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Global Relocation Trends - Spotlight Reports

To gauge the impact of current challenging times on international mobility, Brookfield GRS conducted a series of in-depth interviews with senior international mobility professionals from 17 organizations in the cross section of industries and, further, eight international mobility professionals representing companies from the financial services sector.

The resulting white papers examine the responses of these global companies to current economic conditions, the changes in the types of international assignment and assignment scrutiny, and discuss a range of different logics and considerations regarding incorporation of more flexibility into existing mobility programs.


International Mobility: Impact of the Current Economic Climate

Our research shows that although the current economic conditions represent powerful forces, it would be wrong to assume that they will have an equal impact on all international mobility functions and programs. We find that more critical questions are being asked about whether an expatriate is really needed, how teams should be designed, if local talent or sub-contracting options exist, and how much time is needed to deliver on assignment or project objectives. A more flexible but realistic thought process is being applied to the challenge of resourcing internationally.

A complimentary copy of the International Mobility: Impact of the Current Economic Climate report is available in the Knowledge Center.

International Mobility: Introducing Flexibility into Policy Structures

As we move through the recession, companies are continuing to look for innovation in how international assignments are structured and managed. In particular, many international mobility functions are responding to explicit requests from the business to build more flexibility into their programs. This white paper takes a closer look at how this is being managed and what the major challenges are when introducing more flexibility.

A complimentary copy of the International Mobility: Introducing Flexibility into Policy Structures report is available in the Knowledge Center.

International mobility in the Financial Services Sector: The Challenges of Individualized Flexibility

The financial services sector has not experienced a trading environment similar to that currently being witnessed for a generation - the broader impact on business strategies moving forward, including global mobility, has been considerable.

Through a series of interviews with the mobility leaders at eight world’s leading companies in this sector, we set out to investigate whether this current environment is forcing their hand towards a more flexible approach to the way in which they manage mobility. Is introducing greater flexibility in the hope of ultimately reducing program costs a false dawn? What were the major challenges experienced by those who have implemented or are in the process of implementing greater flexibility?

A complimentary copy of International mobility in the Financial Services Sector: The Challenges of Individualized Flexibility report is available in the Knowledge Center.

Previous research available in the Knowledge Center