The Harmony Relocation Network has recently updated its membership criteria. According to Paul Bernardt, Harmony’s Managing Director, the changes have been implemented to bring the rules more into line with the needs of the current market.

Sarah Dennis, Head of International at Towergate Health & Protection in the UK urges employers to ensure that employees are fully covered for healthcare now Britain has left the EU.

Now we are all slowly coming out of enforced isolation, one wonders how standards have suffered? This applies as much to personal standards as it does to business ones.

Atlas World Group, Inc, the parent company of Atlas Van Lines, has announced that Kelly Foreman has been named vice president of human resources for Atlas Van Lines.

On 20 May, Germany passed new legislation that will allow driverless vehicles, including autonomous taxis, on public roads by 2022.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to create havoc across the world, FIDI has been monitoring the developments very closely.

Following the 2019-2020 catastrophic Australian bushfires, Grace Worldwide Australia recognised the urgent need to act on climate change and has partnered with Greenfleet with the aim to completely offset carbon emissions generated by the company’s fleet. ​

The OMNI Board has confirmed that Ian Waters is to retire from his position as general manager of the organisation with effect from April 2022.

Millions of Britons are set to move home permanently, as a consequence of the pandemic, according to new research by property developer Romal Capital, a property developing company from Liverpool. The main drivers are remote working and quality of life.

In a press release issued on 1 June, Transport for London (TfL) claims that its Direct Vision Standard (DVS), introduced in March this year, is “already helping to save lives” and warns of a further tightening of regulations in 2024.

The American Trucking Association’s Moving & Storage Conference is holding a national event from 15-17 November, 2021 in Hilton Downtown, Austin, Texas.

Global mobility specialist BGRS and technology company UNLSH Mobility, have announced a partnership to bring its all-new sustainability program, ecolegIT for the global mobility industry, to BGRS clients.

A new report from the STEP Project Global Consortium and KPMG Private Enterprise has demonstrated how the unique structure of family businesses has empowered them to respond to the impact of COVID-19.

Steve Jordan looks at the benefits of experience and the impetuousness of youth and considers what it is the moving industry needs now.

In this Q&A article, Brielle Jones, Manager Marketing and Sales for TriGlobal, gives her opinion about some of the challenges faced by moving companies worldwide as the world changes, and what they might do to meet them.

In this Q&A-style interview, Rennie Schaefer, Chief Executive Officer at Self Storage Association UK and FEDESSA, talks to Mike Wilson, CEO of SureStore, about institutional investors, expansion, 5th-generation stores, finding good sites and post-COVID challenges.

Kristin White, Senior Manager, Content and Campaign Strategy for Sterling Lexicon, looks at how the increased flexibility available from remote working raises opportunities and challenges.

Lynn Shotwell is the president and CEO of Worldwide ERC (Employee Relocation Council). She’s been in her new role since March 2020, an interesting time for anyone to have a change of job. Steve Jordan spoke to her about the new world of relocation, how it has changed and how will it continue to operate in the future.

Steve Jordan interviews Casey Phelps of Graebel following the company’s release of an extraordinary survey report showing that COVID has made people want to move with work more than in the past, not less.

Highland cattle seem to revel in having long hair - I’m afraid I don’t! As far as us Homo sapiens are concerned it’s very much a male/female thing I suppose.