Guide to employee mobility

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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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