Picking the right school for the assignee’s child who has relocated with them to their new country of employment is a momentous decision. It is not something that should be overlooked or taken for granted. An assignee’s productivity and overall happiness rely greatly on how they,...
If you think long-distance commutes don’t affect our well-being, think again. Many assignees or VIPs may not realize the heavy toll exacted by long-distance commutes on their minds and bodies but to gauge its impact for a certain time period, think six months or even...
Family will always play a vital role in your assignee’s performance. How his or her kids adjust to the new country of employment can affect the way he does his job. A preteen who cannot find friends in the new middle school or an adolescent...
San Francisco in Northern California attracts a lot more of its fair share of talents -- and a lot of them are millennials -- for a lot of obvious reasons. The chance to become among the tech giants that shape the world is one of...
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...
In suspending the expedited processing of the H-1B Visa, which takes effect on April 3, representatives of the current administration attributed the reasons to a need to sort out and resolve the backlog of applications that go back as far as two years. Detractors of...
Out of all the cities in the United States, which do you think assignees prefer to work and live in? That’s New York City and San Francisco in California (and thereabouts). Outside of the U.S., Munich and Berlin in Germany come to mind. Then there’s two...
There are a lot of assignees who live and work in San Jose, Northern California mostly because of the Silicon-Valley connection. Facebook, Google, Microsoft and the dozens of tech startups continue to attract and employ talents from all parts of the world. These foreign nationals...
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...
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...