Global Workforce Symposium 2018: Global Compensation Collection: Best Practice Meets Reality:  Define global compensation delivery models, explore compensation collection, and discuss which methods are best suited to different program types and why.

 

Global Workforce Symposium 2018: Global Momentum Productivity Study:  Learn about the results of the Global Momentum Productivity Study, which examines, identifies and validates international mobility-related events determined to have a significant impact on employees’ focus at work, and as a result, the company’s bottom line. Also learn about highlights from a previous survey, which focused on individuals who moved domestically within the U.S. as well.

 

Global Workforce Symposium 2018: Show Me the Money - Banking on Cryptocurrencies:  What is cryptocurrency?  Is it good? Is it bad? Will it be our future?  In this session we give you both sides of the coin, provide an introduction to digital virtual, and explore the potential impact to our industry.

 

Global Workforce Symposium 2018: Worldwide ERC® Tax and Legal Update:  Learn about current mobility tax and legal issues from Worldwide ERC®’s Tax Counsel and Government Affairs Advisor, including an update on what’s happening in Washington that may affect you or your business. Improve your understanding of the issues Worldwide ERC®’s Government Affairs Forums are focusing on.

 

Global Workforce Symposium 2018: Blueprints for Success: Building a Mobility Program that Balances Cost and Flexibility:  Balancing cost control with the evolving needs of today’s mobile workforce has become a strategic imperative for companies struggling to meet their future business objectives. This session looks at two mobility programs designed to meet unique employee needs while controlling overall costs, with a special focus on flexible approaches.

 

Global Workforce Symposium 2018: Leveraging Technology: How Data Analytics Applies to Global Mobility:  Data analytics is capturing qualitative and quantitative information used to enhance productivity. In global mobility, data is extracted to identify patterns, costs and behavior as to forecast conclusions. How is data best used to provide the user information to control costs, enhance the experience, and predict outcomes.

 

Global Workforce Symposium 2018: An Introduction to Global Immigration Concepts and Strategies:  Immigration is one of the key factors in the management of a sophisticated global mobility program. Any company sending employees across borders needs to have a foundation in immigration to make strategic decisions about the hiring and movement on their employees. This session focuses on common immigration concepts around the world and how companies navigate the challenges that arise in today’s changing immigration environment

 

 Global Workforce Symposium 2018: General Data Protection Regulation Update:  The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which covers European Union (EU) residents took effect on 25 May 2018. The new regulation has changed the way data privacy is addressed not only in the EU but across the globe. For the mobility industry, the implications are far reaching as every entity which comes into contact with personal data of EU residents must adhere to the regulations.  This session focuses on a range of issues from the impact on corporations, RMCs, and suppliers including new contractual agreements to the EU and global politics surrounding GDPR and what we can expect next in data privacy policy. The session includes experts from both Europe and U.S. on the topic."

 

Global Workforce Symposium 2018: The New Debate...Change the Household Goods Model?:  The moving industry is experiencing challenges such as driver shortages, increased costs and stringent regulations while client companies continue to experience difficulties supporting moves during summer months impacting the employee experience, cost increases and internal pressures to cutting costs.  As shipment of household goods become smaller and smaller the transporting of household goods has become more and more expensive.  It feels as though the client and the household goods industry are going in opposite directions on the partnership spectrum.  Is there anything that can be done as partners in meeting both our objectives?   Wouldn’t we be better off paddling the boat in unison?  Listen to a Point-Counterpoint debate between a Corporate Client and a Household Goods Partner.  Hear them articulate their challenges and potential resolutions to the other’s issues.   Is there a middle ground or should there be, whereby all may succeed?

 

Global Workforce Symposium 2018: Updating Your Mobility Program: Creating Buy-in and Budgets from Business Cases:  While apps on our smartphones are updated almost daily, the review cycles of Mobility Programs lie between 3-10 years. Mobility transformations can be likened to new smartphones or new operating systems, happening every 2-3 years on average. But internal and external developments are forcing faster change and agility is what is needed to respond to these changing demands. This means, that besides having Mobility transformations more frequently than in the past, one needs to look for incremental improvements on a constant basis, just like how frequently our apps are updated.  This session looks at how to develop business cases for change that can be applied for both large scale Mobility transformations as well as for incremental changes. What’s in it for you? Inspiration and practical ideas for addressing updates to you Mobility Program"

 

Global Workforce Symposium 2018: Changes, Protectionism, and Brexit: Update in Global Immigration:  ‍From denials of visas to Brexit, immigration has never been more challenging for companies. This session explores some of the most pressing issues when moving employees across borders and offers tips on how to prepare. It includes a discussion of countries who have recently undergone a major immigration overhaul, increased labor protections for foreign workers in Europe, and the impact of Brexit on EU citizens employed in the UK and British citizens employed in the EU.

