Melbourne Chapter Meeting on the 14th August 2018  was titled “Assignee Experience - The Drive to Make it Better" and hosted by KPMG.

Mardi Heindrich, partner at KPMG and her team gave a brief overview of recent changes in immigration and tax and then facilitated a panel discussion with the Melbourne participants.

In this session, our panel of global mobility professionals focused on the assignee experience and ways this could be improved.  Two of the panel, Nicole Woodcock of KPMG and Belinda Dunn of WorleyParsons had had several personal international assignment experiences and the third panellist Meera Srinivasan, had worked in global mobility for over 10 years, with several years overseeing the relocation of senior executives.

We examined whether there was a link between the assignee experience and the driver for the assignment; assignment policies: what works well, what doesn’t work well.  We also considered how the experience be improved whilst the costs are maintained or lowered. The significance of the role played by third party service providers and most importantly the real life perspective from the international assignees on our panel.  Theory vs reality and the unexpected challenges they faced on the ground.

KPMG shared the linked Slide Deck.

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