More and more international assignees on a long-term contract are leaving their partner and/or family behind. This is one of the findings in the Global Relocation Trends 2013 Survey Report published by Brookfield GRS.
About 20% of assignees who are married or are in a serious relationship leave for an assignment abroad on their own. That number has been relatively stable over the last few years. What has changed within that group is the percentage of assignees going abroad on a long-term contract – a sharp rise from 37% to 45%.
Family concerns, the career of the partner, and fear of the loss of a double income in times of continued financial instability in many parts of the world, are the likely causes of a rise in the number of split families, the report says.
