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Here are five tips to help female leaders and expats establish credibility in a global business environment.

The pandemic crisis challenged HR and mobility teams like never before, but new models for global workforce management are emerging.

Your organization needs to modernize its mobility management program, but how do you get the funding? Our guide and case studies can help.

Learn how the principles of simplification, standardization, and structure can help you create a more effective global mobility digitalization strategy.

When dealing with international remote working, the list of potential issues is considerable. These five points can help you get going on the most critical ones.

How can mobility support the organization’s initiatives for improved diversity, equity, and inclusion?

Our latest survey shows limited progress on diversity in the globally mobile workforce, but can it withstand the economic fallout of the pandemic?

In the third article of this series, we detail how global talent brokering underpins globally distributed workforce management and the new roles that HR and mobility teams will have to play.

International virtual working is best defined as a part of the wider remote working picture in line with a company’s general practices regarding home offices and remote working.

Here we look at three companies where processes and technology are transforming the mobility function.

The evolution of mobility practices, the role of HR as talent broker, moving jobs to people, and the growing acceptance of virtual mobility offer a framework for understanding the state of global mobility.

Working virtually across cultures presents significant challenges, according to a recent survey from Mercer's partner for cultural awareness and training.

Here are six ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has amplified the need for companies to step up their diversity and inclusion efforts.

In our latest expert interview, His Excellency H.E. Hani Al Hamli discusses Dubai’s successful improvement of its quality-of-living standards over the years.

This point of view takes an in-depth look at the processes and technology transforming mobility across companies today.

The nature of talent mobility has been steadily evolving for years, with the pandemic quickening the adoption of some changes. It's time for a fresh look at what talent mobility means.

Ms. Gruszecka-Spychała details how Gdynia, Poland has remained a highly respected city with consistently a high-ranking standard of living.

The global pandemic shades this year's list of talent mobility buzzwords, but these trends were emerging well before the crisis.

Cultural differences and biases can be barriers to success for any type of assignment. Let's look at the main issues and methods for overcoming them.

How can you effectively use virtual assignments to meet global business development needs? Here are eight areas of focus to get you started.

Moving jobs to people is a new tool for companies to use in their global operations. Understand the pros and cons of virtual assignments, as well as the potential complications.

Highly mobile employees can face many forms of stress. How can you design a support program, get support from managment, and engage the assignees themselves?

Here we explore implementing policy flexibility effectively, including the common types, pay packages, risk of excessive flexibility, and how to mitigate them.

Here are seven dilemmas highlighting the disconnection between new business realities and pay practices for mobile talent and the international workforce in general.

Companies of all sizes face similar challenges in international HR, but the best way to meet them can vary. Here are tips to help smaller organizations find balanced solutions for their global staffing needs.

Changes in assignment patterns and employee expectations are driving mobility programs to develop more flexible policies, but how exactly are companies handling this? The results of Mercer's recent survey offer some insights.

Drawing on management trends in the fields of project management, product development, IT, and marketing, HR teams are learning to be more agile, reactive, and responsive to employees. Here are five areas of development to focus on in 2020.

Repatriation is a critical component of realizing the organizational talent development benefits of international assignments, but most companies don't manage it effectively. Here are six tips to help repatriations succeed.

The long-term mobility partners were awarded the Best Vendor Partnership at the 2019 Expatriate Management & Mobility Awards.

As 2019 draws to an end, here is a summary of the major trends that are reshaping mobile workforce management and will force HR teams to revisit their practices.