What does it feel like to be an intern at 30? Journalist Elizabeth Sergen painted a vivid picture of it for Fast Company -- and even better, she said it was the best move of her career. In the gig economy where the only thing...
How does understanding Western and Eastern cultures work in the corporate setting and global mobility? In an interview with HumanResources, Sara Cheng, CEO of Fuji Xerox Singapore, delved deeper by comparing the differences between the two cultures: “Asian culture is more command and control, top-down...
What if your expat hire got pregnant while on assignment? In her memoir, “Women’s Work: A Reckoning With Work and Home,” former foreign correspondent Megan K. Stack recounts the challenges she faced as a pregnant assignee. Fortunately, her husband was also a foreign talent who...
The traditional expatriate package is becoming more expensive for organizations to shoulder. Yet paying an assignee or an employee relocating to another country the local rates of their local counterparts might prove too much of an adjustment, and might even demoralize them. Global mobility managers...
Global mobility metrics should always be a major concern of global mobility managers. Come performance assessment time and department budget hearings, the company executives will always ask about the value that global mobility brings to the table. The issue may not just be a matter of...
Allyn Bailey, a talent acquisition transformation manager, offers a new diagram for talent acquisition that makes absolute sense: a talent acquisition infinity loop that conveys what the job is really about --- a relationship business, not merely a transactional one. Yes, more than creating a memorable...
Picking the right school for the assignee’s child who has relocated with them to their new country of employment is a momentous decision. It is not something that should be overlooked or taken for granted. An assignee’s productivity and overall happiness rely greatly on how they,...
Global mobility managers need to assist talents about the type of relocation package employers are offering to relocating talents. Are they offering a relocation reimbursement, a relocation sign-on bonus or what could potentially be a more comprehensive relocation package, a mix of both with some...
With the rise of global mobility over the next few years, global mobility specialists and human resource professionals who deal with expatriates are beginning to consider the use of Global Mobility Management solutions (GMMs). As defined by Aragon Research, GMMs are business applications that oversee and...
A host country’s employee or boss can be unwelcoming to foreigners but unfathomable as it may sound, your assignee, a foreign national who was once used to living within his own culture, may also have ingrained biases and prejudices against other beliefs, work practices, and...