Unified Global Mobility to accelerate processes and reduce costs

All in one platform to choose desired services, manage and track Mobility progress anywhere – tailored for individuals and HR Teams

...
ARKONE

Join the Movement

...
...

Manage your Movement in One Place

Choose all your relocation and immigration service options and a personal consultant easily!

...
...

Budget and Monitor Costs

Never go over budget with your move! Access total costs for individuals or for your employees before they embark on their journey.

...
...

Make Moves On Time

Be notified of required actions if you are responsible for moving employees to other countries for your organization.

Choose from the most diversified global mobility services in the market

Whether you are HR or an individual, you can find a diverse list of services ranging from basic relocation and immigration offerings to cultural coaching, moving household items and even health and educational services on ARKONE! Find it all in one place!

Connecting Your Move with Ease

...

Simple and Easy to Use Platform

Get notifications of important tasks, choose desired services and manage assignee relocations seamlessly. Once you login our dashboard provides a summary of all key actions and relocation progress.

...

Global Relocation Expertise

We understand that each individual is unique when it comes to what is important to them when they move to another country. Choose one of our professional relocation consultants who are not only experts in their country for basics like housing, visas and work permits, but you can also find out about their interests and backgrounds to get a better match!

...

Save time and Connect to popular HR Tools

With API connections with popular HR tools, save time from tedious data entry and send through tasks through your company Slack to ARKONE directly!

...

We Have You Protected

Data security is a priority for us. We conduct regular security checks with our infrastructure and ensure your personal information with us is safe.

...
...

Take Control of Your Global Mobility Journey

If you want to offer a more seamless relocation experience for your users or showcase your services to a larger audience, ARKONE enables you to build your own community.

Frequently Asked Questions

Technology and Human Connectivity in Global Mobility

How does technology and human connections complement and create synergy together? What role does technology play in the world of relocation and immigration? Discover some of the key concepts and answers to some of these questions on the future of global mobility and technology.

Global Mobility is traditionally an HR related function referring to companies transferring or relocating employees across borders to other office locations. This can be for short term or long-term assignments. Global mobility is not limited to corporate transfers only as individuals are also increasingly making their way across borders for work, education or just general life purposes on their own accord.

For HR professionals, transferring employees or moving as an individual across borders requires many administrative procedures. This includes applications for residence and work permits, housing, and for families with children, search for schools. Within each of these requests, many processes are required that can be complicated and convoluted for the average individual and HR team.

A big challenge in the GM industry is the disjointed communications between all relevant stakeholders in the processes mentioned previously. For each category of search or application – housing, education, visas and permits, there are different stakeholders with likely diverse language proficiencies involved. Without a centralised way to collaborate, one can see how this can create significant chaos and delays for the relocation or immigration process. Some other more common GM challenges include:

  • Immigration Policies and Regulations: Immigration laws and policies can be complex and vary greatly from one country to another. Navigating these regulations can be challenging for individuals and organizations alike, especially when it comes to obtaining work permits, visas, and residency permits.
  • Compliance and Taxation: Managing compliance with local labor laws, tax regulations, and social security requirements is essential to avoid legal risks and financial penalties. Understanding the tax implications of international assignments for both employees and employers is crucial.
  • Logistics and Relocation Costs: Organizing international relocations involves logistical challenges such as finding housing, arranging transportation, and shipping belongings. These logistical tasks can be time-consuming and costly for both individuals and organizations.
  • Compensation: Aspects which need to be considered are cost of living, taxation, currency fluctuations, benefits and allowances, global compensation equity, compensation differentials, retention/incentives, and repatriation (in this context, reintegration in the home country's compensation structure).
  • Intercultural Communication/Collaboration Challenges: Moving to a new country often involves adapting to a different culture, language, and social norms. Cultural differences can impact communication, work practices, and personal relationships, leading to misunderstandings and conflicts. In a work environment, multicultural teams require effective communication and collaboration skills. Language barriers, different communication styles, and cultural norms can hinder effective teamwork and productivity.

With some of the key challenges mentioned in GM, it is clear that a centralised solution can ease some of the obstacles. With Noah Mobility’s ARKONE platform, all relevant stakeholders involved in relocating an employee or individual abroad can monitor and manage processes remotely. They simply need to log into our platform or mobile app where they can track all the details related to the relocation progress of the employee.

  • One Snapshot view to monitor assignee relocation progress.
  • Manage budget (for HR teams) and assign budget for services to employees.
  • Save time by sending task instructions and importing assignee details directly to ARKONE through some of our API integrations with popular HR tools.
  • For individuals and employees, choose from diverse relocation and immigration service options that include cultural coaching and moving services.

With ARKONE’s Ask Noah bot, users will also be able to ask questions on the platform related to global mobility and will be provided instantly with relevant information.

Global Mobility is a service-oriented industry which means that humans play a key role in creating successful GM experiences for all stakeholders. This means that technology’s role is meant to complement the human services provider in the world of GM. With ARKONE, you will find exceptional complementary support.

  • Users can choose their own professional relocation consultant in ARKONE. Once matched, the consultant will work with the user through their relocation procedures.
  • HR teams can monitor the progress of their employee’s relocation activity (e.g. Work permit application, housing application etc...) through ARKONE. If there are actions that are needed from HR, they will be notified instantly through the platform. This notification alerts the HR team’s human response, whether contacting a Noah Mobility consultant or a simple activity such as submitting a work-related document on the employee’s behalf.
  • Relocated individuals and assignees may want to learn more about their new country’s culture for work/personal purposes. They may also be interested in familiarizing themselves with key sights, events and other services in their new home. ARKONE offers these services and more on its platform. Once these services are chosen, they are connected to the relevant service provider and can meet them face to face for discussion.

The way in which people work has already changed with remote and hybrid work cultures still prevalent in society. This culture is sustained with the various technologies that enable people to connect with each other quickly and easily with a simple internet connection. These technologies have also helped expedite services and processes in the global mobility industry. With platforms like ARKONE, all relevant stakeholders in the relocation process can connect, communicate and monitor activities through the platform. In the next few years, the human component in global mobility will still be crucial but may lessen due to advances in AI technology and data analytics. When AI and data analytics become more advanced, likely in the longer term, some potential use cases in GM may require some human monitoring of processes, but perhaps minimal requirement for human interactions. A couple of use cases:

  • With enough data across many scenarios, analytics can accurately predict preferred services and even estimated times for relocation or immigration to various countries. This would involve analytic models on housing search, visa applications and even school search for designated locations.
  • An advanced AI customer representative would be able to detect negative and positive sentiment in user requests through voice or text. Coupled with the AI’s access to all required data to respond accurately to questions, they would also be able to respond in a manner geared towards the sentiment of the user asking the question.

At present, AI still has its limitations, but we already see how fast improvements can be made. One significant aspect in global mobility that may continue to require human assistance is correspondence with governmental bodies. Government organisations will unlikely allow connectivity to private platforms to expedite services, nor will they all offer more advanced technological service support, especially the less developed countries in the world.