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REGIONAL RELOCATION GROUPS / TOP 7 TRENDS IN MOBILITY / MARKET: MANCHESTER, NH / DESTINATION: BAHRAIN Magazine of Worldwide ERC® June 2019 THE FUTURE OF HOW IT INTERSECTS WITH THE FUTURE OF WORK WHEN THE TALENT MAKES THE PICK THE CHANGING FACE OF RECRUITING AND TALENT MANAGEMENT MEDICAL ISSUES FACING INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNEES WHAT NOT TO DO IN A HOMESALE PROGRAM Are you ready for the workforce of the future? scan to request a Alternative workers are growing in number. Has solution your mobility program evolved to serve the different types of employees you’ll need to succeed? Aires offers customized solutions to help you rethink the traditional one-size-fi ts-all approach. ®2019 American International Relocation Solutions, LLC Contents FEATURES PG 46 WHEN THE TALENT MAKES THE PICK PG 54 MEDICAL ISSUES FACING By Diane McIntire INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNEES What makes job seekers choose one By Mollie Ivancic and Tom Paton, GMS company over another? A look at the Proactive steps to ensure healthy, changing face of recruiting and talent productive employees and families management. while on assignment. PG 52 MOBILITY MATTERS PG 60 REGIONAL RELOCATION GROUPS By Jon Ferguson Worldwide ERC®–recognized How offices have changed since the organizations and their leadership teams. heyday of the cube farm. PG 68 DESTINATION PROFILE: BAHRAIN By M. Diane McCormick Quality of life and affordability in the Persian Gulf. COVER STORY PG 40 HOW THE FUTURE OF WORK AND TRAVEL INTERSECT By Michael W. McCormick Increased mobility and business travel are investments aimed at growing companies’ bottom lines and the overall global economy. 2 Mobility | June 2019 Tech-led Solutions A Commitment to Diversity Attorney Access Top Tier Knowledge & Expertise Client-focused Approach To Service EXCELLENCE Let us help your organization reach its global potential. Today’s unpredictable immigration climate requires flexibility, experience, and a commitment to putting you first. Wherever your business takes you – in the U.S. or around the world – your Foster team reaches to deliver full immigration support. Visit us at fosterglobal.com to learn more. Contents COLUMNS Worldwide ERC® Karen Cygal PG 8 PERCEPTIONS Vice President, Product Development Leveraging Talent Chris Wilson, SGMS-T Vice President, Research & Education PG 30 GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS What Not to Do in a Homesale Program Kristin White Communications Consultant PG 35 MARKET SUMMARY EDITORIAL/DESIGN/MEDIA SALES Manchester, New Hampshire The YGS Group Amy Norcross, Managing Editor Steve Kennedy, Senior Editor Beth Hughes, Copy Editor Charity Fox, Account Manager DEPARTMENTS Melissa Wiedemann, Photo Editor PG 6 CALENDAR OF EVENTS Serena L. Spiezio, Creative Director Megan Meckley Hacker, Art Director PG 10 TIPS & TRENDS Jack Davidson, EVP Promoting a Culture of Well-Being in Your Zack Buchanan, National Sales Manager Workplace [email protected] +1 717 430 2291 By Gerrit Brouwer Heather Macaluso, Account Executive [email protected] PG 13 AROUND THE WORLDWIDE ERC® +1 717 430 2224 In Case You Missed It (ICYMI) PRINTING Worldwide ERC® Front Page The YGS Group York, PA Executive Spotlight Collective Wisdom YP40 ABOUT WORLDWIDE ERC® Worldwide ERC® is the workforce mobility association for professionals who oversee, manage, or support U.S. PG 38 THE NUMBERS domestic and international employee transfers. The SIRVA 2018 Mobility Report organization was founded in 1964 to help members overcome the challenges of workforce mobility. PG 79 ADVERTISERS’ INDEX OUR PURPOSE We empower mobile people through meaningful connections, unbiased information, inspired ideas, and solutions. PG 80 INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Top 7 Mobility Trends By Lisa Johnson worldwideerc.org | Mobility 5 MOBILITY Vol. 40 No. 6 • June 2019 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Chairman of the Board Calendar of Events SCRP, SGMS-T Sue Carey, Baird & Warner, Chicago, Illinois, USA JUNE 2019 Chair-Elect U.S. Immigration Climate: Changes in Immigration Edward Hannibal, GMS Adjudications and Enforcement Deloitte Tax LLP, Chicago, Illinois, USA 11 June Vice Chair – Finance Master Series, sponsored by Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP Robert Brezosky Boston The Walt Disney Company, Burbank, California, USA worldwideerc.org/events Vice Chair – Talent Community Andrew P. Walker, GMS-T U.S. Immigration Climate: