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DECEMBER 12, 2017

Reimbursement policies have been a pillar of employee relocation programs for years. Over time they evolved, but rather than increase in efficiency, they typically became more time consuming, burdensome, and a hassle to relocating employees, relocation professionals, and payroll departments. Even as technology improved other burdensome processes, reimbursement procedures remained frustratingly manual.

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MAY 31, 2018

UrbanBound CEO, Michael Krasman , spoke on a panel at the Chicago SHRM chapter about what innovative HR means in the 21st century. Michael, along with other HR thought leaders on the panel, discussed the ways in which HR has changed over the years. HR, once thought to be a purely administrative function, is now considered essential for long-term business goals as it relates to hiring, employee productivity and retention.

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MARCH 28, 2017

Millennials get a lot of guff for needing their hands held for something that seems simple. Of course, most of our current interactions with millennials are those who are inexperienced and just getting out in the world for the first time. It’s understandable that there’s a learning curve, even on the things that more experienced professionals may find to be mundane, everyday tasks.

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MARCH 21, 2017

It’s officially spring, which means internship programs around the country are firing up at full power. Some will be implementing relocation technology for the first time, some will be using previous relo tech experience to fuel an even better-tuned, tech-fueled solution, and others will be working without relo tech at all.

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MARCH 14, 2017

One of the trickier parts of integrating a new solution into any office environment is securing approval from higher ups and the procurement department. Especially when the item to be purchased is unique and fairly new, being able to accurately forecast the total cost and benefit analysis can be difficult. Relocation technology solutions are reaching the point of maturity where even the most stringent requirements should be met.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2017

In the past few years, as relocation technology emerged and solidified its impact on the industry, the way companies and policies interact with software has evolved alongside the tech itself. The chain of events reflect the mutual growth of both tech developers and users, much as it has in other fields.

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UrbanBound HR

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Working for a startup or a nascent tech company can sometimes resemble the scenes from a movie where a submarine crew is facing a crisis. Klaxons are blaring, leaks are springing, and the crew is constantly shifting its priority to address each new, most dire circumstance. In the heat of the moment, and at the necessity of urgency, many young and emerging companies sacrifice long-term planning for short term fixes.

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JANUARY 31, 2017

As long as this industry has existed, it has thrived off of one concept: the complexity of relocation. Policies and procedures among companies have gone from a single thread of a concept, “Provide relocation assistance as a benefit” into a tangled ball of yarn.

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UrbanBound HR

JANUARY 24, 2017

It’s part of the conventional wisdom that millennials are the most diverse and globally-oriented generation in American history. They were raised to seek out international opportunities, like study abroad or simply traveling. A global economy has been the status quo for their entire lives, and the importance of approaching their education and careers have left a lasting impression.

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JANUARY 10, 2017

Tech and data analysis are changing the relocation industry rapidly. We have more control and insight and overseeing a relocation program is simpler than ever before. Whether you’re scaling an internship program, aiming to increase your campus hire groups, or simply just expanding your talent search to find the best and brightest regardless of their location, relocating employees is an accessible goal.

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JANUARY 4, 2017

In the tech world, nothing happens in a vacuum. An innovation in one sector has rammifications in another area that may not even be tangentially related. Everyone is looking for the next big solution, and sometimes the idea motivating a trend is applicable across the board. Tech trends have a way of transcending borders, and relocation technology is not immune to these effects, as these three big tech stories show.

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UrbanBound HR

JANUARY 3, 2017

Implementing new and up-to-date HR software into your company can be quite an undertaking, but it can reap benefits for the whole organization. Especially your employees. When your employees benefit from new technology, your company in turn benefits from greater employee satisfaction and even improved productivity. We're going to explore some of the ways that your employees will benefit from the implementation of HR software and why it's so important for your company to stay at the forefront of

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UrbanBound HR

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Heading into the new year, budgets are locking in, priorities are being set, and your goals should be crystallizing. Trying to keep up in a rapidly evolving space like relocation can be daunting. The advances made in recent years have created an environment where all stakeholders need to be in constant motion. So many quick-moving pieces make it easy to flit from piece to piece, getting distracted from the larger issues causing the many small specks of trouble.

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

One of the greatest challenges HR departments are facing as the implement tech solutions is finding that not only did the need to modernize their software, but they also need to update their relocation policies. Not only does this cause hiccups in your benefits administration, it can gravely interfere with the successful adoption of new tech.

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UrbanBound HR

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

In just a few short years, HR technology solutions have gone from a glowing ember to a full-on blaze. Early solutions in the field were wobbly and barebones, as most software is in its infancy, and especially in areas where existing solutions don’t yet exist. But, as companies got their products into users’ hands and assessed the feedback and needs of HR professionals, they were able to hone their focus to the issues facing the industry.

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UrbanBound HR

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

The future of HR is an exciting one. It has undergone a tremendous transformation over the past few years, and the growth we've witnessed in 2016 is expected to grow even more in 2017. HR will continue evolving to appease younger generations arriving to the job market, and this has been made especially evident by the growth of technology in the space.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

For many companies, a software solution for a problem is just a box to check. Companies today promote software adoption by all departments, which results in some seeing the selection and procurement process as an onerous task. The truth is that the only thing worse than not using software is implementing bad software.

