Europe

Employee relocation: How to overcome time-zone communication challenges

Employee relocation: How to overcome time-zone communication challenges

Domestic employee relocation is relatively straight forward in terms of communication, even in countries that span multiple time-zones, like the USA.

However, international relocation can be a completely different kettle of fish. You might be tempted to think that a relocation from Germany to the UK wouldn't throw up too many communication challenges, but what happens at 6PM when the employee in Germany needs to get hold of the UK-based HR or relocation team? Well, it's 5PM in the UK and the majority of folk are heading home. That query will just have to wait until the following morning, regardless of how important it may be.

Goodbye EU; hello Europe

Goodbye EU; hello Europe

And the Brexit storm continues to rage...

There has been so much speculation about the potential effects and non-effects of the UK's departure from the EU, it is starting to wear a little thin for some. Here at Celsium, we were already bored to tears of hearing about it on the Friday the decision was announced, which is why we haven't written anything about it before now. Has nothing else been worthy of column inches other than the Britons' rejection of democracy?

Cost of Living Index in Europe

Top ten cities

 

What is the Cost of Living Index?

To calculate each city's Cost of Living Index value, Expatistan starts by assigning a value of 100 to a central reference city (that happens to be Prague). Once the reference point has been established, the Price Index value of every other city in the database is calculated by comparing their cost of living to the cost of living in Prague.

Therefore, if a city has a Price Index of 134, that means that living there is 34% more expensive than living in Prague.