This survey will help you find out how companies have introduced flexibility in their global mobility policies, presenting the prevalent approaches and how successful they have been.
Flexibility in mobility packages – balancing employees’ expectations with consistency and equity
The fast evolution of assignees’ demographics, assignment patterns, and technology is increasingly prompting mobility managers to adopt a degree of flexibility in their mobility policies. Mercer's 2019 Flexible Mobility Policies Survey sought to find out how companies have introduced flexibility in their Mobility Policies and whether their approach has been successful:
- To what extent have companies introduced flexibility in their Global Mobility policies?
- Which benefits are considered as core (i.e. non-negotiable) and which are flexible?
- What are the prevalent forms of flexible benefits provision (lump sums, possibility to choose between cash and benefits in kind, “cafeteria” approach, swapping benefits)?
- Who can benefit from the flexibility (assignee, business or both)?
- What are the implications of introducing flexible benefits in terms of administration?
- What are the pros and cons of having flexible policies?
- And much more.
Survey results now available
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Report highlights
Available in mid-December, the report from our Flexible Mobility Policies Survey presents a closer look at these overall findings:
- Thirty-seven percent of survey participants reported having flexible mobility policies currently, and another 43% hoped to introduce some flexibility into their mobility policies/practices.
- More than 70% consider that introducing flexible benefits has resulted in cost efficiency.
- Effective tracking and reporting was rated as the most challenging aspect of introducing flexibility in mobility policies.
- Flexibility is prevalently provided in the form of lump sums, their main advantage, according to 90% of the respondents who currently use them, being the attendant reduction in administration.
- The survey results showed that a higher proportion of respondents offered flexibility for the business (and other stakeholders) than for employees and (other stakeholders).
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Take part in this survey and receive:
- Preferential rate (1/3 of non-participant price) to buy the full report, including all survey results tables and executive summary
- Preferential access to custom cuts and benchmarking