For Global Mobility Managers

You Find Out an Assignment Is Failing
When the Employee Asks to Come Home.

Bearings changes that. Live visibility into every active assignee. Predictive risk flags 6–12 weeks before failure becomes inevitable. ROI reports that justify your budget to the CFO — computed automatically, not compiled manually.

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What You Get That Doesn't Exist Anywhere Else

The Data Your RMC Doesn't Have

6hrs
Population snapshot refresh cadence — not monthly HRIS exports
10
Validated early warning patterns covering the full assignment lifecycle
8wks
Typical lead time before the Early Warning Engine detects what becomes an early return request
$300k
Industry average cost of a single prevented early return at a senior assignment level
Population Health Dashboard

See Every Assignee. Not Just Where They Are — How They're Actually Doing.

Your HRIS tells you who is on assignment and where. Bearings tells you how they are adjusting, which domains are stagnating, whether the partner is enrolled, and which assignments are quietly heading toward early return.

  • Live cultural progress across 6 domains per assignee — updated every 6 hours, not monthly
  • Engagement rate as a leading indicator: consistent decline precedes sentiment drop by 2–3 weeks
  • Partner enrollment status alongside the employee — the most overlooked risk signal in global mobility
  • Destination portfolio view: how are all my Japan assignees doing as a cohort?
  • Milestone completion tracker: pre-departure coaching, partner enrollment, month-3 review, repatriation brief
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Population Map — Tokyo Cohort (6 Assignees)
78%
Avg Cultural Progress
1
Active Risk Flag
Domain Progress — Marcus R. (At Risk)
Workplace
71%
Social
29%
Language
44%
Family
38%
Healthcare
68%
Engagement — 8 weeks▼ Declining 3 weeks
Early Warning Engine

Detect Assignment Failure 6–12 Weeks Before the Phone Call Comes

The platform monitors 10 validated risk signal patterns across every active assignee — continuously. When a pattern fires, the mobility manager receives a prioritised intervention card with a plain-language explanation and a specific recommended action.

  • Post-Honeymoon Withdrawal, Partner Isolation Risk, Culture Shock Trough — 10 patterns in total
  • Plain-language explanation of what is happening — no data literacy required to act on it
  • "See what to say" expands a specific action script: email copy, talking points, or outreach message
  • Outcome tracking: 30-day and 90-day follow-up tells the system which interventions worked
  • High-severity flags fire email alerts immediately; medium severity batched in daily digest
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Intervention Queue — 2 Items This Week
Marcus R. · Tokyo · Week 9
Post-Honeymoon Withdrawal
High
Engagement dropped sharply after 8 weeks of high activity. This pattern is consistent with culture shock onset and precedes early return requests when untreated.
Sarah K. · Amsterdam · Week 8
Partner Isolation Risk
Medium
Partner not enrolled after 8 weeks. Family domain stagnating at 31% — below the 45% expected at this stage.
Programme Analytics & ROI

The Report Your CFO Needs — Generated Automatically.

Assignment completion rate vs. industry benchmark. Cost avoidance from prevented early returns. Cultural adjustment velocity by cohort. These numbers don't exist anywhere in the current market. Bearings generates them automatically — without three days of manual spreadsheet work.

  • Completion rate vs. industry benchmark — updated monthly, compared to prior quarter automatically
  • Cost avoidance calculation: prevented early returns × your average assignment cost, with confidence labels
  • Quarterly executive report auto-generated as PDF, delivered to configured recipients
  • Origin-destination heatmap: which pairings are hardest in your specific programme?
  • Annual Programme Intelligence Report generated every January — specific recommendations, not generic best practice
Explore Programme Analytics →
Q3 Programme Health — Example Organisation
89%
Completion Rate
Benchmark: 65%
$2.4M
Cost Avoidance YTD
8× programme cost
Cultural Progress vs. Benchmark
Workplace
78%
Social
61%
Language
54%
Family
67%
Healthcare
72%
↑ Social domain +8pp vs. Q2 — partner enrollment campaign effective

Destination Intelligence

Know What Is Hard About Every Destination Before You Send Someone There

Difficulty scores, typical adjustment curves, top friction points, and partner integration ratings for every destination — built from real assignment outcome data, not surveys or cultural theory. Updated monthly as new assignments complete.

