Full Report
2026 full report
The State of Global Mobility
A sharper commercial map of the mobility and relocation ecosystem, connecting volume, cost, revenue, and profit across markets, policies, and provider verticals.
- 130+
- destination markets
- 12
- policy designs
- 30+
- services and allowances
- 2015-2028
- history and outlook
Mobility has not vanished.
It has diversified into a larger, more targeted, more investable ecosystem.
Why this is different
Most mobility studies show fragments. This report connects the economic engine.
One chain, not five separate conversations
See how relocation starts translate into employer-funded spend, provider revenue, and profit pools across the ecosystem.
Domestic and cross-border, side by side
Compare classic expatriate moves with domestic relocations across long term assignments, permanent transfer, local plus packages and more.
Commercially useful market resolution
Move from broad sentiment to practical cuts by geography, policy type, benefit mix, service vertical, and provider archetype.
Built for decisions
Choose your lens.
Different buyers use the same dataset for different decisions, from budgets to market entry to platform strategy.
Corporate HR, mobility, reward
Defend budgets with a real market baseline.
- Benchmark mobility spend by policy type, benefit design, and route.
- Pressure-test the cost gap between rich and lean package designs.
- Plan HR capacity and operating model productivity with external context.
Inside the full report
Detailed enough for strategy, clean enough to use.
Mobility volumes
Market sizing and outlook for corporate relocations and assignments, including domestic versus cross-border flows and shifts in policy mix.
The money
Employer-funded spend across the ecosystem, broken down by policy type, benefit, service vertical, region, country, margin profile, and provider archetype.
The corporate lens
How programs, policies, and HR capacity shape mobility cost, employee experience, operating productivity, and outcomes.
Geographic dynamics
Where activity and value concentrate, how regional patterns differ, and how package costs vary by route and policy archetype.
Outlook to 2028
Scenario views on volume growth, spend rebalancing, profit pool shifts, and the impact of technology-enabled planning, pricing, and service delivery.
What you receive
A commercial atlas for a market that has been under-measured.
- Report narrative with charts and tables summarizing the core patterns.
- Regional and selected country-level mobility volume and spend breakdowns.
- Policy-type volumes and cost benchmarks for cross-border and domestic moves.
- Profitability and growth benchmarks by service category and provider archetype.
- Optional bespoke cuts by region, industry, policy type, benefit mix, or vertical.
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