Management books tend to depict talent mobility management as a well-defined, orderly journey to develop competitive policies while providing a red carpet experience to highly valued mobile employees. The day-to-day reality of a talent mobility manager is more complex and chaotic than that, but it is just as interesting and…

The debate about remote working that took HR by storm in 2020 remains a top priority for HR and mobility teams in 2021. At an international level, mobility managers are pondering whether “virtual assignments” will be replacing traditional expatriate assignments. Companies are making progress on implementing new guidelines, but the…

For years, global mobility has conjured images of complex relocation processes and expatriates receiving costly pay packages in the minds of managers. At the same time, many other forms of talent mobility have been happening within organizations: internal career mobility managed by talent management, job mobility lead by global expansion…

When applied to global HR and international talent management, the idea of agility can refer to many things: agility in resourcing (finding the right mix of buy, build and borrow talent), in policies ( introducing a degree of flexibility), or in the use of technology. From a practical perspective, being…

Repatriation is a major issue for organizations and a fundamental part of the overall assignment process, yet many companies neglect this process, in comparison to the effort spent on pre-assignment preparation. Companies should regularly reevaluate mobility policies to help retain and use newly-acquired skills and knowledge and re-integrate the assignees…

Talent mobility buzzwords always come in a mixed bag, including both highly relevant ideas that help us look at management practices in a different way and corporate neologisms that leave practitioners utterly puzzled. …

Here are seven practical ideas that will help you move your mobility management practices to the next level. …

HR teams face daunting challenges to mitigate the impact on the business of the Covid-19 crisis and manage the repatriation of a large part of their mobile workforces. HR will face fundamental questions about the future of talent mobility as organizations finally overcome the crisis. Will the number of international…

The pace of change in talent management and global HR in general keeps accelerating as technological innovation, new generations entering the workforce, and new practices are emerging. These ongoing changes bring a mixed bag of heightened employee expectations, hopes of better management practices and business uncertainties, and force HR teams…