07 Feb, 2023 ICYMI: What & where - locational updates for better managing global mobility By Chris Pardo This, our latest bi-weekly locational update post, takes a look at a few different countries with events and occurrences that might...
20 Jan, 2023 Hopping into the Lunar New Year By Chris Pardo Lunar (Chinese) New Year 2023 will be the first since China lifted its longstanding COVID-19 restrictions. This means that travel and...
29 Nov, 2022 ICYMI: Covid, rail strikes, rents, real estate, and recessions By Chris Pardo Here we are headed into the home stretch of 2022. This time last year, Omicron took over the headlines. Today, wars, Covid, inflation and...
18 Oct, 2022 ICYMI: Global volatility and its impact on your mobility program By Chris Pardo Since our last ICYMI post 2 weeks ago, there have been a number of things happening globally that are likely to affect global mobility...
20 Sep, 2022 ICYMI: The pandemic is not over but the end is in sight...right? By Chris Pardo The WHO’s director-general said last week that “the end is in sight” as Covid deaths worldwide fell 22% last week to the lowest number...
06 Sep, 2022 ICYMI: Is Covid-19 still impacting global mobility or have we "moved on"?? By Chris Pardo According to this article from SHRM, employee relocations are on the rise as anxiety over the COVID-19 pandemic has subsided. Hesitations...
09 Aug, 2022 ICYMI: Can't stop, won't stop! By Chris Pardo Welcome to our bi-weekly post to catch you up on changes to travel and immigration due to Covid-19. We are in the middle of what is...
26 Jul, 2022 ICYMI: Data challenges & blind spots keep us guessing what's around the corner for mobility programs being impacted by Covid-19? By Chris Pardo Here's a bit of a scary wake-up call. According to this CNN article, "If 1 in 5 Covid-19 infections results in long Covid and true...
28 Jun, 2022 ICYMI: fast spreading Covid variants are keeping us on our toes! By Chris Pardo Omicron now accounts for roughly 97% of Covid-19 infections globally, with the BA.2 sub-variant accounting for the greatest share (39%)....
14 Jun, 2022 ICYMI: the latest on how COVID-19 is impacting global mobility By Chris Pardo The pandemic is absolutely no joke. Most of the time, it seems mind boggling. But it does sometimes take a (hopefully harmless) joke to...
18 May, 2022 Minimizing risk in a "super VUCA" world By Chris Pardo According to some recent Deloitte prognosticating, corporate travel should grow significantly from its now-small base over the course of...
03 May, 2022 ICYMI: Which phase and where? Let's catch up on the state of the pandemic around the world. By Chris Pardo In case you missed it, Dr. Anthony Fauci expressed optimism about the state of the pandemic (at least in the U.S.) this week when he said...