Integrating ESG into your global mobility approach

In efforts to comply with current regulations, most companies have ESG strategies that focus on cutting emissions for their customer-facing businesses. Now is the time to continue doing the same for internal operations, especially global mobility.

Global mobility professionals manage the entire mobility lifecycle for assignments, which starts the moment an employee receives notice of their relocation, and ends when they return—which can be months or years later. The global mobility practice is historically emission-intensive, and each of the many decisions a global mobility professional must make has an impact on GHG emissions, from determining an employee’s initial transportation to a new location, to choosing employee housing and daily transportation. Importantly, there are many sustainable options available for global mobility professionals.

Emissions are produced not only by long-term assignments and global travel activities. Short-term assignments and local business trips also impact ESG goals. But the emergence and growing acceptance of remote work and hybrid work models are increasingly shaping the current global mobility landscape, and are playing a role in achieving net zero.

10 World Resources Institute, “Business Travel GHG Emissions Analysis,” September 15, 2021.