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Global & Mobility · AnsweredRelatedEight months in Monterrey: per diem, allowance or a light assignment package?I look after rewards for a German automotive supplier with about 9,500 employees. We are sending 12 engineers from Stuttgart to our plant in Monterrey for eight months to commission a new line. Our poIvan Rasmussen · 4 replies · 12mo ago
Singapore ChapterRelatedMobility packages are shrinking: what are you seeing?Ten years ago an assignment into Singapore came with housing, school fees, a carWesley Keller · 1 reply · 1mo ago

Global & Mobility · AnsweredSeven years into a three-year assignment in Singapore. How do we localise?partner-track director who went from London to Singapore in 2019 on a three-year assignment and is still there on full expatriate terms: housing at around SGD 9,500 a monthXimena Hoffmann · 6 replies · 5mo ago

Global & MobilityCapping education allowances when international school fees rise 9% a year?with 64 long-term assignees, 39 of whom have school-age children, mostly in Shanghai, Dubai, Lagos and Mexico City. Policy is actual tuition at an approved international school, uncapped. Average costMaya Chen · 2 replies · 2w ago

Global & MobilityRelatedWhat three years of host-based pay for new assignments taught usWe are a shipping and logistics group with roughly 6,000 employees and, at any time, around 70 people on long-term assignment. In 2023 we stopped offering the home-based balance sheet for new assignmeDalia Delaney · 5 replies · 4d ago

Global & MobilityRelatedWhy we ended split payroll for assignees in JapanFor years our assignees in Tokyo were paid 60% in yen through the localMaya Chen · 2 replies · 2w ago

Global & MobilityRelatedTax equalisation: the four misunderstandings we now explain before anyone signsAfter a bad year of disputes I rewrote our assignment briefing. We are anElif Mensah · 6 replies · 3w ago

Global & MobilityRelatedLesson learned: mobile employees and trailing tax on equity nobody was trackingWe had an expensive surprise this year. A sales director was granted restricted shares while working in France, moved to our US office after a year, then to Singapore. When the award vested, part of tXimena Hoffmann · 3 replies · 3d ago

Global & MobilityRelatedAssignee cost-of-living index lagging months behind the naira: what do you do in between?I manage mobility for a university with a research institute in Ibadan and a teaching partnership in Lagos. We have 16 academic and technical staff seconded from the UK on a home-based approach with aVera Silva · 3 replies · 11mo ago

Global & MobilityRelatedUnpopular view: the full balance sheet is the wrong default for most moves todayI have run mobility programmes for 20 years, currently at an engineering consultancy with about 220 assignees. I think the profession keeps the home-based balance sheet as a default out of habit. It wKiara Moreau · 6 replies · 7mo ago

Global & Mobility · AnsweredRelatedGranting RSUs to staff in Vietnam and Nigeria: is cash settlement the only practical route?We are a listed software business, about 2,400 employees in 19 countries, and we are extending our RSU plan below director level for the first time. That brings in 46 people in Ho Chi Minh City and 28Elif Kowalski · 4 replies · 2mo ago

Global & MobilityRelatedOur local-plus package for moves within Asia, with the numbersPosting our design because I found real examples hard to come by. We are a specialty chemicals business with about 3,000 people in Asia Pacific and around 50 intra-regional moves a year, mostly betweeTheo Yilmaz · 4 replies · 3mo ago

Job Architecture & CareersRelatedBrazil: reconciling global job titles with the occupation code on the work recordI joined a Swedish industrial group last year to lead reward for South America, about 1,750 employees in Brazil. Global is rolling out a catalogue of 380 jobs with standard titles. In Brazil each emplEwan Walsh · 2 replies · 2mo ago

Global & MobilityPermanent transfer from Manchester to Chicago at the employee's request: what is reasonable?insurance group of about 8,000, and our only international policy is the full assignment one, which is clearly not right for a one-way move she has asked for. My draftOscar Delaney · 1 reply · 1mo ago

Job Architecture & Careers · AnsweredRelatedAsia teams want 'Vice President' at a grade where the framework says 'Senior Manager'I cover Asia Pacific reward for a European asset manager, about 2,600 staff globally and 420 in Singapore, Hong Kong and Mumbai. The new global framework reserves 'Vice President' for grade 12. In ourZoe Pereira · 2 replies · 1y ago

Job Architecture & CareersRelatedActing-up and interim appointments: do they count at the acting level, or sit outside it?I work for a provincial government agency in Canada with about 2,100 employees. At any time roughly 160 people are in acting assignments one level up, with acting pay, and a fair number have been actiSamir Delaney · 0 replies · 6d ago