These updates allow assignment requests to be assessed more efficiently and ensure that cost projections, compliance checks, and balance sheet calculations are based on the most accurate and complete information from the start.

This article explains what has changed and how to use the revised fields correctly.

The updated intake form now:

These changes reduce ambiguity, improve compliance handling, and enable more accurate documentation and cost projections.

The assignment purpose section has been expanded and clarified to better distinguish between different business scenarios.

Below is an overview of the available options and when to select them.

Group Governance / Strategic Oversight

Assignment to exercise group-level governance and strategic oversight in the host environment, ensuring adherence to group policies, controls, and decision standards. Includes escalation authority to HQ and protection of group-wide compliance and risk frameworks.

Temporary (Critical) Role Coverage

Temporary or strategic coverage of a host-country role to ensure business continuity, where the position would otherwise be filled by a local hire.

Operational Support / Business Continuity Support

Temporary operational capacity to support day-to-day business activities (e.g., peak workload, backfill, stabilisation).

Project Management / Project Delivery

Assignment to lead, coordinate, or deliver an internal group project with defined scope and timeline (e.g., implementation, integration, transformation).

Client Relationship Management

Assignment focused on managing or strengthening key client relationships in the host country.

Knowledge Transfer

Assignment to transfer expertise, systems, processes, or best practices to the host entity.

Training / Skill Acquisition

Assignment primarily intended for hands-on training or exposure in the host entity, with the goal of applying acquired skills upon return.

Trainee Programme

Structured, time-limited assignment as part of a formal graduate or trainee programme.

Leadership / Management Development

Assignment involving a formal management role abroad to develop leadership capabilities.

Career Assignment

Assignment forming part of a long-term career or succession plan (e.g., required international experience for progression). Typically initiated by the assignee.

Market Entry

Temporary assignment to explore, set up, or establish operations in a new market (no or not yet fully operational host entity).

Market Expansion

Assignment to scale existing operations, grow market share, or manage post-merger integration.

Business Development

Assignment focused on generating new commercial opportunities for the group overall, not solely for the host country.

Employee is sent to deliver services directly to a client (e.g., implementation, consulting, installation).

Employee is integrated into the client’s workforce and the client directs the work.

Free-text option for scenarios not covered above.

Address entry is now structured and partially automated.

You can enter the main address information, and the system will auto-suggest and populate related fields such as:

This reduces input errors and improves consistency across documentation.

The intake form is now highly customized depending on the combination of home and host countries.

This means:

As a result, users only see relevant questions, and unnecessary fields are avoided.

The cost bearer and recharge section has been expanded to provide more clarity on cost bearer position and beneficiary between home and host countries.

This includes:

The increased granularity increases accuracy in the assessment and allows for more detailed input from the customer when they have a specific situation in mind already that they want to check.

The form now adapts dynamically based on:

Depending on the selection, additional relevant questions are triggered automatically.

This ensures that immigration, tax, schooling, relocation, and benefit considerations are captured early and correctly.

The intake form now asks whether valid visas or visa waivers are already in place.

This helps:

Future versions will sync this information directly from employee profiles to reduce manual input.

The form now allows detailed information on the specific benefits the employer intends to grant to the assignee.

This information directly feeds into:

The benefits are grouped into the following categories:

(e.g., salary adjustments, allowances, premiums)

(e.g., tax services, immigration support)

(e.g., relocation support, repatriation support)

(e.g., schooling support, spouse assistance)

All benefit fields are highly customized to ensure detailed and accurate documentation.

The revised intake form:

By selecting the most accurate options and completing all relevant fields carefully, assignment assessments can be handled more efficiently and with greater precision.