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DATE: 19 Jun 2013
CATEGORY: Assignments

Technology and global mobility – reducing admin and avoiding hidden costs

Learn how MOVE Guides reduces HR admin, improves oversight and helps reduce hidden costs in your lump sum program. Lump Sum programs offer real cost savings versus traditional assignment packages.  In theory they also reduce the administrative burden of the mobility team as the planning for the move gets shifted to the employee.  Unfortunately, in the majority of cases that we see – there are huge hidden costs of lump sum programs that don’t show up directly on the P&L – but impact the efficiency of the employees and effectiveness of mobility teams. The first main challenges facing HR teams when administering a lump sum program is around the duty of care.  Let’s face it, many mobility professionals are hesitant to cut a check to a transferee and ask them to show up in a new country with no further input from HR.  Most  mobility professionals go out of their…

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DATE: 18 Jun 2013
CATEGORY: Assignments

Cross Border Hiring – Why It Will Keep Growing

Companies are increasingly hiring from global talent pools, meaning continued growth in long distance moves for new hires.  Learn how MOVE Guides supports this demographic.   We live in an increasingly globalized world, with mass connectivity and a generation born in an era of frequent international travel and global interaction via social media. According to our research, 93% of Gen Y participants want to live and work abroad, and indeed many expect this to be a requirement in order to further their careers.   Within this context, if companies are to prosper and increase their global reach, it is essential that people as well as products can cross borders quickly, efficiently and easily. A mobile talent pool is an essential part of a successful global business and the ability to transfer skills across borders and draw from a larger talent pool is growing in importance.   According to Mercer’s 2020…

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DATE: 17 Jun 2013
CATEGORY: Employee Experience

How Live Chat is Revolutionizing Employee Relocation Experience

Employees love it and it takes lots of off HR’s plate.  Learn how live chat is transforming employee relocation support and how MOVE Guides is leading the charge.   Live chat? We have probably all used it without noticing in the past. There has even been lots of press about live chat as of late. What is this miracle innovation and what does it do? Simply put, live chat is an online communications application designed specifically for providing assistance to site visitors in real time. A visitor to a site stumbles upon a problem or has a question about a service. In some cases a live chat window appears as if by magic, prompted by analysis of the users activity on the site. At other times the user need only click on a small button to initiate a chat. Once initiated, a casual conversation can begin with the support professional…

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DATE: 14 Jun 2013
CATEGORY: Expat Life

Supporting US Domestic Moves

As more and more young professionals move around the US for new jobs, MOVE Guides offers a new way to support their lump sum moves. Increasing numbers of young professionals are seeking any opportunity to live and work in a new city – especially new cities in their home country – and companies are more than happy to provide these high performing employees with lump sum payments to make it happen. MOVE Guides offers a new way to support these lump sum moves. While opportunities to relocate are received with huge enthusiasm, moving employees domestically can be just as challenging as moving them internationally. The administrative burden, logistical coordination, and disruption to employee productivity mean that each party has lots to lose when a move goes awry. At MOVE Guides, our team of serial expats know that moving to a new city within the same country can be just as…

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DATE: 13 Jun 2013
CATEGORY: Employee Experience

Startups – You Don’t Need the Admin of Employee Relocation

You’re a high-growth startup and there’s so much to do!  Learn how to take the admin and logistics of relocating staff off your plate with MOVE Guides. Global mobility is not easy for start-ups. In the never-ending quest to expand markets and access talent pools even small companies are being forced to consider mobility programs. According to international consultancy firm Mercer, 70% of employers expect to increase short-term overseas assignments in 2013. This figure is even more exaggerated in the cut throat world of start-ups. However, the real cause for concern for a start-up is the time and resources needed to manage a global mobility program. Consider the following situation, a start-up moves approximately five people a year. Each person needs to research their destination, find housing, book flights, ship belongings, and so on. The cumulative time spent by the employee can run into weeks of man hours. For a…

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DATE: 12 Jun 2013
CATEGORY: Assignments

Reducing Admin in Global Mobility

Headaches, spread sheets, diary notes and more.  Learn how MOVE Guides helps reduce the admin for your lump sum moves.   One of the biggest headaches we hear about from the Global Mobility teams we speak to is the endless administration associated with managing their expat talent pool. For most, their team is lean and under-resourced, yet they are faced with the mammoth task of coordinating everything from initial sign off to making sure shipments arrive at the correct destination.   It’s no mean feat, and with the sheer volume of information and paperwork, it becomes a mission to filter and file relevant emails and documents, and ensure that they can be accessed quickly and efficiently when required. The endless diary notes to remember to follow up with employee and relocation services can begin to take over, preventing mobility experts from performing and developing their core functions. It is no…

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Translating the Consumer Web to the Business Web
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DATE: 11 Jun 2013
CATEGORY: Expat Life

Bringing the Best of the Consumer Web to Corporate Relocation

Many of the most popular features of consumer websites have not made it to corporate relocation solutions.  Learn how MOVE Guides is innovating to bring your employees a modern relocation and technology experience.   For the past decade the consumer web raced ahead and developed faster than most of us could even imagine. Sites such as Facebook, Amazon, and countless others have shown how complex problems and user engagement can be solved with good technology. These sites, and others like them, have made significant inroads into their own markets. In the world of business this entire phenomenon passed by and few noticed, until now. There is an entire universe of high value features, business models, and practices that can be transferred from consumer facing operations to business facing operations. At MOVE Guides we’re proud to be one of the trend setters in applying the best of the consumer web to…

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DATE: 10 Jun 2013
CATEGORY: Employee Experience

Improve the employee relocation experience with modern technology

“Why is it so easy to plan an international holiday, but so difficult to move abroad?” – MOVE Guides CEO, Brynne Herbert Over the last 20 years, most industries have been transformed by the internet.  Everything from journalism, travel, photography, shopping, medicine and more have seen the way in which we ask questions, get answers and spend our money change dramatically.  We’ve seen the shift from: The large printed maps to GPS that automatically gives us turn by turn directions when they need them Travel agents and outdated guidebooks in the library to real-time reviews and price comparisons for hotels, flights and cars Cassettes to CDs to MP3s to streaming music And much more As a Gen Y expat myself, I first experienced the challenge of moving abroad in 2007 – well into the digital age of the internet, but only weeks after the launch of the original iPhone and…

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