Last February 27, California Corporate Housing attended the conference hosted by the Corporate Housing Providers Association (CHPA) as it tackled the challenges in the housing business sector and the innovations and trends that industry players can expect to happen and should respond to. The event...
One of our previous blogs discussed the changing shape of the modern family, and it is a transformation that global mobility specialists should recognize and plan for. To recap, the traditional expatriate family that is typical composed of a nuclear unit of the father, mother, and...
One element that has made the Bay Area Mobility Management (BAMM) continue to thrive is that the members can celebrate their collective wins, despite (or perhaps because of) the spirit of healthy competition. That was the takeaway of the attendees in the recent BAMM annual...
Imagine if we lived in a world run by driverless cars that navigate us through crowded streets, smart security systems that filter strangers from familiar faces (computer vision, anyone?), and AI-powered garbage disposal units that advise us we haven’t done our trash segregation properly. That...
It is not surprising that technologies that can cut through boundaries are beginning to play an important part in global mobility. Long before the internet became a household fixture, companies had been sending their best people to other countries as expatriates. At the same time,...
An assignee and their beloved pet are not easily parted. This also holds true for almost all talents, especially expatriates who treat their dog or cat as family members. That’s why assignee and expatriate alike would welcome any compensation package that would allow them to...
Global mobility specialists will have to take the lead in encouraging their leaders to invest in language-learning courses for their talents. Assignees hired from other countries would need to augment their English-language skills, while employees who have skills and interests in linguistics can be trained...
Global mobility specialists are beginning to delegate some of their non-core functions in order to focus on their main areas of responsibility -- recruitment, talent development, and training. Administrative tasks can consume a lot of time. There is the amount of work to be done;...
The exit of Great Britain from the European Union and the unexpected victory of Donald Trump in the last presidential elections has signified to the watching world that change could come suddenly and unexpectedly. The rules of the game in the business landscape were equally...
Global mobility specialists have come to regard Northern California as arguably the best place wherein assignees can root themselves and thrive. The spirit of innovation, family-friendly cities and towns, as well as an environment that encourages a healthy lifestyle is alive and well here. Dynamic...