Team Relocations Joins SIRVA

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Team Relocations Is Now SIRVA Worldwide Relocation & Moving!

SIRVA as a global leader in moving and relocation services offers unmatched global breadth and innovative technology, complementing Team Relocations’ longstanding reputation for high quality moving and relocation solutions to some of the world’s leading multinational organisations.

Our resources combine the unique talents and expertise of leaders across a broad scope of mobility-related services. This synthesis is a key part of our commitment to provide our clients and their employees with the best moving and relocation experience possible.

By combining Team Relocations with SIRVA, we offer 75 office locations worldwide with over 2900 employees operating in 180+ countries. Customers benefit from our:

  • End to End Service Delivery Model from departure to destination. We will help you with everything including visa and immigration, employee counselling and VIP services. Our relocation specialists are here to help. 
  • Client Advisory Services.We will work with you, according to your specific needs, to achieve more efficient and high-quality relocations. SIRVA offers a multitude of client financial services, from lump sum to expense management, which are designed to help ease the financial burden of relocating your employees. We can assist in compensation and payroll administration, vendor management, intern management programmes, group move management, and management reporting. 
  • Home and Mortgage Services. From home finding to tenancy management, we can help ease the process of moving and help relocating employees have one less thing to worry about.
  • Moving Services. We can help you and your employees get to where they need to be. Whether moving to a new house, a new office or trying to relocate a pet, we have the resources to help make the process go as smoothly as possible for your employees. 
  • Technology Solutions.Our innovative and flexible technology solutions have been developed you and your employees in mind: easy-to-use, intuitive and helps to save time and resources, whilst enhancing reporting capabilities. We continue to invest in order to improve the relocation process for both mobility teams and relocating employees. 

 

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Why Intercultural Training Is Essential for a Borderless Workforce

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  • 12 February 2026 05:00:37

As organisations expand across borders, manage global talent, and navigate complex mergers and acquisitions, cultural intelligence has become a critical business capability. Intercultural training (ICT) helps multinational organisations turn cultural diversity into a competitive advantage, driving collaboration, reducing risk, and enabling sustainable growth.

Intercultural training goes beyond surface-level etiquette. It builds self-awareness, strengthens communication, and equips employees to lead, collaborate, and make decisions effectively across cultures. In a globally connected workforce, people skills are just as important as technical expertise.

Sirva's Hannah Richardson, Senior Vice President, Global Strategic Services and WERC Service Provider Advisory Council member, recently wrote an article for WERC, Why Intercultural Training Matters for a Borderless Workforce, exploring the importance of intercultural training to ensuring global mobility success. Following are a few of the key highlights from the article.

ICT Delivers Real Business Results for Your Organization

Organizations that invest in ICT see stronger collaboration, more agile and inclusive teams, and faster trust-building in new markets. Cultural awareness reduces misunderstandings, improves innovation, and supports successful market entry, negotiations, and partnerships.

In mergers and acquisitions, where culture clashes are a leading cause of failure, intercultural training plays a vital role in due diligence and post-merger integration. It helps to align values, retain talent, and protect deal value.

Intercultural Training Elevates Mobility Results

Employees who receive cultural preparation adapt faster and are less likely to experience assignment failure or early repatriation. Supporting accompanying partners and families is especially important, as family dissatisfaction remains one of the top reasons international assignments fail. By addressing well-being and adjustment for the whole family, organisations improve retention, ROI, and long-term talent development.

Beyond individual assignments, ICT can support broader organisational goals, by contributing to lower turnover, higher engagement, and stronger employer branding. This can help your organisation attract and retain talent in competitive markets. When embedded into mobility policies and leadership development, intercultural training fosters a learning organisation with a global mindset, inclusive culture, and greater resilience.

From Mobility to Mindset: The Role of Intercultural Training

In a borderless world of work, intercultural fluency is no longer optional. By making intercultural training a standard part of global mobility and talent strategies, organisations can reduce risk, unlock performance, and connect their people to new opportunities. To learn more, read the full article on WERC's website.

Ready to build strategies that ensure your future success? Contact Sirva's Global Advisory Services team at GlobalAdvisory@sirva.com to learn more.



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