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Tessa Iversen· Lumen Biosciences
We are a financial technology company with about 800 employees. We are moving six product managers from Warsaw to Dublin for 18 months to build a new team, after which they are…
Ximena Hoffmann· Meridian Health Systems
We 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…
Dalia Delaney· Copperfield Mining
We 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…
Oscar Delaney· Lumen Biosciences
We have 310 employees in Istanbul and Izmir, part of a pharmaceuticals group of about 18,000. For the last two years we have run a main review in January and an interim one in…
Sonia Dubois· Lumen Biosciences
A lesson from last cycle. We are a consumer goods manufacturer with about 12,000 employees and a pay review that runs in group currency for budgeting. Finance fixes the conversion…
Oscar Delaney· Lumen Biosciences
We are a construction and facilities group with about 4,600 employees in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, a large share of them in site and operative roles. Employee medical…
Tessa Iversen· Lumen Biosciences
We opened a 45-person engineering centre in Buenos Aires last year, part of a media technology company of about 1,300. Salaries are in pesos as required, reviewed quarterly, most…
Ximena Hoffmann· Meridian Health Systems
We are a mining services contractor with about 2,800 employees and roughly 90 expatriates across sites in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mongolia, Peru and Papua New Guinea.…
Maya Chen· Halcyon Financial Group
Education is now the second largest line in our assignment budget after housing. We are a food and beverage company with 64 long-term assignees, 39 of whom have school-age…
Maya Chen· Halcyon Financial Group
For years our assignees in Tokyo were paid 60% in yen through the local payroll and 40% in home currency from the home payroll. The idea was to protect savings and home…
Elif Mensah· Calibre Software
After a bad year of disputes I rewrote our assignment briefing. We are an energy services company with about 140 assignees, mostly between the UK, Norway, the UAE and the US, all…
Petra Lindqvist· Lumen Biosciences
Sharing what we ended up with after two years, since I struggled to find worked examples. Medical devices company, about 7,000 employees, 26 countries, 14 global grades evaluated…
Oscar Delaney· Lumen Biosciences
A senior data scientist has asked to move permanently to our Chicago office because her partner has taken a job there. She is highly rated and we would rather keep her. We are an…
Elif Kowalski· Cardinal Insurance
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…
Theo Yilmaz· Silverline Media
Posting 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…
Victor Nakamura· Silverline Media
We are a chemicals manufacturer with a site in Basel and about 190 employees who live in France or Germany and commute across the border. Since hybrid working became permanent,…
Fiona Quintero· Qasr Holdings
We ran our first proper audit of short-term business travel last year, using expense and travel booking data for about 5,000 employees at an engineering software company. The…
Noor Esposito· Steinbach Industrie
We are a 260-person software company with entities in the UK, Ireland and the US. Engineering wants to hire a principal engineer who lives in Medellin and has no intention of…
Tessa Iversen· Lumen Biosciences
I am the only rewards specialist at a humanitarian organisation with about 3,100 staff, 85% of them nationally hired in 40 countries, including South Sudan, Bangladesh, Jordan and…
Theo Rasmussen· Steinbach Industrie
Our applicant tracking and HR systems hold one figure, annual base salary. That works for the UK and US. In Brazil and the Philippines, where a 13th-month payment is required by…
