Managing expatriates

Last updated: 17 November 2009

 

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Managing your expatriate investment

Mercer is ideally positioned to help you effectively manage your global workforce. Our capabilities include:

  • Strategy, design and implentation around

    • Compensation

    • Retirement

    • Healthcare and benefits

  • Global mobility data and tools

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Expatriates represent an important part of your workforce. If managed effectively, expatriates will generate tremendous benefits for your organisation, including the transfer of cross-border knowledge, leveraging of local investments and provision of career development opportunities for your employees.

 

To help you meet the challenges of a mobile workforce we've created this Managing expatriates minisite which features a library of related articles along with details of the 'must have' survey releases. Under our How can we help? section we explain Mercer's three phased approach to managing your mobile workforce effectively and you can also visit the contact us page to learn about the key employee mobility contacts in your region.

 


Keep your finger on the pulse of employee mobility and HR trends with our best selling surveys

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Featured surveys

Survey of Expatriate Housing Costs and Practices in Major Cities Worldwide

 

 

USD 1,950

Housing remains one of the most sensitive issues in the expatriate package negotiation process, primarily because of its cost but also because of its significant impact on the assignee and family.

 

Mercer's new report, Survey of Expatriate Housing Costs and Practices in Major Cities Worldwide, presents housing policies and practices as well as complete, current housing-related cost survey data to help you make better-informed expatriate housing decisions. The report will help both decision makers and assignees with information on pricing and availability for preferred expatriate neighbourhoods in each city of the 50 cities covered.

 

 

 Learn more about the 2008/09 Survey of Expatriate Housing Costs and Practices in Major Cities Worldwide 

 

Benefits survey for expatriates and globally mobile employees 

 

 

USD 1,100

This report identifies multinational company policies and trends for providing employee benefit programmes for globally mobile employees.

 

Our 2008 survey report can help you structure and offer competitive, equitable benefit programmes for your international assignees. It includes information on:

 

  • Retirement benefits
  • Medical benefits
  • Risk benefits
  • Localisation
  • General policies and trends

 

 Learn more about the 2008 Benefits Survey for Expatriates and Globally Mobile Employees

 

 

Recorded web briefings

Managing expatriates in unprecedented times - containing international assignment cost

 

This briefing covers the following topics:

  • Latest trends in the field of international assignment

  • How will the economic down turn effect the movement of employees

  • Practical tips and solutions to best contain assignment costs

  • How to best maximise the value of your international assignment program

 

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Setting and communicating competitive expatriate allowances

 

This web briefing discusses:

  • Assessing effective expatriate allowances: options and trends

  • How to choose the appropriate Cost of Living index and communicate allowances 

  • Impact on applying or not the negative Cost of Living / goods and services allowance

  • Challenges of paying expatriate compensation packages in home vs in host currency

 

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Managing expatriate compensation – The currency and inflation challenge

 

Recorded on 22 October 2008, this free one hour briefing explores how currency fluctuations and inflationary pressures are impacting on expatriate compensation, with particular focus on how inflationary pressures are affecting international assignments.

 

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The challenge of expatriate housing - Managing costs and expectations

 

Housing provisions can have a significant impact on assignees' compensation packages and their expectations.

 

Recorded on 29 January 2009, this free one hour web briefing explores the challenges of expatriate accommodation. 

 

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