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...
Some people can’t just stay put. In the movie “Up in the Air,” George Clooney’s character didn’t know how to quit traveling and just stay in one place. There are real people like that. Professional athletes do this all the time all year long. But...
In the anthology film, “Paris Je T’’aime,” the last film, “14e arrondissement” takes only six minutes to tell us the heart-breaking story of an American who finds herself enjoying another culture other than her own--that of Paris, France. She drinks, dines and takes in all...
There was a time when human resources managed all the hiring processes, but the complexities of global mobility lately has made even procurement make their own adjustments. Now it’s not unusual to find both divisions working together to hire the best global talents out there....
Mobility is rapidly evolving that a term called purpose-based assignments is nothing new anymore to HR-turned-global-mobility specialists. And if you’re new to this and wondering why there’s the word “global” seemingly attached to mobility specialists all the time, it’s because the world is flat, thanks...
Once deemed a low-volume activity, international assignments have certainly peaked with many global mobility professionals these days constantly on their toes, making sure the talents they recruit are well taken care of in a business environment that has become increasingly global. Growth areas like the BRIC...
Technology helps global mobility specialists deploy talents, but how does one use it? Let us count the ways by which Pwc has done it over the years. It also boils down to being cost efficient as possible. It’s what the firm calls future-proofing your mobility...
By Dennis Clemente Not too long ago, multinationals run global offices like nobody else’s business. They hired people from every corner of the world, if they were not setting up shop at least. Then the new tech economy happened and introduced many new players, all eager...