Busy HR professionals now have one more task to add to their to-do list — relocation manager.
“When the economic crisis occurred, HR and relocation departments both took a hit,” said Melissa Seitz Medford, consulting services manager for TRC Global, an employee relocation company in Philadelphia. That caused many companies to merge the two teams, or to eliminate relocation experts all together and move those tasks to HR. The challenge: “HR people are not mobility experts,” she said.
That’s putting additional pressure on relocation services companies to provide simple solutions that meet the needs of employees and companies, within increasingly tighter budgets.
