like they’re caught in the middle of a...
One thing that the coronavirus and its induced quarantines have driven home is the need for a caring culture in the workplace. All of a sudden, the impending collapse of businesses and the failure to meet the bottom line has shown us all the unexpected...
Was the off-the-charts productivity of employees in the first few months of the pandemic actually fear-driven productivity? If that is the case, then work from home for teams dependent on each other is not sustainable. Three months earlier in the lockdown, not many companies were...