May 2016 - Global Mobility Solutions

Innovative Relocation Mobile Apps – The odds are high that you are reading this post on your phone. While desktop computer user activity has remained relatively stagnant for the past eight years, time spent on mobile devices has more than doubled since 2008. Currently, mobile internet usage has surpassed desktop as the most used digital platform. Just look around. Observe the crowds at train stations, sporting events, restaurants, and, unfortunately, theatres, and you will witness the multitudes of people with their faces glued to the glowing screens of their mobile devices. As a society, we have come to rely on our phones for news, weather, directions, entertainment, and, yes, communication. Now phones can play an important role in corporate relocation.

Through the innovative mobile app for myrelocation.com, transferees have an array of decision-making, tracking, and expense management tools at their fingertips. Transferees have anywhere, anytime access to tools like:

Moving Cost Estimator – A quick and easy tool that can aid a transferee in anticipating what his or her moving costs will be. This is especially helpful if a transferee has a capped or lump sum policy.

Buy vs. Rent Calculator – This simple to use, dual calculator illustrates what a transferee can expect to pay, over a given period of time when renting a home versus buying a home (spoiler alert: buying wins in almost every scenario). Users don’t even have to type anything in! They can just move the slider to view multiple scenarios.

My Initiated Services – Gives the transferee a snapshot of all of the services and contact information associated with his or her relocation. This at-a-glance feature answers the questions, “Which company is going to ship my household goods?” “What’s my realtor’s phone number?” “Where is the place I’m staying for my corporate housing?” and more. It’s all on one page – in one place – in an easy copy/paste format.

Innovative relocation mobile apps such as the myrelocation.com mobile app put the power of managing a move in the palm of your transferees’ hands. To learn more about how myrelocation.com can not only guide your transferees, but help you better manage the logistics and expenses involved with relocation, please visit https://gmsmobility.com/relocation-technology for details and demos.

Relocating one’s self – and in some cases one’s family – to a new, unfamiliar location can be a stressful, frightening experience, regardless the financial opportunity. A recent Worldwide ERC study evidenced that “Family resistance to move” was cited as the overwhelming reason why candidates were reluctant to relocate.

How can a human resources department, that has already spent a lot of time and money searching for the right candidate, ensure that an offer that includes relocation is accepted? How can they take the anxiety out of moving?

Pre-decision solutions are designed to assist both the employee and the company in determining the benefits and challenges of a potential relocation and overcoming reluctance. First, a mobility management company engages the candidate or transferee early in the process. Since mobility management companies are not bound by the same EOC rules that apply to human resource departments, they can ask more specific questions about lifestyle and family. This creates a complete picture of what would make the transferee comfortable in a new setting. This can include information about schools, shopping, activities, desired commute, and much more. Because the process includes questions that go beyond job performance, spouses and families feel more involved with the relocation process. The mobility management company further reduces stress by arranging community tours, housing information, and cost of living analyses. A pre-decision program can remove all the unknowns – generating positive excitement for the transferee and overcoming a family’s resistance to move.

For the company, pre-decision solutions are proven to increase offer acceptance and decrease time to acceptance. Additionally, because of built-in programs like Candidate Expense Management, the final cost of relocation have been shown to be less when utilizing a pre-decision solution. The Program Manager of Talent Acquisition at Providence Health and Services said of her experience with pre-decision, “By initiating relocations prior to the face-to-face interview, we know that transferees have arrived more quickly, have settled better, and stayed longer.” What more could a human resources department want?

To learn more about mobility pre-decision solutions, please visit www.gmsmobility.com/pre-decision/

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