You’ve spent a huge portion of your professional life handling the affairs of your peers as a human resource manager. You also spend a lot of your downtime reading up on the latest Chinese expansion into Africa or the connectivity challenges that are facing the...
Homesickness is one of the challenges foreign assignees face upon relocation to their new workplace, and acceptance in a culturally diverse society is one of the best support systems that a global mobility professional can rely on to help provide a solution. An Asian, European, and...
Any relocation for work, whether its Silicon Valley or other cities, can be a major adjustment for anyone, local or foreigner. Pressure can intensify if the assignee brings his spouse and children with him. At first glance, it seems like an ideal solution: the assignee...
Reading about the weather and the different seasons that happen in a different country is one thing; dealing with them everyday is another. Fortunately, Silicon Valley has an agreeable weather that hovers between 50-degree and 80-degree Fahrenheit the whole year-round. Still, global mobility professionals would do...
Amusement and recreational parks are reinventing themselves to draw in even larger crowds. With a more enthusiastic customer base, employment is bound to increase. Innovation experts who have a gift in understanding what makes people happy will find that their talents are in demand in...
How do global mobility specialists deal with housing when it happens simultaneously? And when we talk about simultaneous here, we’re not talking 1 or 2 people but 100 to 200 people. It’s not a dare, mind you. For that number of assignees moving in, you’ll...
Is there really a way for global mobility specialists to save money when you have incoming and move-in transferees and you want only the best for them? That is, you found them a great job, but you know that for them to keep liking that...
When your international assignee tells you the information they found online (read: Google) about housing varies from your claims (misread as: pricey), what do you do? Right at bat, it’s imperative that you point out how online rates differ when it comes to housing expatriates....
How does one handle cost-of-living allowance (COLA) or goods and services differential when policies can vary from one company to another? For global mobility professionals already swamped with recruitment work, getting an audit and advisory firm can help you wade through the complexity of it...
Moving to the United States from another country may just be a great career move, but what if doubt creeps up on your assignee -- and he realizes he misses home, even if his family is joining in a year or two, as you promised? It’s...