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You Know that You Need an Employee Relocation Management Company: What Should You Do Next?
Choosing a new Relocation Management Company (RMC) to manage your global mobility and relocation program can feel like a daunting task. It’s important that you choose an RMC that best fits your workplace culture, employee needs, company budget, and work style. You’re...
Providing Mortgage Support to Transferring Employees in Today’s Housing Market
As companies compete for talent, it's important that your organization offers the right mortgage support to transferring employees. Whether it’s a new candidate or an existing employee, don’t lose talent because your organization isn’t offering the same or more...
Relocating Employees Can be Challenging: How to Reduce Costs & Keep Employees Happy
What if we told you there was a way to reduce your transferee’s household goods moving claims, save organizational costs, and provide better customer service? Improved customer service means on-time deliveries/pick-ups and happier employees. To accomplish all this,...
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The Best Types of Expat Assignments for your Mobility Program
Finding the right person for an open position can be difficult, so when you find that perfect fit you’ll do what it takes to get them to their new location, even if that new location is abroad. However, relocating someone internationally has never been an easy task…
Six Tips for Relocating Employees that Attract & Retain Talent
Employee relocations or even temporary assignments to a new location can be complicated and stressful for your employees. You’re not just shifting employees from one location to another, you’re uprooting them from their community, friends, extended family, and...
What is a Buyer Value Option (BVO) Home Sale Program & How Does it Compare to a Guaranteed Buyout (GBO) Home Sale Program?
In a Buyer Value Option program (BVO), the employee is responsible for listing their home for sale, with marketing assistance from the Relocation Management Company (RMC). The employee must secure an outside buyer willing to purchase the home at a fair market value. A...
Offering Tax Assistance & Tax Equalization Ensures Higher Employee Retention & Improved Recruitment Outcomes
Many companies are struggling to find and retain good talent. It’s important that benefits, including relocation and assignment benefits, are very competitive and offer employees what they need to have the best possible experience as they uproot their lives and move –...
Collect Key Data Points for Success
Read our article as featured in International HR Adviser. At its core, employee relocation is a human resource benefit and like all HR benefits, from health insurance to retirement accounts, organizations need timely and insightful feedback from employees. Click here
Buckle Up this Summer for Household Goods Move Challenges: Plan Ahead!
Arriving just in time for summer, a familiar story; the household goods industry will have a difficult time over the summer months meeting consumer demand. While COVID-19 impacted how household goods suppliers had to perform their services, the need for moving was...
Is Your Company Managing the Emotional Toll of an Employee Relocation?
Moving is often considered a top life stressor, so what happens when you add in a few other big stressors like buying/selling a home and starting a different job in a new location? How stressful might that be for a transferring employee? More importantly, how are your...
Why should you bother reviewing your relocation policy?
Even though many companies now allow all-remote or hybrid work, they are still relocating employees to fill needed roles and help attract/retain top talent. To be successful, your organization needs a well-prepared and comprehensive relocation policy in place to help...
Business Expansion During a Pandemic: Meeting Global Mobility Needs
As Covid restrictions have eased in most parts of the world, many businesses are back to functioning normally. We all know too well the huge strain the pandemic put on businesses worldwide as some companies did not survive. Like most organizations, WHR Group, Inc....
Win in the War for Talent: Attracting and Retaining Employees in Hybrid and Remote Work Models
Are the hybrid and remote working models here to stay? Countless studies have shown that employees want the ability to work remotely, at least part of the time. One study showed 83% of workers prefer a hybrid model. Another survey, by the Pulse of the American Worker,...