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Difficulty Score (0–10)
Overall difficulty per destination from a North American baseline. Per-domain difficulty across all 6 cultural domains. Computed from actual completion rates and adjustment velocity.
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Typical Adjustment Curve
Expected progress at weeks 4, 8, 12, and 24 — shown as a range band, not a single line. Your cohort vs. benchmark plotted on the same chart.
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Top 3 Friction Points
Specific friction points documented most frequently by assignees to this destination. Named and described in plain language — actual situations, not dimension labels.
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The Coaching Layer — What Your People Actually Get

The Intelligence Is Only Possible Because the Coaching Is Real.

The population health signals, early warning patterns, and ROI model all come from coaching sessions that employees actually complete — because the coaching is genuinely useful. Not a compliance checkbox. Not a welcome pack they forget in a folder.

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AI Cultural Mentor — 24/7
On-demand coaching for every professional situation. Calibrated to the specific city the assignee is actually in — not the national stereotype. Gets more specific as it learns who they're dealing with via contact notes.
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City-Level Intelligence
Berlin and Munich are different cultures. The assignee going to a Munich client meeting from their Berlin base gets Munich norms — not Berlin norms. Validated city profiles for every destination in your programme.
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Contact Intelligence
Private dossier on key recurring contacts — clients, counterparts, colleagues. 14 months of observed behavioural patterns about Tanaka-san is more useful than knowing Japanese business culture. Never visible to your team.
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Calendar Coaching
Automatic cultural brief before every calendar event with a cross-cultural counterpart. If the assignee travels from their home base to a client in another city, the brief is calibrated to the meeting city — not where they're based.
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Partner & Family Track
Full coaching for accompanying partners and children — daily life norms, school transitions, community integration. 73% currently get nothing. Partners pay 50% of the assignee seat. The investment that protects your main investment.
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Field Missions
Weekly real-world cultural tasks calibrated to the specific destination city and adjustment stage. Mission completion rate is the most reliable engagement proxy Bearings generates — and a leading indicator in the early warning system.

What Compounds

Every In-Person Trainer Walks Out With Nothing.
Bearings Accumulates What No Trainer Ever Has.

The connection between specific cultural coaching and specific assignment outcomes. Logged from day one. Getting more accurate with every assignment that completes in the platform.

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Coaching Delivered
Every mentor session, calendar brief, mission, and debrief is logged against the full cultural context — origin city, destination city, encounter type, domain.
02
Outcomes Tracked
Assignment completion, early return, repatriation — all linked back to the coaching signals that preceded them. The outcome tracking grows with every assignment.
03
Patterns Improve
The early warning engine gets more accurate. City profiles get calibrated against real user experience. Predictions become more specific for your destination mix.
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Your Programme Benefits
Every completed assignment in the platform makes the predictions better for the next cohort. Proprietary data that no competitor can replicate without the same user base.

See Your Programme Through Different Eyes.

30 minutes. Live population dashboard, early warning scenario, destination profiles for your top 5 destinations, and a cost avoidance estimate from your numbers.

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FAQ

Common Questions

What data does the dashboard use?
Platform engagement data — missions, mentor sessions, check-ins, calendar coaching completions. Cultural domain progress scores. Partner enrollment and activity status. The dashboard never surfaces individual coaching conversation content — only aggregate signals that indicate programme health.
How does the Early Warning Engine decide severity?
Severity is based on historical correlation with early returns in the platform's outcome dataset. A pattern with 35%+ correlation fires as High. Above 50% fires as Critical. Single signals don't fire — it's combinations that matter. Thresholds update as new outcome data accumulates.
What is city-level intelligence and why does it matter for managers?
city profiles give the coaching system city-level precision instead of country averages. For managers this matters because destination difficulty ratings — used in the Destination Intelligence module — are calibrated at city level, not country level. A Tokyo assignment and an Osaka assignment have different difficulty profiles even within the same country.
Can I see which individual employees are at risk?
Named individual alerts are shown to the mobility manager with severity and recommended intervention. Anonymised-only mode is available for compliance-sensitive environments. Individual coaching content is never visible — only the risk signals that indicate a pattern.
How is cost avoidance calculated?
Prevented early returns (Bearings completion rate minus comparison rate, times assignee count) multiplied by your average assignment cost. If you provide actual cost data, that is used. Otherwise the industry benchmark is applied, clearly labeled. Computed automatically, updated quarterly, included in every executive report.
What does it take to get started?
A 30-minute demo call. We configure the dashboard for your destination mix, connect your calendar system, and set up the first pilot cohort. No contract required for the pilot. First assignees active within a week of the kickoff call.