Global Relocation

Tech, Travel and Tax: The Right Tools to Ensure Compliance for Your Business Travelers

Date: Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM ET

Presenters: Julian Yates, Vice President, Global Consulting

                       Brian Richards, Vice President, Client Technologies

Managing business travelers as they globetrot from country to country can be tough; and complying with the varying tax and visa requirements in those countries even more complex.

The bad news—it’s getting more difficult as...

SIRVA Corporate Housing's Chris Cerasoli, Regional VP of Business Development, was interviewed on "How's the Market?" radio show. 

"How's the Market?" is a Sunday morning real estate radio show in the New York City area hosted by Jason Wilson of Scarsdale's Julia B Fee Sotheby's International Realty. 

Cerasoli's interview adressed questions such as...

• What is the difference between hotels and corporate housing?
• What other services does SIRVA provide?

Click here to learn more and listen to the...

SIRVA's senior manager of IHR consulting services, Lorraine Jennings, recently had an article featured on the UK's Re:locate. "Cultural considerations for virtual multicultural teams" speaks to the added communication challenges that are a result of companies continuing to expand or outsource globally. The article offers insights and best practices on cross-cultural awareness. 

Jason Birnbaum, EVP & CIO for SIRVA, was featured on CIO Talk Radio Blog this week. The post addresses the importance of IT playing a role throughout the organization, specifically the increasing need for partnership with the marketing department. Read the full post here. 

If so, you’re not alone. Varying laws, requirements and exchange rates make managing compensation and payroll for expats across the world a dicey job.

Adding to the complexity, there isn’t a lot of information out there. How are your peers managing global compensation and payroll around the world? What are they struggling with? Where are they succeeding? SIRVA is creating the conversation.

Our new report, Best Practices on Expatriate Payroll Administration, has the answers you need....

SIRVA is attending the 2013 National Relocation Conference in San Diego, CA from May 15^th to 17^th. Be sure to come see us at booth #400 to play “SIRVA Sommelier” for a chance to win a one year membership for wine of the month club!

Also join SIRVA employee, Michelle Cicen, and Michael Westphall from Abbott for their session, “I’d Rather Turn You Down Than Let You Down—Formalizing Your Pre-Decision Program”. This session will be held on Thursday, May 16^th from 3:15-4:15 pm.

Two SIRVA employees will...

The 98^th Annual International Supply Chain Management Conference will be held in Dallas, TX from April 28^th to May 1^st.

Come visit SIRVA at Booth #501 to talk with our industry experts and test your luck for a chance to win $500!

Questions about this event? Contact us at events@sirva.com. 

“Do you have a group move benchmark?”

SIRVA’s consulting group is often asked this question when a company is deciding which benefits to provide in a relocation policy for a group move they are planning. The simple and short answer is, “No”.

Every group move is unique and the relocation program correlates to whether the company wants everyone, the majority or just some key employees to accept the move. The company’s standard policy benefits are then adjusted in response to that answer. Due to...

"SIRVA, a leading global relocation and moving services provider, announced it opened an office in Doha, Qatar. Under the SIRVA brand Allied Pickfords, SIRVA now has local operations in Qatar, enhancing its complete mobility solution for customers across the globe and ensuring exceptional quality and service in Qatar through local delivery. The company will offer direct, on-the-ground domestic and international household goods moving services to businesses, governments, and private customers...

With increasing relocation activity in Europe, new confidence in the European property market and the UK and Germany being identified as preferred locations, SIRVA takes a look at the contributing factors and the resulting impact on client policy.

Why the increase?

Despite Eurostat, the European Union statistics agency, reporting a record low in unemployment at the beginning of this year, unemployment grew to 11.9 percent in January. The 17-nation Eurozone reported key skill shortages could be...

Global assignments, whether short term or long term, are often decided in a rush. You’ve expanded your offices and you need a Director of Operations over in Singapore stat. Or a new global project is underway and you need a manager to train your production team in Germany….yesterday!

