The Outlook for Global Mobility in 2025

Breakfast Briefing

3 December 2024

08:30 - 11:30

Hilton Singapore Orchard

Fully booked

This free event offers an excellent opportunity to network with fellow in-house HR peers responsible for Global Mobility and to catch up with the ECA team.

Providing an update on how employee mobility has been impacted by global business and industry trends, this briefing will enable attendees to gain insights into the mobility landscape and some of the key issues facing HR practitioners responsible for managing assignments in Asia today.

Who should attend?

This event is exclusively open to in-house HR professionals responsible for or involved in the management of their company's international assignments.

Agenda

08:30 - 09:00	Coffee, registration & networking
09:00 - 09:45	Global mobility into 2025 – what does the next year hold? Looking at current events and potential happenings in 2025, alongside current trends in Global Mobility policies and practices, we will aim to explain what has happened in the past 12 months and help you prepare for the year ahead. This session will touch on the following areas of discussion: Global Mobility patterns in 2024 – which types of mobility were most popular? The continued uptake of International Remote Work and how companies are overcoming the challenges this presents. How have major political and economic developments impacted Global Mobility in 2024 and what should HR professionals pay attention to in 2025. Come away from this session with a better understanding of current trends and how they may impact your management of workforce mobility in 2025. Quiz Test your knowledge of current affairs involving global mobility management and ECA data with our popular and challenging topical quiz.
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee break & networking
10:30 - 11:15	ECA’s data updates in 2024 and 2025 Presenting the results of ECA’s latest data updates, prepare yourselves ahead of upcoming salary and package reviews for your mobile staff and learn about developments which may impact the management of your assignee workforce in 2025. This session will touch on the following discussion points: Key changes in assignment related allowances (e.g. COLA and Location (Hardship) Allowances) in locations of note in the region; How inflation has impacted costs for business travel and short-term assignments; Which assignment-related benefit costs have increased most in 2024, or are forecast to do so in 2025, and the reasons why; and Major changes in immigration, social security and tax legislation that have an impact on managing Global Mobility in the region. Quiz results Find out how well you did in our quiz.
11:30	Wrap-up & close

Speakers

Lee Quane - Director of Business Development – Asia
Lee Quane is ECA's Director of Business Development for Asia. He is responsible for providing solutions which reflect the Global Mobility requirements of international organisations who are either headquartered in, or operate in, the Asia region. His scope of specialism includes providing software and data recommendations which meet client requirements and working with organisations to create, review or enhance their GM policies and practices. Lee has approx. 25 years of GM experience, of which a large amount has been gained since relocating to ECA’s Hong Kong operations in 2003

Venue Details

Hilton Singapore Orchard
333 Orchard Rd
Singapore
238867

For a location map, please see here.

Please note this venue was previously known as the Marina Orchard hotel.

Terms & Conditions

Places are limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis, with a maximum of two participants per organisation permitted owing to capacity restrictions..

Although this event is free to attend a cancellation fee of SGD 60 will be charged for cancellations received later than 19 November and for non-attendance on the day.

All cancellations must be made in writing. Substitute delegates may be registered at any time. Due to unforeseen circumstances the programme may change and ECA reserves the right to change the venue and/or speakers.

This event is now fully booked. Please complete the short form here to be added to the wait list and we will be in touch if a place becomes available.

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