Global mobility managers and their recruited talents need to know the dos and don’ts of social distancing and how to accurately gauge a safe distance that prevents the possibility of a mutual infection. Both have to ask themselves how they can continue sticking by that standard...
The time for complacency is over. At some point since this crisis started, global mobility managers have received these harrowing questions from their talents: How long will I keep my job as an expat? Wouldn’t an expat be the one first one to be let...
Working from home is the new workplace, at least until this pandemic continues to keep office workers in quarantine. Yes, this may give us a reprieve from the traffic gridlock and keep us safe from the coronavirus, but it can also lead to increased bouts...
Money problems and the uncertainty of where the next dollar is coming from are the most painful triggers of stress that have been caused by the coronavirus. As businesses shut down and unemployment looms, the thought of paying the next bill is enough to cause anxiety...
The coronavirus has indeed changed how global mobility professionals and assignees in northern California live, work, hang out with friends, take care of their health, and eat, mostly home-cooked meals these days. Having eaten inside food courts at Google’s campuses, those employees are missing their...
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...
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...
At best, it is a crisis situation that has defied precedence. At worst, it can be a nightmare that is hard to awaken from. In the frontlines of global mobility hiring, a manager could face a problem on both sides of the pond: Americans who...
For over the past three decades, globalization and technology-induced changes such as automation and digitization have altered US industry and jobs. Industry followers knew this was going to be the norm even before the pandemic hit us. In a McKinsey Global Institute report in 2015, the...
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...