 

Global Workforce Symposium 2018: Do You Know Who You're Moving?:  Due to the changing demographics of employees, this session discusses how global mobility policies and product offerings are changing, as well as how the customer experience is changing in support of changing transferee demographics which translates into changing needs. The session also discusses why the commitment to transport pets is important and why companies need to think outside the box when it comes to pet shipment; both at the beginning of assignment and far beyond repatriation of the initial assignment.

 

Global Workforce Symposium 2018: Where the Money Goes:  Human Resource professionals generally agree on the value of assisting with employee relocation costs. But with the average cost to relocate a U.S. domestic current home owning-employee often exceeding $100k, more and more organizations are reducing the level of assistance provided. In many cases, this is because HR professionals have not been able to justify the investment to corporate management. Before building a case for the return on mobility investment, it is important to understand all the various expense components and where that money goes. This session helps you understand where the relocation dollars go (who gets what and why).

 

Global Workforce Symposium 2018: Global Mobility Blunders!:  We can all relate to stories about unforeseen global mobility mishaps that could have been prevented. In this session, listen to stories about global mobility blunders that had a significant commercial or financial impact to the business and to people, processes, and policy. Lean about the consequences and lessons learned, and how the blunder changed company culture, global mobility processes or policies.

 

Global Workforce Symposium 2018: Brexit: Implications for Workforce Mobility:  As the UK moves closer and closer to its exit from the European Union on 29 March 2019, this session considers the current status of the negotiations between the UK and EU and the broad political issues at stake in the discussions. It also analyses the key issues and implications from a global workforce perspective, particularly in terms of the future immigration system, the mobility of skilled labour post-Brexit, mutual recognition of professional qualifications and data exchange—and speculates on the state of the future of both the UK and the EU.

 

Global Workforce Symposium 2018: Diversity Matters:  Inclusiveness and diversity in a business is imperative, and an increased number of companies are focused on this topic. While your company may be one with such an initiative, in the mobility and immigration arenas, your inclusiveness and diversity initiative maybe in direct conflict with the country you are relocating an individual to.  In this session, we discussed what your service providers need to know, how to have those conversations, what questions to ask and ideas to help support challenging issues in this space.

 

Global Workforce Symposium 2018: Mobility's Role in Developing Future Leaders:  Join industry thought leaders for a lively exchange of insights and innovative practices, enlightening how you realize this business imperative. We explored how to steer demographic and leadership change, how to nurture and sustain your talent pipeline, how to effectively use mobility in workforce planning, how can human and digital collaboration drive productivity and how to stay relevant in an era of industry disruption.

 

Global Workforce Symposium 2018: Where the Money Goes - Global Assignments:  A constant theme that Human Resource professionals emphasize when it comes to international assignments is that the experience costs a great deal of money. With the continued trend in increased global activity, understanding the costs is critical in helping forecast and manage budgets while ensuring the success of the assignment. Before building a case for the return on mobility investment, it is important to understand all the various expense components and where that money goes. Understand where the relocation dollars go (who gets what and why).

 

Global Workforce Symposium 2018: Don't Be A Victim: Security Scams and Scary Situations:  How corporate transferees around the world experienced situations that could have been avoided.  Duty of Care is serious when it comes to the security and well-being of transferees.

 

Global Workforce Symposium 2018: Housing Trends:  In this discussion, we share analysis regarding the United States, Asia and Europe housing trends, which includes home purchase, sale and rental trends that are impacting global mobility.

 

Global Workforce Symposium 2018: Artificial Intelligence: Disruption of Mobility Concepts:  Artificial intelligence, robotics, and chatbots have arrived in the mobility space and will be the single biggest disruptor to our industry.  Gain an understanding on how these platforms are currently being used, which aspects of our industry will see them deployed next, where we will be in five years and what it will do to our concept of customer service in this engaging discussion.

 

Global Workforce Symposium 2018: Disruptions in Global Mobility:  This session focuses on disruptors to both the RMC business model and the Household Goods business model and how this will continue to impact the Mobility Industry.  These disruptors are changing how services are delivered and how transferees and assignees are moving.

 

Global Workforce Symposium 2018: Corporate Benchmarking Recap:  Catch a recap of the topics Corporate HR attendees tackled during the Corporate Benchmarking