Pulse Survey

Inbound US International Assignments

In recent years a number of industry surveys, including Brookfield GRS annual Global Relocation Trends Survey, have identified the United States as a challenging international assignment location. While immigration is often cited as the primary challenge, additional issues identified by corporate mobility managers centered around cultural adjustment, location specific difficulties and other matters related to transition. This issue of the Pulse Survey Report provides the participating companies’ perspective on what they consider to be the top four adjustment pain points for employees going on assignment to the United States. Further findings illustrate some current creative approaches the participating companies are using to assist the
assignees and their families along with perceived areas for improvement of
mobility programs to help companies better mitigate these issues going forward.

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Preparing for the Global Economic Upturn

As the global financial outlook begins showing signs of stabilization, the Brookfield GRS Consulting Services team set out to examine how companies’ mobility teams are Preparing for the Global Economic Upturn. The respondent reported that recruiting and retaining talent rank highly as key corporate objectives and that many of the reactive policy changes that were made during the initial economic decline have since become permanent parts of the companies’ mobility programs. This issue of the Pulse Survey Report provides a more in depth analysis of these and other findings and offers some key tips gleaned from respondents to assist companies who are undertaking similar analysis of their programs.

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Mobility Reporting for Executives

The first Pulse Survey looked at Mobility Reporting for Executives with findings revealing that most companies feel having an effective communication and reporting practice to executives is critical to providing a strategic picture illustrating the impact and benefit of mobility to an organization. The challenges, however, lie in how mobility management reports are used, how the information is disseminated and what criteria are used to determine and effectively communicate information that is of most concern to a particular audience. This issue of the Pulse Survey Summary Report examines these challenges and offers tips to help organizations effectively utilize the data captured from mobility reporting for maximum benefit.

Full copy of the report is available in our Knowledge Center.