The term “stealth expat” was first introduced in the fall of 2003 by GVS (Global Vista Solutions, now part by Fragomen) during a presentation at the Worldwide ERC Global Workforce Symposium. In early 2005, Cendant Mobility (now Cartus) shocked the global mobility world with the first statistics around this phenomenon. Nearly 80% of the companies surveyed knew or strongly suspected they had stealth expats, and the vast majority discovered them by chance.
Written for Mobility magazine by Michael Cadden, SGMS, Managing Director-International Operations, Living Abroad LLC and Robert Horsley of Fragomen.
July 2012 – Read the full article here.