INTERNATIONAL REWARD
Guide to employee mobility
Employers increasingly want flexible workforces where employees have broad skill sets and can be deployed where they are needed most, according to a new guide by IDS. The reports looks at how international assignments can support business growth and provide high performers with opportunities to develop new skills.
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What you will find in this report
IDS focuses on two areas of employee mobility - international assignments and domestic employee relocation. This 64-page report is divided into three main sections:
1. Analysis
International assignments:
Reasons for assignments
Managing assignments
At a glance: a typical international assignment package
The assignment package
The balance sheet approach to compensation
The host country approach to compensation
Approaches to taxation.
Domestic employee relocation:
Managing relocation
Communicating the move
At a glance: Employee relocation
Eligibility for support
The relocation package
Taxation of relocation benefits.
2. Case studies
International assignments – four case studies describing the approach taken to managing assignment by:
Ernst & Young
O2
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Thomson Reuters.
Domestic employee relocation – two case studies looking at how two employers have relocated staff within the UK:
NATS
Maersk Line.
3. Company practice
Summaries of the domestic employee relocation policies at Allianz Insurance and Scottish Water.
Want to know more?
Title: “Employee Mobility”, IDS HR Studies 916, April 2010.
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