Often I see clients making decisions about determining the type and length of the global assignment, and choosing their candidate even before running the numbers to see the financial impact to their bottom line. It...

Your customization is our priority, so whatever your needs are, we have the right solution. By selecting from our comprehensive suite of global relocation services, we can deliver the ideal mix of services for you.

 
How can SIRVA create the "perfect mix" for your mobility program? Visit our booth at the upcoming Worldwide ERC ® 2013 Global Workforce Summit: Talent Mobility in APAC held at the Pudong Shangri-la, Shanghai on 19 - 20 March, 2013  to learn more! And you will not want to miss one of...

Another year of W-2's and, if you have employees on international assignment, you may still be collecting and preparing information for your W-2C's.

Sadly, the W-2C rate for expatriates for many organizations is 75 to 100 percent! Correcting and re-correcting international assignment data is painful. This year when the pain hits, take time to document what went wrong and find a way to fix your process. So that in 2014 you won't have to reach for the aspirin bottle quite as frequently.

Here are...

Recently, Sue Wines, VP of Global Compensation & Payroll Administration at SIRVA, outlined the findings from SIRVA’s Expatriate Payroll Administration Study.

Did you miss this informative webinar? If so, click here to watch it now!

Session Summary:

Best Practices on Expatriate Payroll Administration

The study identifies expatriate compensation administration trends, challenges and best practices based directly on corporate input. The study results will provide companies with the benchmarking...

Achieving cost efficiencies without impacting the assignee’s experience is the holy grail of global relocation. But it can be achieved. When faced with the directive to reduce the cost of global mobility there is the temptation to cut cost by eliminating “soft” benefits or asking your third party providers to reduce their management fees. The problem with this approach is that a soft benefit, such as cultural training, may have a profound impact on the success of an assignment while costing a...

When there are children involved in any overseas assignment, their needs are, quite rightly, uppermost in their parents’ minds.  Once the new job has been confirmed and the wheels of the move grind into action, all the ‘fun’ bits such as finding a great house, choosing a new car, etc., tend to take a back seat.  Why?  Because it is how junior family members make the transition that will inevitably be the major concern.

For those of school age it will mean introducing not only the concept of...

SIRVA is pleased to announce that Lorraine Jennings, Senior Manager of Consulting Services in Asia-Pacific and Middle East, was Runner-Up for Global Mobility Professional of the Year. The Forum for Expatriate Management received over 500 entries for this year’s Asia-Pacific EMMA Awards.

The Global Mobility Professional Award recognizes those who maintain an outstanding reputation through quality of service, innovation and professional knowledge. During her 25 years as an HR professional and in...

Join Sue Wines, VP of Global Compensation & Payroll Administration at SIRVA, for a webinar outlining the findings from SIRVA’s Expatriate Payroll Administration Study.

Date: Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Time: 12:00PM – 1:00PM CT

Register Now!

The study identifies expatriate compensation administration trends, challenges and best practices based directly on corporate input. The study results will provide companies with the benchmarking data needed to improve and build upon global payroll processes.

Thi...

Companies call it many different things – COLA, Cost of Living Allowance/Differential, Goods & Services Allowance/Differential, or COLA Differential - but it all represents the same for expatriates.

COLA (as it will be referred to in this article) is a payment made to expatriates to compensate for the higher costs of purchasing goods and services between their home and host locations. In essence, the purpose of COLA payments is to “keep expatriates whole".

Goods & services categories can include:

• Gr...

SIRVA is pleased to announce that Global Training Specialist, Patty Dignon, was awarded the Meritorious Service Award by the Canadian Employee Relocation Council (CERC).  The award is presented to members whom actively support CERC through various volunteer activities and committees.

Patty has been involved with CERC for over 10 years. During which time she has served as a Conference Planning Committee member, Membership Subcommittee Chair, and Marketing Committee Chair. Patty also promotes the...