Is Your Assignment Strategy for Brazil World Cup Ready?
Today’s post is a guest post by Darin Karp, President of Stress Free Corporate Housing, a global provider of temporary housing.
The 2014 FIFA World Cup will be the 20th FIFA World Cup, an international football tournament that is scheduled to take place in Brazil from 12 June to 13 July 2014 in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, Brasilia, Cuiaba, Curitiba, Fortaleza, Manaus, Natal, Recife, and Salvador. Brazil is expected to receive about 600,000 international visitors and 3 million local tourists for the World Cup. 
It’s busy season. Do you know who your transferees are?
You swore them off four years ago. “Never again,” you said.
Today’s post is a guest post by Erin Osterhaus, Managing Editor for 
Moving today’s relocation savvy executives adds a layer of complexity to the relocation process, as well as an additional expense. As many of us know, senior personnel requires more assurances and enticements in order to make the relocation attractive enough to accept. 
Is the housing market coming back? We sure hope so. 
The home finding trip is essential in your transferee’s search for a new home at destination. They need to be armed with plenty of information and resources to ensure they select a home that will work them and/or the whole family. Since the whole home marketing and home finding process can take such a big toll on transferees, why not present them with options that turn the home finding aspect into something desirable and fun? 
With relocation busy season around the corner, relocation managers are probably dusting off their policies and taking a good look at relocation budgets. But, how realistic are those budgets? One of the biggest challenges that human resources and procurement managers face is the difficulty of designing a proper relocation budget and then sticking to it when the rubber hits the road. That’s why clear cost projections are the linchpins that connect cost containment with adequate relocation benefit delivery. In order to ensure clear projections, its critical to get the most accurate view of anticipated costs right out the gate, preferably before an offer has been extended to the potential transferee. 