Changes in Immigration EY, New York, New York, USA Adjudications and Enforcement President and Chief Executive Officer 13 June Peggy Smith, SCRP, SGMS-T Master Series, sponsored by Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP Worldwide ERC®, Arlington, Virginia, USA New York BOARD OF DIRECTORS worldwideerc.org/events Merritt Q. Anderson San Francisco, California, USA Erik Eccles SEPTEMBER 2019 Urbandoor, San Francisco, California, USA Tokyo Summit 2019 Kerwin Guillermo 5 September Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Singapore Tokyo Heather Henry worldwideerc.org/events-conferences Netflix Inc., Los Gatos, California, USA Gustavo Higuera, CRP, GMS-T OCTOBER 2019 Weichert Workforce Mobility Inc., Miami, Florida, USA Global Workforce Symposium 2019 Sigrid Nauwelaerts 16–18 October Johnson & Johnson, Beerse, Belgium Boston Shelby Wolpa worldwideerc.org/events-conferences InVision, Austin, Texas, USA EX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS Chairman, Foundation for Workforce Mobility MAY 2020 Robert L. Giese, SCRP, GMS Americas Mobility Conference 2020 Sterling Lexicon, Jacksonville, Florida, USA 12–15 May PAST CHAIRMAN Houston Robert J. 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Subscriptions are available to both members and worldwideerc.org/events-conferences nonmembers at $48 each per year. Copyright ©2019 by Worldwide ERC®. All rights reserved. Neither all nor part of the contents published herein may be reproduced in any READ ALL ABOUT IT! form without written permission from Worldwide ERC®. About what? That’s our question for you! Send your suggestions for topics you’d like to read about in Mobility to [email protected]. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Mobility, Worldwide ERC®, 4401 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 510, Arlington, VA 22203-4195. 6 Mobility | June 2019 2019 U.S. NEWS – BEST LAWYERS® “LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR” IN IMMIGRATION LAW IN AMERICA BALGLOBAL.COM Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP 2400 N. Glenville Drive, Building A Richardson, TX 75082 Copyright © 2019 Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP PERCEPTIONS Leveraging Talent ake 50 percent of the working population that’s filling traditional jobs. Add a healthy portion of contingent workers, both long- and short-term, depending on the initiatives you need to address. Measure out percentages of automation and artificial intelligence, a huge component of lifelong learning, season with company culture, and mix well. Congratulations! You’re creating tomorrow’s workforce. And when I say “tomorrow,” that’s a little misleading—because leveraging all the possi- Tbilities and opportunities to build the future workforce is already underway. We know that using traditional workforce practices exclusively won’t cut it anymore. There are tumbling population replacement rates: Today, almost 50 percent of the world’s population lives in countries that are below the average global replacement rate of 2.1 children per woman. We have rising numbers of contingent workers choosing entrepreneurial and flexible career paths, expected to outpace traditional employment in the near future. Automation is both replacing jobs and creating new ones, and the World Economic Forum says that after 75 million jobs are displaced by 2022, those created will add up to nearly 60 million net new jobs … jobs that will need specialized skills, so upskilling and training are imperative. (In Upwork’s latest Skills Index, 70 per- cent of the fastest-growing skills are new to the index!) Deloitte’s 2018 “Global Human Capital Trends” report is already charting movement as companies adjust to advanced technologies: 53 percent of the 11,000 HR and business lead- ers who responded said they were redesigning jobs around automation. Companies that are already revolutionizing ways to bring together tradi- tional employees, learning, technology, and access to contemporary talent assets such as on-demand and remote workers will be best positioned for com- petitiveness and growth. The story of a new workforce is writing itself—and we are part of the narrative. Cheers, PEGGY SMITH, SCRP, SGMS-T President and Chief Executive Officer Worldwide ERC® 8 Mobility | June 2019 BECAUSE THERE’S MORE TO RELOCATION THAN GETTING FROM POINT A TO POINT B THERE’S SO MUCH RIDING ON RELOCATION WHEN AN EMPLOYEE MOVES That’s why we make sure the mortgage process fl ows as smoothly as possible. So they # AMONG can focus on what really matters: getting