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Talent Mobility: Host-Based Compensation Approaches
This recent article from Mercer explores the shift from traditional home-based compensation models ...
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International Remote Working: Definitions, Trends and Evolution
This quick reference document from Mercer provides some helpful definitions of different types of ...
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Cost of Living City Ranking 2024
According to Mercer’s 2024 cost-of-living data, Hong Kong, Singapore and Zurich are currently ...
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AI and Mobility Mercer 2024
At a time when resources and budgets are limited, technology is increasingly seen by HR as a ...
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Insured Benefits For Internationally Mobile Employees
Mercer's survey collected from 22 industry sectors provides a unique opportunity to compare your ...
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Two minutes to manage assignee repatriation successfully
Repatriation is a major issue for organizations and a fundamental part of the overall assignment ...
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Global Risks Insight Report 2024 - The World Economic Forum
Last year’s Global Risks Report warned of a world that would not easily rebound from ...
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Balancing Assignment Flexibility with Duty of Care
Balancing the flexibility of your assignments with duty-of-care obligations is a complex ...
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LGBTQ+ health and well-being: Taking pride in an inclusive workplace
As many organizations have already recognized, diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) are ...
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Building and sustaining a thriving talent marketplace
Successful talent marketplace deployments often begin with a specific use case or business problem, ...
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Health on Demand 2023
Health and well-being is a top concern for many CEOs and CFOs and is influencing their 2023 ...
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Rethinking what we need from work
A guide to employees’ most pressing needs and how your organisation can meet them based on ...
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Latest trends in the drive for diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI) for your workforce
As many organizations have already recognized, diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) are ...
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What does the future of work look like for women?
Not as bright as we’d like! Lagging flexible work options, inequities in domestic and ...
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Host-based compensation approaches revisited
After using home-based (balance sheet) approaches for international assignees for decades, ...
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Levelling up with mobility technology - case study
An organizations mobility platform can have a “make or break” impact on the employee ...
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How to take your benefits strategy to the next level through active management
With the rise of global medical trend back to pre-pandemic levels, a cost-of-living crisis, and ...
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The time is now: Preparing for the economy of longevity
The growing recognition of the impact of longevity is disrupting the labor market, as ...
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Work’s Great Reboot
As the world emerges from COVID-19, new workforce challenges — including talent shortages, ...
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The Good Work Framework: A new business agenda for the future of work
The nature of work has been changing through the impact of three long-term trends: technological ...
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Global Mobility Management Strategies for Small and Medium-sized Companies
Having the right global mobility solutions in place is just as important for smaller businesses as ...
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Global Talent Trends 2022-2023
The fragility of the post-pandemic recovery shows that the era of complexity is not over. Living in ...
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Pay for Skills Survey Report 2022-2023
The latest Pay for Skills survey results are in. They offer insights that will help accelerate the ...
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Aligning talent management and global mobility
We increasingly hear that “mobility should be better connected with talent management.” ...
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The Global Risks Report 2023
The 18th edition of the Global Risks Report considers this backdrop of simmering geopolitical ...
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International remote working: from buzzword to practice
Working remotely is a way for companies to attract and motivate talent and more generally to offer ...
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How can Risk and HR collaborate to build business resilience?
With economic pressures and challenges in attracting and retaining talent with the right skills at ...
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Three successful initiatives to contain and optimize benefit costs
The pervasive labor shortage means that employers need to do more to attract and retain talent. ...
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Next steps for global mobility management
Global mobility management has rarely evolved as fast as in recent times. In a couple of years, ...
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Getting started with international remote working and virtual assignments
The extensive use of remote working during the pandemic has forced organizations to reimagine their ...
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Global talent trends: The future of work and mobility
The voices of the nearly 11,000 C-suite executives, HR leaders, and employees who contributed to ...
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Managing benefit plans in an era of soaring inflation
Many organizations are now structuring their 2023 benefits strategies — a core component of ...
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Building a talent mobility culture
The role of mobility is shifting from fixing issues to sourcing and developing talent. In this new ...
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How will Web3 impact the future of work?
The global pandemic accelerated the digital transformation of work and the work experience. ...
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How employee benefits mitigate talent risks
Organizations must focus on flexible working and personalized benefits if they want to attract, ...
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How can global mobility strike the right flexibility balance?
The question of exactly how flexible global mobility should be has existed as long as the programs ...
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Addressing cultural issues in the new world of work
Many factors influence the success of international assignments. Some are linked to compliance, ...
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Protect your People's Purchasing Power
Managing international employees' expectations in times of high ...
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Hong Kong maintains its status as costliest city for expats
Mercer's 2022 Cost of Living Survey, which looks at the world’s costliest cities for ...
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Working from Anywhere - a differentiation in the War for Talent?
The extensive use of remote working during the pandemic has forced organizations to re-imagine ...
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Top Health & Benefits Trends & Challenges in Emerging Markets
Finding ways to look after the well-being of your employees while also protecting the financial ...