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UrbanBound HR

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

As 2016 starts to move from the windshield to the rear-view mirror, our hindsight is getting closer to 20/20. While our final report will be out soon, here’s a quick preview of the big stories in relocation from 2016.

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UrbanBound HR

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

HR and technology used to be two words you wouldn't necessarily think to hear in the same sentence. We associated HR with manual, laborious, and time-intensive processes that required human effort to power the engine. And frankly, a lot of processes within the HR umbrella were time-intensive and manual. That, however, has changed.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Millennials are the most mobile generation in history. In their lifetimes, everything from phones to the internet have gone from rooted connections to roaming, unchained necessities in daily life. Their perspective towards a career has done the same, compared to previous generations. An early 2016 Gallup poll found that 60% of millennials were open to new job opportunities.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

As the millennial takeover of the workplace population continues at a rapid pace, your corporate policies need to be updated to reflect the changing expectations of this new generation of employees. For many offices, the first round of millennials caused a fair bit of shock and culture clashing between the various generations in the office. Those initial sparks should be dying down, as employees have had time to settle in and you have had plenty of time to update policies to address the changes.

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UrbanBound HR

OCTOBER 25, 2016

A poor relocation can sour an employee’s relationship with a company, but a poor settlement afterwards can end the relationship completely. Moving to a new area is daunting. The time and mental energy required to learn new routes, meet new people, and understand the cultural quirks of a new city all pile up quickly. On top top of that, employees feel the strain of learning a new position and team of coworkers.

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UrbanBound HR

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The early stages of a relocation program are a lot like the first steps in a relocation. The first piece of information our Relocation Consultants ask for is where a person lives now, and where their destination city is. In the same way, you have to know where you’re starting from in order to get where you’re going.

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UrbanBound HR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Creating your first relocation policy can feel like being dropped in the middle of a desert with a bag of random tools and no map. You may have a bucket of anecdotes about relocations and some vague idea of what should go into a policy, but making use of those tools and navigating your way out of the sand is whole other thing.

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UrbanBound HR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Healthcare and startup tech have a complicated relationship. The nature of healthcare requires thorough testing, approval, re-testing, and re-approval, over and over, in order to move forward with a new technology or process. The reasons for this are obvious, and the risk levels and unknowables of something new are understandable in the healthcare industry.

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UrbanBound HR

AUGUST 30, 2016

As the final remaining 2016 interns are trickling back to campus, relocation professionals, short term housing coordinators, and intern program coordinators all breathe a collective sigh of relief. Another year of summer interns has wrapped up, and with some some breathing room ahead, it’s time to take stock of your program and identify your areas of improvement for 2017.

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AUGUST 23, 2016

Winning millennials’ attention is a big deal. Maintaining that attention is a championship win. Having them retain the information you’re sending out to them is a triumph. And with the barrage of communication methods available to you today, it can be impossible to figure out which recipient received a message at which platform. There are entire software suites centered around managing multiple social media accounts into one dashboard, and that’s exactly what you need to do with your millennials

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UrbanBound HR

AUGUST 15, 2016

We spend years of our lives working through the educational system in order to get the skills needed to obtain the best job we can. But once we have that very first job, should learning instantly come to an end? The answer: No. Learning needs to exceed beyond just what we learn in the classroom and transcend into our roles at work, motivating and inspiring us as we move through our careers.

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UrbanBound HR

AUGUST 9, 2016

Kids these days and increasingly, adults these days, are impossible. They’re distant, constantly on their phones, blunt to the edge of rudeness, and despite being the most connected generation in the history of the world, impossible to communicate with. If you have an innate ability to successfully share information with millennials and then maintain a conversation, you need to quit your job because you have a million dollar skill.

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JULY 5, 2016

While most of your office is still recovering from the long weekend, and anxious for the shortened week to end, now is the perfect time to take stock and look at the progress you are making towards your goals for the year, and see if they’re still the goals you want to be working towards.

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JULY 5, 2016

You never have to worry about missing any HR tech or relocation news with UrbanBound’s weekly news roundup.

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JUNE 28, 2016

The weekly HR Tech and Relocation news is in!

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JUNE 28, 2016

The “death of email” is a favorite subject of business and culture writers, and each new communication tool gets its turn to be the culprit, from voicemail to instant messaging to text messaging to apps like Slack, yet email is still central to daily business.

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JUNE 21, 2016

UrbanBound’s weekly roundup of the top news from HR Tech and Relocation is here!

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JUNE 21, 2016

Transferees have questions. Lots of them. Well, to be more specific, there tend to be three types of transferees: ones with no questions, ones with every question imaginable, and one who ask no questions even though they have every question imaginable and everything goes horribly wrong and you get blindsided and now it’s your problem. Despite doing everything you could, answering any and all questions asked, and guiding the vast majority of your transferees through a successful relocation, the u

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JUNE 14, 2016

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