What do we really know about millennials? Do they really care most about the pursuit of mission, varied experience, continuous learning, entrepreneurial opportunity, and work relationships --- and less about traditional rewards of pay and hierarchical positions? Mercer’s Haig Nalbantian, co-leader of Mercer’s Workforce Sciences Institute...
The face of the global assignee has been getting younger and younger over the years. Not only that, they are getting top or senior positions earlier than most other expats with decades of experience. By younger, even twentysomething millennials and Gen-Z siblings are getting a...
The millennial workforce is about to get even younger. And just when you thought you had them figured out (or still not), new studies have broken them down into two categories: the Gen-Ys born from roughly the late 1980s to the late 1990s and the...
Global mobility specialists will have to take the lead in encouraging their leaders to invest in language-learning courses for their talents. Assignees hired from other countries would need to augment their English-language skills, while employees who have skills and interests in linguistics can be trained...
For U.S. companies, corporate staff relocation is fast becoming a norm, and no longer an exception. The stakes are going high, though. Now there are even lump sum relocation packages which doesn’t sound so crazy. It’s considered a smart, strategic move for organizations. In one...