With layoffs coming, I'm assuming not great, but younger and interested in an overseas assignment.
Not looking for barrage of negativity, just some answers on what options are available, if any.
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Ex-pat is extremely rare - even transfers to a different county at "in country pay" assignments are rare except for very isolated cases of very senior people or extremely unique and proven skills needed. If you want international assignments this is not company that does that anymore.. suggest you move to a much smaller company
Gentlemans agreement. Sorry. Typed too fast
I am an expat who moved to the US. That was about 10 years ago and no moving expenses were paid. HP did however pay the immigration lawyers. In some cases they may be prepared to pay but don't bank on it. Also. Be aware that it depends greatly where you plan to move. If you move to a country you are paid accordingly to their scale so moving to a high cost country may not be an option. You will also have to move
To a center such as Alpharetta , Bangalore etc to work in the office. Last point . I did not have to sign anything saying I would pay back the immigration expenses but there was a gentle and agreement I would stay for a year once the last invoice was paid
Good luck
No negativity, you say? Don’t get too wrapped up in your rose-colored glasses, I advise, for your own good…
Do you recall what happened at the collapse of Enron quite a few years ago? People showed up at their new jobs at Enron on Monday morning, having moved their families and/or belongings and quit their old jobs… Having believed Enron’s promise to reimburse their moving expenses after they took their new jobs… And were told… Paraphrasing here… “Thanks for showing up at your new job, but it’s not here anymore. And you’re on your own, on those moving expenses”.
When I moved to take a new job, my new employer told me, likewise, that I’d be paid back after I was at the new job and the money was spent. They did pay up… But if I quit before spending one year there at my new job, I’d have to pay them the moving money back (which did not happen, I was OK).
Anyway, heads I win, tails you lose kind of thing… They can yank the rug out of under your feet, and get away with it, but not vice versa! Get it IN WRITING that they will pay you your moving expenses, whether HPE declares bankruptcy or not, or any other dodge, if they are not willing to PRE-PAY you your moving expenses! And, after you take your new job in India or Elbownia or Stanstanstanstanstanistan, prepare for the possibility of being laid off over there, with no one picking up the bill to bring you back!