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Article by Siobhan Cummins, Managing Director, EMEA for ORC Worldwide, was published in, and is reprinted with permission of, International HR Adviser (formerly Expatriate Adviser).
The pace of change has accelerated dramatically in recent years, producing significant alterations in the business environment. This situation has had an impact on the way companies design and manage their international assignment programmes.
Many expatriate participants in ORC Worldwide's 2010 Location-Specific Survey of International Assignment Policies and Practices face traffic jams on a daily basis. In some of the cities studied by ORC (Bangalore, Bangkok, Delhi, Guangzhou, Istanbul, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Moscow, Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Taipei, and Tokyo), traffic congestion was the number one problem. In Guangzhou, traffic shared first place with pollution.
There's more to sending an employee overseas for an assignment than just plopping them on an airplane and saying "See you in a year!" Prior to sending someone on an international assignment, organizations must do a lot of research, including determining the costs and benefits to the organization among other prerequisites you can read about here in this article by Vince Cordova.
Expatriate participants in ORC Worldwide's 2010 Location-Specific Survey of International Assignment Policies and Practices report pollution as their top concern in several destination cities (Beijing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Kiev, Mexico City, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Suzhou, and Warsaw). In Guangzhou, pollution tied with traffic for first place; in Kiev and Mexico City, pollution shared first place with crime.
Article by Samantha Blackhurst Polovina is reprinted from International HR Journal. Copyright © 2010 Thomson Reuters-West. For more information about this publication, please visit www.west.thomson.com.
When relocating to another country, matters such as whether family members will be able to read street signs are sometimes the least of an expatriate's worries. In some locations, where local conditions present concerns about health or danger, an expatriate might instead worry about, for example: