Greetings and welcome to our fourth and final Nav of 2021. I hope this holiday season is ripe with interactions among friends and family and these final days of 2021 are a period of restoration for your health, wellness and spirit.
Regardless of how and where you celebrate the end of 2021, it’s inevitable that we’ll all reflect and characterize our individual and collective journeys over these past twelve months. Coming out of 2020, expectations were high for a return to “normal,” especially with the distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Held in Chicago, Illinois, during Worldwide ERC's Global Workforce Symposium, Altair Global hosted its fifth annual, invitation-only awards ceremony recognizing our supplier partners’ outstanding achievements. Designed to showcase their exceptional performance and dedication to the customer experience, the 2021 Supplier Partnership Awards represented a variety of categories. We honored 12 exceptional partnerships with Altair, as well as Move For Hunger’s award for going above and beyond in food collection and donations.
Real Estate & Data: Learning from the Missteps of Zillow
In mid-October 2021, iBuying giant, Zillow Offers, announced it was pausing buying activity through the end of the year, initially citing “operational capacity” issues. By early November, after three years of ramping up—due to major financial losses—Zillow would be exiting the iBuying market entirely, resulting in a 25% reduction in their workforce.
Post-pandemic Mobility Policies: What Can We Expect in 2022?
Altair’s Global Consulting Services team has reflected upon the notable changes they’ve observed over the last 18 months as a result of the pandemic and the residual impacts. Their hope is that this compiled list will prove to be a validation for changes you may be considering for your company’s program as we head into a new year.
From Internship to Partnership: the Altair Global and UT Dallas Relationship
While Altair Global values all our partnerships, the relationship we’ve cultivated with the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) is unique. In this article, we’d like to highlight how this connection has grown from an intern’s first job to a full-blown corporate partnership and how Altair Global and UT Dallas interact today to mutually grow and transform global mobility.
In this on-demand webinar, Altair Global's Vice President of Open Innovation, Ryan Agee, joins David Berson, SVP and Chief Economist at Nationwide, and Jennifer Martinez, SVP of Strategy Implementation and Strategic Partnerships at HUB, to discuss market data trends and their impact on the job market, location preference and mobility.
Team members joined together at our Frisco headquarters to celebrate Diwali, the festival of lights, complete with henna tattoos and traditional food.
Altair Global's Kathryn Cassidy and Chad Sterling pose for a picture with Peyton Manning at Goodwill's The Lunch event on October 26th.
Altair Global had a great time being back in person in Chicago where we hosted a booth and sponsored Worldwide ERC's Global Workforce Symposium.
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