The global workforce has become easier to access and significantly harder to manage. That tension defines 2026. On one side, organizations are building distributed teams across borders at unprecedented speed, enabled by artificial intelligence and the normalization of remote work. On the other, the systems...
The pandemic was undoubtedly the most disruptive event in the past decade. It halted businesses, closed borders, and created a massive delay in the global supply chain. However, things seem to be looking up. With vaccination rates going up, the travel and leisure industry has begun...
Beyond reading the news for coronavirus updates, how much does anyone know about what’s happening in the global mobility industry and how it’s making adjustments for business travelers and expats in general? It hasn’t been easy, but those working in the recruitment and travel industry know...
As countries and their airlines grapple with the impact of health protocols on flights, passengers, and crew members, experts in the industry are pointing out that business travel is reinventing itself slowly but significantly. As the economy rebounds, many corporations would focus on regional domestic travel...
Business travel is strategic investment for companies, one study after another posits, including the Harvard Business Review survey of 587 executives and managers. Instead of seeing it as a drain on company resources, business travel has been increasingly seen as a strategic investment and a form...
Corporate global (or domestic) business travel does not have to be excruciating. In fact, it can be enjoyable for both assignee and global mobility manager alike. What only makes the whole thing give the latter pause is an apprehension that stems from a mixture of reasons:...
Traveling might be the in-thing for younger assignees who want to explore new cities and savor exotic adventures. But the actual process and its different phases might be a small ordeal for some of them. Who among us had not endured our fair share of delayed...
Corporate travel has never been more emboldened as it is now by today’s consumer travel tools and technologies. More people are taking their commercial ambitions on a global scale, even challenging mindsets about how their wandering ways are tied to the combo of work and...
Once in a while, the hiring company will have to send his foreign assignee, who is currently working in its office in the United States, to a business trip to another city or country. And while most of these destinations are relatively safe, the issuance...