IBC 4.0

A temporary transfer of an employee to another country/office while still remaining employed by tte original company

Secondment

Strongly connected and actively involved in a system

Firmly plugged into

Traveling repeatedly across different places in many directions

Criss-crossing

To transfer professional knowledge and business practices from advanced economies to growing ones

Skills from mature to developing economies

One half of the earth, northern/southern or eastern/western

Hemisphere

To leave one’s home to more somewhere else

To uproot oneself (themselves)

A problem or obstacle that makes progress difficult

Hurdle

Workers are willing to move between locations

Mobile workers

Existing for a long time

Longstanding

Highly ambitious person is expected to achieve a lot in his career

A high-flyer person

To limit

To cap

Turnover rate / churn rate. The percentage of employees leaving a company or department over a period of time

Attrition rates

A disappointing situation that feel less exiting or important than expected

Anticlimax

In an extremely urgent, serious, intensive way

Desparately

Prise and recognition for an achievement or good performance

Kudos

Possible ways, methods or opportunities to achieve something

Avenues

Loyalty of emotional connection to countries, groups, ideas

Allegiances

The period of preparation before something important begins

Lead-in time

A husband or wife who relocates abroad because of their partner’s international job or assignment

Trailing spouse

A lifestyle involving constant travel or frequent relocation from place to place

Peripatetic life

Extremely unhappy, depressed

Miserable

It must end earlier than planned

It has to be cut short

Work assignments in another country for a temporary period of time

Overseas postings

People who live and work in a foreign country, usually because of their job

Expatriates (expats)

The children who live abroad because their parents work in another country

Expat children

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