Managing Mobility Costs and Compliance
The challenging economic and geopolitical environment has put pressure on businesses to explore new ways of facilitating overseas assignments with reduced mobility costs. Global mobility teams have been tasked with lowering their costs, just as other organisational functions have. But they have to do this while ensuring talent mobility and maintaining standards such as immigration […]
Employee Retention Strategies
Employee retention refers to an organisation’s ability to keep its staff for an extended period by maintaining job satisfaction, engagement and growth opportunities. High retention is essential for business stability, as it helps reduce recruitment costs, maintain productivity, and retain valuable skills and knowledge. Employee retention is an important part of running a successful organisation, […]
EU Citizens’ Rights After Brexit
Following the UK’s departure from the European Union and the end of EU free movement on 31 December 2020, EU citizens’ rights in Britain have undergone significant reform. The introduction of the UK’s points-based immigration system created a two-tier structure for EU nationals: those who were resident in the UK by the end of the […]
Aligning Global Mobility & Talent Management
Organisations are under increasing pressure to demonstrate return on their global mobility programmes. Crucially, this entails taking the mobility function beyond the role of a reactive, operational service, to become a strategic driver delivering value across the organisation. This transformation however necessitates collaboration with wider business functions and areas of strategic importance. One area that, […]
EEA Family Permit Guide 2025
The EEA Family Permit was an immigration route that allowed non-EEA family members to join or accompany EEA or Swiss nationals in the UK. It granted permission to live, work and study in the UK for up to six months and allowed unrestricted travel in and out of the country during that period. This route […]
Business Travel Compliance: Managing Risk
International business travellers remain a common source of immigration compliance risk for organisations. Although they typically make up the largest proportion of an organisation’s global movement, the reality is, this cohort tends to fall under the radar of internal global mobility policies and programmes, meaning their movements are neither measured, nor monitored nor managed for […]
3 Ways Global Mobility Should Deliver Organisational Value
Competition for best talent continues to intensify on a global scale, against a backdrop of increasingly stringent national immigration policies. As such, organisations are more reliant than ever on global mobility functions to overcome challenges and meet their people needs. We look at three key areas where global mobility teams can focus on delivering much-needed […]