Making foreign and American talents adjust to the companies that hire them are enough to keep global mobility specialists on their toes. Assignees have to be both a good corporate and culture fit that another concern is overlooked: generation gap. Tech-savvy, social-media-oriented millennials will make up...
Global mobility specialists are reeling just a bit from the couple of shock waves that the industry has recently received from the Trump administration’s emerging policies -- or positions -- on immigration. The first salvo came when the new government announced that it would slow...
Have a smart home device in every room like a coffee maker that automatically brews your favorite drink and then greets you a cheery good morning as you power yourself up for work. Or how about a smart refrigerator that automatically notifies you via text...
Many arguments have been made about the advantages and benefits the H-1B visa have provided the American economy, but one fact still has to be mentioned. That pillar of American sports culture known as the National Basketball Association (NBA), would have played a very different...
It’s a situation that can give a global mobility specialist a panic attack. There’s an outbreak of epidemic in one of your allied countries, or flights have been grounded in one of its cities because of a terrorist attack. You learn that one of the...
Proximity to job opportunities and digital hubs. A taste of what the locals experience. A touch of magic introduced by today’s technology. In a nutshell, those are the trends developing in the global service apartment industry in 2017. Global mobility specialists should be on the...
The global mobility specialist’s work does not end once his assignee starts reporting to work in his new company -- in fact, it has just begun. The success of the assignee will reflect on the global mobility specialist’s choice of recruit, and perhaps can extend...
The millennial workforce is about to get even younger. And just when you thought you had them figured out (or still not), new studies have broken them down into two categories: the Gen-Ys born from roughly the late 1980s to the late 1990s and the...
“How much of my pay do I really bring home after taxes?” That is the question voiced in its various forms by employees or assignees alike. Ultimately, a large part of an assignee’s satisfaction at work boils down to how much of their hard-earned pay they...
Companies known as “employers of record” (EOR) started garnering attention a few years ago when corporations started to outsource human resource (HR) work to them that was related to freelancers and project-based hires. According to CPA Practice Advisor, these EOR were given tasks to form...