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The Best Types of Expatriate Assignments for Your Mobility Program
Offering long-term, short-term or extended business international assignments can be a powerful tool for retaining (and attracting) top talent. Read the blog to determine the best option for your mobility program.
What is a Buyer Value Option (BVO) Home Sale Program?
BVO (Buyer Value Option) is a home sale program which is designed to help relocating employees sell their homes quickly and efficiently without the company taking ownership of the property.
Temporary Housing Pricing Benchmark – Ask an Expert!
WHR Global’s 2024 Temporary Housing Report provides average pricing for 1–3 bedroom housing in 140+ cities, aiding global mobility teams in cost benchmarking.
The Best Types of Expatriate Assignments for Your Mobility Program
Offering long-term, short-term or extended business international assignments can be a powerful tool for retaining (and attracting) top talent. Read the blog to determine the best option for your mobility program.
What is a Buyer Value Option (BVO) Home Sale Program?
BVO (Buyer Value Option) is a home sale program which is designed to help relocating employees sell their homes quickly and efficiently without the company taking ownership of the property.
Temporary Housing Pricing Benchmark – Ask an Expert!
WHR Global’s 2024 Temporary Housing Report provides average pricing for 1–3 bedroom housing in 140+ cities, aiding global mobility teams in cost benchmarking.
Music on the Moving Mind
Even if your transferring employee is excited about their upcoming move, relocation is stressful. Whether they're cleaning their current home to prepare for listing, finding a new school for the kids, or dealing with movers, all tasks, large and small, quickly become...
Reducing Global Mobility Risks When Relocating Employees
Finding the perfect candidate is just the beginning. You then have to make sure that person is up for the move, because failed relocations can occur, and they are costly. By evaluating and addressing these four risk factors, you’ll give your employees a better chance...
Overcoming Five Employee Concerns to Relocation
Making any life changing decision requires thought and consideration, especially if that decision is taking you across the country, or even across the globe! It’s easy to forget that even the most excited employees have concerns about the relocation process. Frequent...
Cultivating a Culture of Teamwork
Cultural training for employees who will be working internationally is perhaps more important today than ever before. For many companies, there has been a significant paradigm shift away from the strictly bi-cultural focus of such training, opting instead for an...
What’s Trending: Global Mobility GOOOAAAALS!
Whether you’re a fan or not, I'm sure you've seen that the 2018 FIFA World Cup begins this week. In many ways, soccer (or football, depending on where you’re located!) is a complex game of techniques, rules (aka the Laws of the Game), and controversies. However, when...
Survey Fatigue: It’s Real and It’s Here
Do you ever pay attention to the onslaught of survey requests you receive daily? I’ve started to – and I must say, it’s a lot! When I buy something, there’s almost always a survey request on the receipt. A few days after a flight, a survey request from the airline...
“But we’ve always done it this way”
How many times have you heard “but, we’ve always done it this way!” proclaimed in your organization regarding your processes or service offerings? Change is hard. And regardless of whether we’re motivated by our negative emotions, or simply underestimate the process...
Partnering with your RMC – The Importance of Cultural Fit
Selecting a Relocation Management Company, or RMC, is about more than just finding the right supplier for your company; it’s about finding the right partner. Your RMC is going to be in direct communication with your relocating employees, which means they should share...
State of the Canadian Housing Market
Overvaluation and price acceleration continue to plague the Canadian housing market. According to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), the housing market continues to have a high degree of vulnerability for the seventh consecutive year. The Housing...
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