{"id":65,"date":"2011-03-28T17:53:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T16:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/?p=65"},"modified":"2013-01-08T18:28:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T17:28:50","slug":"current-trends-family-concerns-remain-the-hot-topic-in-expatriation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/2011\/03\/28\/current-trends-family-concerns-remain-the-hot-topic-in-expatriation\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Trends: Family concerns remain the hot topic in expatriation"},"content":{"rendered":"

When looking at the hot topics and key challenges in expatriation, it seems that family-related issues continue to top the list. The 2010 Brookfield Global Relocation Trends Survey <\/a>results indicate that, similar to previous years, multinationals view family adjustment, children\u2019s education and partner resistance as the most important expatriation challenges. Companies also state that family concerns and dual-career issues are the main reasons for employees to turn down international assignment offers.<\/p>\n

Similar trends are reported in the 2010 Global Mobility Policy & Practices survey<\/a>, which suggests that 74% of the reported reasons to turn down an international relocation are family or personal circumstances.<\/p>\n

However, these challenges are not limited to the stage of selecting candidates for expatriation. The same reasons also emerge when analyzing assignment failures. The Global Relocation Trends Survey found family concerns to be the main reason (32%) for returning early from an assignment. Likewise, the Global Mobility Policy & Practices survey attributes 30% of the failure reasons to a family\u2019s inability to adapt to the host location.<\/p>\n

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When looking at the hot topics and key challenges in expatriation, it seems that family-related issues continue to top the list. The 2010 Brookfield Global Relocation Trends Survey results indicate that, similar to previous years, multinationals view family adjustment, children\u2019s education and partner resistance as the most important expatriation challenges. Companies also state that family […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18330],"tags":[18332,18335,17550,18331,18334],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-views-and-news-about-expatriates","tag-adjustment","tag-dual-career-issues","tag-expatriation","tag-family-concerns","tag-personal-circumstances"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t