If your talent is thinking of moving to northern California, it’s common knowledge that some companies will usually shoulder some of relocation expenses. But there’s a difference lately. A lot more planning and preparation has come into play. Employees are spending more time educating themselves...
Part 2 of 2 Global mobility is set for a rebound. There will be a new normal, and in some cases, the industry will find an improved, more efficient and better prepared normal, according to a Crown World Mobility report. Global mobility is said to be...
Working from home these days is a juggling act like no other. There’s our job, if you still have one. Then there’s work we do for our homes, if you mean how to stave off distractions -- from the plants that have suddenly gained attention,...
Most company executives are taking notice of how human resources have become an active contributor to strategic business planning (69%) — especially in high People Dependency Index companies that are growing fast and formulating future business projections (60%), according to a study by Mercer. This is...
Many corporate apartments like the one you see in California Corporate Housing’s website look like the fancy spreads you see in Architectural Digest. In Silicon Valley, where tech workers’ salaries range from $200,000 to $500,000 or even higher, that is not unusual. Which is also...
For over the past three decades, globalization and technology-induced changes such as automation and digitization have altered US industry and jobs. Industry followers knew this was going to be the norm even before the pandemic hit us. In a McKinsey Global Institute report in 2015, the...
Global mobility is finally seeing its place in the corporate sun. Many American companies have looked outward as a project or a part-time department, determining for themselves the value it brings them as the work expands. As more companies establish their foothold in other countries,...
The advocates of blockchain technology claim that it will revolutionize the world the same way that the internet did. It will make global transactions more transparent and yet secure, speed up communications and the transfer of data, and do away with the dozens of inefficient...
“Learning should never stop --- especially not in the digital age.” That quote, or ideas similar to it, is very popular these days, at a time of disruption when the most relevant knowledge and skills of the present are threatened with obsolescence by tomorrow. But...
If your job can be easily explained, it can be automated. That’s Anders Sandberg of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute talking about artificial intelligence, which is accelerating the demise of some skills. The quote comes from the New Yorker piece, “Are Robots Competing for Your Job,” which...