SAVING THE EARTH, ONE ASSIGNMENT AT A TIME Another challenge for mobility professionals is the balance between the cost (financial and environmental) of shipping furniture home or onto the next assignment, versus disposing of it. Crown World Mobility is exploring options for
sustainably discarding or donating unwanted items during relocations. The process can be challenging due to the lack of consistent solutions across different countries. “We are looking to partner with a company
globally that will either sustainably discard of unwanted items or donate them,” explains Caitlin Pyett, Crown World Mobility’s director of account management in APAC. “So, when an assignee is looking at all their goods that they could potentially ship on or store, they have the option of taking a sustainable approach to disposing of the items they don’t want, either via donation or sustainable discarding. “The first thing we did when we started
population and is expected to account for 27% of the workforce by 2025. This shift has opened eyes in the C-suite to the need to provide accommodation, such as home stay and co-living, that appeals to those travellers. “Demand for and supply of serviced living – fully
furnished accommodation including kitchen facilities, with some private and communal spaces – are growing,” the report says. “That’s because they are cheaper to rent and profitable to build. In London, serviced living grew by 26.7% in 2022, with further growth predicted.” Serviced apartments increasingly offer hybrid
workspaces, catering to remote workers, assignees and digital nomads who seek a comfortable and productive environment for both work and leisure. The sharing economy, popular among younger assignees and travellers, a desire to combine work and travel, and the ability to have a more flexible working life have all helped drive the change.
“ Not all organisations are looking at it from a sustainability angle just yet, although it is something that some forward-looking companies are now very aware of.”
CAITLIN PYETT, DIRECTOR OF ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT – APAC, CROWN WORLD MOBILITY
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was to go out to each of the countries around the world where Crown has a presence and say to them, ‘what do you currently do?’ We know that in some countries we already have arrangements with the Salvation Army, for example, or with local charities who will come in. In Thailand, there is an arrangement with local temples to donate unwanted furniture.” However, she says it soon became clear
that every country was different and had its own challenges around managing the process of donating, reusing and recycling. “It took us several months to gather this
information and it was a real patchwork,” she says. “The more remote the country, the less likely it is that there’s any kind of solution in place at present. “We were hoping that one country would
have the answer so that we could extrapolate out across the rest of the world, but that wasn’t the case. It was just way too patchy. We have had to go away and source another solution that we can roll out on a global basis. It is challenging, and there aren’t many companies out there that have that capability, but we are working towards it.”
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