Holiday wishes

To clients and other HR professionals who read this blog we extend our best wishes for the beginning of the holiday season with Thanksgiving tomorrow. I hope each and every one of you and your families enjoy the meals and family time. I would also would like to share with you a new video from Simple Truths which provides us some thoughts for these tough times we find ourselves in:

http://www.bestwayout.com/

Relocation Announcement

With the purchase of Vitality Beverages, Nestle Professional is moving it's corporate headquarters from Glendale, CA to Tampa, FL.

Relocation announcement

According to Automobile Magazine and the Bloomberg Report, Toyota over the next several months will complete the decision process to move its accounting, product planning and travel and data centers to either Kentucky or Michigan. The move would place the departments closer to the company's North American engineering and assembly sites and cut their overall operating costs.

Relocation Announcement

Cell phone handset maker Sony Ericsson will move its North American headquarters from North Carolina to Atlanta and close a half-dozen sites worldwide as it retrenches against what it expects will be a tighter market and cuts about 1,600 jobs globally.

Relocation Announcements

Dover Corporation moving it's corporate headquarters from New York City to Downers Grove, IL

Mega Merger Announcement

The principals of GMAC Real Estate and Real Living have announced that they have agreed to merge the two organizations in to a single organization. The new organization will use the name Real Living with Harley Rouda Jr assuming the position of President of the new operations. The combined organizations will consist of 30,000 agents across North America.

Are we really getting the message across?

I recently entered into a discussion with Michael Vandervort (http://www.thehumanracehorses.com) regarding the fact that we need to get across to management that HR people are the smartest people in the room. My question in return was why doesn't management believe us..to which Michael stated that we are not telling the message loud enough. We are the ones who know how to utilize the human capital to the best advantage of the organization. The problem is that in most corporations the human capital experts --US-- are considered nothing more than an expense item. Therefore when times get tough, we all know that we are among the first ones to be cut.

The goal that we need to look at is how to demonstrate in constructive ways that we have more to offer to the organization then a bottom line number. We are the ones who can identify lapses in the way people assets are assigned, utilized and developed. we are the ones who can show how to engage the workforce in the change process to make the organization stronger.

So my question is how are you getting the message across to management? If you are not getting the message across why not? What could you do differently to change the perception of what you do?

Relocation announcement

the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Arthropod-Borne Animal Disease Research Laboratory is moving to Manhattan, KS from Laramie, Wyo.

Ineo Promotion Announcement

 Ineo Relocation Technologies announced that Mary B. Reilly has joined the company in the newly created position of Senior Vice President of Global Business Development. In this role, Mary will oversee Ineo Relocation Technologies sales, marketing and client relations efforts and will work with the technology team to represent the "voice of the client."

Microsoft changes Relocation Policy

According to Afro Press, Microsoft Corporation has changed its Relocation Policy to extend the payback agreement for those transferees who leave the company. Going forward if an employee joins the Microsoft Corporation, they will be asked to sign a payback agreement that calls for repayment of relocation expenses to the corporation if they leave prior to 24 months. This is in part due to the housing market conditions.