A member-nation and one of the prime movers of the European Union decides to depart from it. A populist president that everybody predicted would lose will soon be sworn in as the Chief Executive of the United States of America. Nobody could have predicted these...
CEOs and other decision-makers in the C-suite can be forgiven for having a love-hate relationship with global mobility, specifically its precious task of finding, sourcing, and relocating talents. They admit seeing the value that this program adds to their bottom line; however, they do not...
Bringing their pets with them to their new location of employment is very important to some assignees -- and helping to see that no harm come to that fuzzy animal can become part of your job as a global mobility specialist. Expatriates see their beloved...
Big Data. That’s the buzzword of the digital business landscape today, and organizational disciplines like human resources are fast catching up. It streams through your company’s network of computers and databases every single day. Name it and Big Data has it: images, documents, voice and...
Are we all creatures of comfort? Well, global mobility specialists are finding out that it’s ok for many of talents or hires to move around if they are already used to traveling and relocating. Rotational assignments are losing their former “bad rep” as it has...
Only a decade ago, working overseas was considered either a desperate move for those seeking a better life, or a path to leadership for middle-aged executives who wanted to leave a legacy before retirement. Today, millennial employees, from their early twenties to their middle thirties,...
Talking about taxes to your assignee is like taking your child or even your spouse to the dentist. The details are never pleasant, and the procedure itself is arduous. However, the entire process is necessary if you are to ensure the wellbeing of your loved...
As one of our earlier California Corporate Housing blogs points out, the global mobility landscape is fast being peopled by millennial hires. Many of these twenty-to-thirty something talents are eager to claim assignments abroad, seeing in them opportunities for learning and advancement. They also provide...
Forget chatbots, apps, and Siri-like talking smart devices; the age of the robots is upon us. And while it will still take a generation or two before they can walk and talk like Star Trek’s Data, some of them can vacuum our carpets, cook our...
For many years, the running joke in Silicon Valley was that tech professionals can make $100,000 a year but still could not find a place to live. In the land of FANG (Facebook, Apple, Netflix, Google), that’s not surprising. The median home price in Cupertino,...