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Four Ways to Effectively Communicate in Times of Crisis
“Unprecedented times” is a phrase we’ve tired of hearing. But the fact remains ...
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Is your Employee Value Proposition Still Relevant?
We are in the midst of a workplace revolution. The pandemic has altered almost all aspects of the ...
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Five ways to break workplace bias.
The theme for this year's International Women's Day is #BreakTheBias where the IWD community ...
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Talent Management and Mobility Training Module
As companies review their mobility approaches to deal with the HR implications of the coronavirus ...
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No Transformation Without Culture
Culture is more important than ever. Whatever transformational challenge an organization faces, we ...
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Retaining Mobile Employees: Why you need to clarify expectations and set priorities
The "great resignation" is making headlines all over the world. The causes and scale of this ...
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Talent Management and Mobility
Mobility is not just about relocation management and needs to be dicussed in the context of the ...
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Employee Benefits and Technology Trends Report
Organizations, HR teams and the employee benefits they provide were stress-tested to the extreme ...
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The Challenges of International Remote Working
Remote working has been introduced as a temporary measure during the pandemic, but the debate ...
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Managing International Foreign Hires - policies, processes and best practices
Hiring foreign employees for permanent overseas assignments has long been part of how companies do ...
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Health on Demand - Delivering the Benefits Employees Want Now
This report sets out the results of the Mercer Marsh Benefits Health on Demand Survey which looks ...
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Three Steps to getting your global mobility function tech-ready
The right software solutions can be transformational for global mobility teams, enabling them to ...
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Mercer – A Holistic Approach to Well-Being for International Assignees
Forward thinking HR professionals are now considering the expat experience from a holistic ...
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How is Remote Working affecting your Company Culture?
Many companies now plan to continue remote working for the foreseeable future. But is working from ...
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Become the Benchmark to get - and keep - the workforce you need
Making the unique needs of your own hourly workforce a new benchmark to consider provides the ...
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ESG: Sustainable at the Core
To nurture a brighter future for people and planet, we need to pick up the pace on sustainability. ...
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Building a Diverse and Inclusive Workforce
Despite the great benefits that DE&I in mobility programmes can bring to both individuals and ...
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The Value of Mobility: measuring talent mobility outcomes
As costs come under scrutiny this article examines how the benefits of mobility can be measured and ...
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Sustainable Talent Mobility
The sustainability concept and ESG analyses (environmental, social, and governance) are often used ...
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Resetting the future of work - disruption and renewal in a post-COVID world
As organizations navigate through COVID-19, the concept of the new normal inches closer to reality ...
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New shape of work podcast - flexing to support growth at Pandora
One of the key trends resulting from the pandemic has been the emergence of flexible working as a ...
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Six Ways to Better Serve your Mobile Workforce
A new generation of technology solutions, specifically designed to meet the needs of decentralized ...
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Turning health risk into value: Are your health and well-being approaches inclusive?
Are your health and well-being approaches inclusive? Although 81% of employers are focused on ...
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What they didn't tell you about talent mobility management
We would like to believe that mobility management decisions are based on rational thoughts and ...
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Turning health risk into value: well- being
Covid -19 has accelerated many trends that were already underway before the pandemic. Employers ...
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Leaders must actively 'choose to challenge' gender inequality
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion are now at centre stage and organisationshave a unique ...
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Practical Steps to Consider for the New Realities of Global Mobility
Do you want to move your mobility function to the next level? If you want your team to become more ...
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Talent Mobility & People Analytics Collaboration Networks
Formal processes and organisation charts don’t tell the whole story about how teams work. ...
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Global Mobility Policy Flexibility in Practice - Part 1 & Part 2
A successful global mobility program needs to work well for both the assignees and the company. But ...
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Four Steps in Revisiting Mobile Talent Competition
The scope of global mobility is rapidly shifting from expatriate management to a more comprehensive ...
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Revisiting cost drivers to make mobility affordable for small and midsize mobility programs
Cost continues to be the primary challenge that small and mid size global organisations seek to ...
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Talent Mobility: Compensation Dilemmas
Many HR professionals fail to appreciate the full impact of recent business changes resulting from ...
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2 Minutes to Improve Assignee Well-being
Organisations support their mobile employees with comprehensive reward and relocation packages but ...
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Expatriate Management: Women in the Workforce
It has been well documented that organisations need to consider the disparity in gender when ...
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Virtual Assignments: Cultural and Inclusion Issues
Many factors influence thefeasibility and successof virtual assignments. One of these factors is ...
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Assessing the Feasibility of Virtual Assignments: a Checklist
With enforced changing work patterns, how can we leverage this new-found agility and retainvirtual ...
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Managing International Employees Working from Anywhere - Part 1: Redefining Mobility
The face of Global Mobility is changing. These changes require, above all, a change of mindset and ...
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Managing International Employees Working from Anywhere - Part 2: The Different Dimensions of International Virtual Working
Remote working has become the temporary new normal for a large number of assignees as companies ...