Key Drivers of the Research

SIRVA undertook the Australian Domestic Mobility research for a number of reasons:

• Lack of readily available benchmark data and trends on mobility policy and practices in Australia make for a particularly challenging HR environment
• Shortage of skills in growth areas, will require the mobility of people into capital and regional cities, with the combination of competitive recruitment and remuneration strategies vital for attracting, recruiting and retaining employees
• Sustained and/or growing levels of employee mobility throughout Australia
• To address the complexity and breathtaking speed of change coupled with the need to fill a reported four million job vacancies (according to Skills Australia Report, 2010).

Objectives of the Research

• Provide HR professionals with an elementary framework with which to stay current, and track changes in, mobility policy components for capital and regional cities across multiple industry sectors
• Better understand variances in assignment types and policy applications
• Enable a further exploration of emerging policy trends and administration practices
• Challenge traditional thinking versus flexible and fit for purpose policy
• Understand critical HR and mobility challenges faced by companies in Australia
• Enable HR professionals to seek out alternative approaches to policy for capital and regional locations and identify potential strategies for more effectively managing cost and assignments
• Provide biennial updates.

Key Features of the SIRVA Australia Mobility Report

The report is a framework that provides:

• Benchmark comparative data on policy and practices differentiated
  according to:
  
  - Key Assignments:
  • Short term (up to 12 months)
  • Long term (up to four years)
  • Permanent one way moves
  
  - Variances in entitlement between capital and regional cities
  
  - Assignment management
  
  
• One overall report and 4 separate industry reports.