MoveMinds: A Talent Mobility Podcast Weichert Workforce Mobility

In this episode, we chat with Oksana Ellalasingham of Cultural Awareness International to discuss the critical role that destination services play in helping relocating employees hit the ground running in their new community. It's the first and arguably most important step to ensuring employee engagement and high productivity and we've got the tips you need to help your employees get the most of this offering, whether they're moving domestically or globally.    

It's a fact that potential disruptions to family harmony will make a relocation less desirable to your employees. So how do you win over any dissenters among accompanying family members? In this episode, we chat with Lauren Herring of The IMPACT Group on the topic of moving families and the relocation benefits that make a difference to them when it comes to adjusting to a new location (not to mention getting their buy-in for a move). It's insightful and important info for mobility managers!

In this episode, we sit down with John Merriweather, President and CEO of GO Destination Services, for a detailed discussion of how the relocation industry can best serve veterans, and the types of benefits that are most important to this distinguished demographic. Drawing on his experience as a veteran and a relo professional, John provides timely advice and solid perspective. 

Nothing affects the cost of your relocation program -- and the overall experience for your relocating employees -- like the state of the real estate market. In this informative episode, our subject matter experts discuss the current state of the market, trends they're seeing and where they predict things are heading, and how corporate relocation managers can stay one step ahead of every challenge the market conjures. Join Betsy Roche, VP of the Weichert Broker Network, and Joe Palumbo, VP of Real Estate Services, for a valuable and insightful market discussion with Laura Levenson, Practice Leader of our Advisory Services group. It's 30 minutes that can help you make work happen!

Our quarterly look at current trends across the US real estate market (with some insight to the Canadian market) and how they are impacting relocating employees and other buyers. Topics include the current lack of inventory and higher home prices; how these and other challenges are affecting buyers, particularly young professionals who may be looking to relocate into their first home; how companies are adjusting relocation/home buying benefits to accommodate the current market; the shape of things to come; and much more. It's a half hour of valuable content presented by Laura Levenson, Practice Leader in Weichert Workforce Mobility's Advisory Services group; Joe Palumbo, Vice President of Real Estate Services for Weichert Workforce Mobility; and Betsy Roche, Vice President of the Weichert Broker Network.

As shocking as Russia's invasion of Ukraine was to the entire free world, it was even more traumatic for people in the country working on assignment. In this special episode we are joined by several key service partners who share insights to the situation on the ground in Ukraine and offer practical solutions to some of the difficult situations companies with international assignees in Ukraine are facing. Topics include safety measures for assignees and their families, immigration and evacuation, and household goods shipping, to name a few. It's actionable info for meeting a terrifyingly complex challenge.