A new report from Brookfield Global Relocation Services highlights five key areas that are holding back employee mobility.

The first point in the report ‘Overcoming Inhibitors to International Employee Mobility’ was the failure to provide a sufficiently specific mobility programme for a particular role or assignment.

The report also suggested that senior management must better understand the needs of their mobile employees, including those already assigned abroad.

Brookfield’s study also encouraged more commitment to compliance in areas such as tax regulations and immigration, and showed that centralisation of international mobility programmes can ignore differences between the workings of regional departments.