Think Women’s 40 Outstanding Global Women 2023 - Karlijn Jacobs, Expat Valley

When Professor Rob Kelly’s toddler gate crashed a live CNN interview back in 2017, few could have known then that many of us with families would go on to experience similar as the business world moved into our homes because of the lockdowns.Both these seminal moments remind us that the boundaries between home and work are increasingly blending. The explosion in hybrid working practices and the focus on employee and family wellbeing in both local and international contexts highlight the innovation, evolution and continual renegotiation of the employee/employer relationship, especially in the inclusion and talent management arenas.In Global Mobility, these conversations around employee experience remain as necessary and as timely as ever. Family considerations and difficulties settling remain key – and costly – reasons for assignment refusal or failure. The increasing automation and self-service approach of international moves, more dual-career families on assignment, and mental and physical wellbeing considerations are opening spaces for more individually focused assignment management. 

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