Whether you're relocating one employee or your entire company, employee relocation referral companies can coordinate everything from shipping their possessions across the country to helping them find the perfect new home. Offering relocation assistance can improve employee retention by making the move easier, and by showing your team you value them enough to invest in their relocation, rather than simply hire new staff.

Use relocation referral services to help your employees:

1. Find temporary or permanent housing.
2. Ship their possessions to their new location, or store them until they can unpack.
3. Safely move their pets.
4. Get oriented into a new culture, with international employment relocation services.
   

Action Steps
The best contacts and resources to help you get it done

Use employee relocation services to help your staff find a new home

An employee's biggest concern, especially if he or she has a family, is probably how to quickly and easily sell their existing home and find a new one. An employee relocation service can assist them in finding permanent housing before they move, or match them with temporary housing in their new location while they house hunt.

I recommend: ERA specializes in corporate relocation, with a relocation network that brings together buyers and sellers. With offices across the country and around the world, the company has relocation specialists in nearly any locale you plan to move to. Fill out the online form to be matched with a relocation expert, who will contact you within 48 hours. BridgeStreet Worldwide, a corporate housing service, can place your relocating employees in temporary accommodations around the world.

Hire a relocation referral service to help employees ship or store their possessions

Your employees may be taking decades-worth of personal possessions, household furnishings, and sentimentally valuable items with them when they relocate. Find an employee relocation referral company that can provide complete move management, and that knows the best way to move everything from vehicles to valuables to beloved family pets.

I recommend: Quantum Relocation offers complete household movement and storage, including automobile and vehicle transfers, and domestic and international relocation of pets. SIRVA's relocation services includes 17 major moving companies around the world.

Help employees and their families adjust to a new city with employment relocation services

Prepare your employees for living and working in a new city, state or even country by finding employee relocation referral services that specialize in introducing people to new cultures. Many companies offer short introductory tours for relocating employees to give them a glimpse of their new city. Other companies focus on helping new residents learn the native culture, language and customs.

I recommend: CORT offers half-day and full-day city tours to relocating employees and their families, and family assistance services including information on local schools. WHR Group offers global assignment services, including area orientations and language and cultural training.

Tips & Tactics

Helpful advice for making the most of this Guide

• •  Choose an employee relocation service with experience in the kind of move you're planning. If you're relocating to another city or state, find a company specializing in domestic relocation. However, if you're moving to another country, you'll need international relocation relocation services for employees, including adjusting to a new culture and obtaining any necessary paperwork for that country.