Published 07 December 2022
Wage increases are always keenly anticipated by staff, but why are salaries reviewed at all? And do assignee salaries need to be reviewed in a different way to local salaries?
Published 13 June 2025
Cost of living adjustments can be tricky to manage - and often hard for assignees to fully grasp. In this interview, Georgia Wilson debunks the most common COLA myths and shares best-practice insights for GM teams.
Published 08 February 2019
Many expatriates are accompanied by their partner when they go on an international assignment. But how can organisations support the partner in ways which are both meaningful and cost-effective?
Published 14 June 2024
Canned corned beef, camera film, DVD hire and MP3 player - all items once included in ECA's cost of living basket, representative of consumer tastes in their time which have since fallen out of favour. Here we look at how ECA's cost of living team ensures the basket is always...
Published 18 July 2022
Focusing on some key initiatives we see companies introducing in order to incorporate sustainability into mobility policies, we address the challenge of balancing assignee satisfaction with implementing sustainable actions.
Published 17 June 2021
Salaries based on local packages are becoming increasingly common, but how do you know if they provide a sufficient incentive for your assignees?
Published 15 February 2023
Permanent transfers are on the rise, with nearly two-thirds of respondents to ECA's recent Permanent Transfers Survey expecting the proportion of these moves in their global mobility population to increase in the next three years. We have prepared an infographic to summarise ...
Published 28 November 2023
With global inflation remaining higher than expected this year, what impact will it have on local pay awards going forward?
Published 11 June 2019
Take a look at the key findings from ECA's recent International Rotators Survey, showing the latest trends in rotator assignments.
Published 29 October 2018
The second and final part of our assignment lifecycle series looks at the different steps that need to be considered by a global mobility team during an assignment, as well as the repatriation process once it has ended.