“employee experience” is more than a buzzword to us—it’s our passion and our purpose
Working with Cartus as a trusted guide allows you and your employees to focus on your core business while taking advantage of our global experience, investment in technology, and relationships with the best networks in the world.
Available across the globe and around the clock, our experts become an extension of your team. Your relocating employees receive personalized assistance through a single point of accountability—their Cartus consultant—guiding them every step of the way, minimizing stress, and enabling them to remain productive during their move. Your Cartus account manager partners with your HR and mobility team to oversee all program management, provide consultative policy advice, and deliver industry-exclusive thought leadership to simplify your job, optimize your results, and enhance the employee experience
Cartus are incredibly supportive and reliable partners. Your expertise combined with your ability to align with your clients is a winning combination.

A local destination services provider (DSP) conducts a pre-arrival phone consultation and provides a face-to-face review of customized area information regarding housing, cost of living, schooling, local climate, and area-specific highlights. The DSP also coordinates an accompanied familiarization tour and area overview to include areas of interest and neighborhoods, school system/options, viewings of sample housing options, recreation, shopping, commuting, and transportation.
With the launch of our 24/7 online experience, Cartus brings an elevated user experience to its APAC destination services clients and their relocating employees, helping them to settle into their new location with less hassle and more efficiency. In partnership with RelocationOnline, Cartus’ new destination services digital environment offers high-tech service through a mobile-friendly digital platform connecting the Cartus Destination Services team to the relocating employee seamlessly.
The platform offers a single, organized solution to access essential host location information customized based on users’ requirements, such as home finding, schooling needs, and local market practices. It also safeguards all communications and personal information in a secure and compliant environment.
Facing an increasingly complex workplace, HR and mobility managers must take on new obstacles and navigate within ever-changing regulations that can be challenging to track. Through our end-to-end service delivery and automated, cloud-based solution, Cartus manages your organization’s distributed workforces and extended business travelers to identify permanent establishment, immigration, payroll, and other compliance risks.
This solution combines white-glove service and in-depth policy expertise and analysis with innovative technology for a holistic approach to managing relocation, tax, and compliance risks while offering:
Data collation and analytics
Solution design and implementation
Risk assessment and reporting
Program impact analysis and process refinement
From data collection to risk determination to program impact analysis, Cartus manages the wing-to-wing process so clients and their employees can focus on their core work and avoid a lengthy learning curve. This solution provides best-in-class technology and, when combined with Cartus’ service excellence, is unparalleled in the market.
With this new solution, Cartus supports clients with the following:
Identifying employee footprint and travel activity
Calculation of international and domestic withholding apportionment
City jurisdiction reporting to identify tax liability reduction opportunities
Managing permanent establishment
Schengen compliance
Pre-trip immigration and tax assessments
Immigration fulfillment
Comprehensive reporting and analysis
Automation of requests, reviews, approvals, and management of remote workers

After assessing different compliance automation solutions in the marketplace, we recognized that Topia Compass was far and away the best match for our clients. Together, we believe we can help clients seamlessly yet confidently mitigate the risks of business travel and a distributed workforce while maximizing the many benefits for sustained business growth, talent retention, and strategic agility.
Cartus Executive SVP, Global Talent Mobility, EMEA & APAC
Cartus’ approach to domestic household goods shipping management leverages our volume with the major van lines and leading independent carriers. These relationships provide a mutually beneficial relationship in which our movers agree to aggressive rates and terms.Cartus Household Goods services offer:
Competitive pricing
First-in-line service from the best drivers
Preferred scheduling during peak season times
Transit-time commitments to reduce expenses associated with interim housing costs
Our approach creates guaranteed capacity for Cartus move volume any time of year.
We introduced the MicroMove program for the U.S. Domestic market as an industry-exclusive solution. MicroMove offers:
Faster transit times
Fewer claims
Exact day delivery for customers with smaller shipments
Potential translation of cost savings to clients
Cartus Intercultural & Language Solutions is a leading global talent development business practice. We provide relocating and non-relocating individuals and groups with innovative, technology-enabled, flexible coaching and training programs to strengthen individual competencies and organizational capabilities to enhance global business performance. With over 30 years of industry experience, we bring local expertise with a global reach, a commitment to quality, and service excellence—achieving 99% learner satisfaction year over year.
Cartus Intercultural & Language Solutions combines consultative coaching and personalized performance support within a digital learning environment, providing your global talent with expert guidance to develop the skills and mindset required to be most effective in diverse, multicultural settings. Our clients have selected Cartus to ensure their global talent population is supported and prepared to engage and perform as they transition to working—and often living—in different cultural and linguistic environments and to create more inclusive and culturally intelligent organizations that compete more effectively in a global context.

Cartus Cross-Cultural Coaching is a great opportunity to learn more about the culture and respect the differences between the countries and way of living and doing business.
Health & Wellness Innovation Director | Tate & Lyle
Cartus’ worldwide household goods shipment program provides you and your assignees with a comprehensive, personal, one-stop source to control costs, significantly reduce administrative tasks, and eliminate many complications associated with international moves. Through our patented eProcurement tool (a global household goods traffic-lane pricing model) and expert move counseling, you and your assignees receive the technical knowledge and expertise to make a smooth transition to locations worldwide.
Our International Freight Forwarding service includes the following:
Employee counseling and advocacy
Ongoing communication and shipment monitoring
ISO-certified supplier selection and management
Replacement value insurance and claims administration
Audit and payment of carrier invoices
Cost and service performance reporting
Cartus’ dedicated procurement and compliance team continually sources and benchmarks fees. We procure services on a rotational basis with our suppliers to ensure all networks regularly compete in a formal bid process. We then leverage our volume to ensure our clients get the best price and quality equation. We also benchmark rates to ensure our services are appropriately priced across the globe. Suppliers are motivated to place their best employees on our account, preserving the leading service and most competitive rate requirements to earn access to Cartus’ volume.
For a holistic overview of the Cartus Supply Chain Management value proposition, please visit Supply Chain Management
BIOGEN | Associate Director of Global Mobility
Cartus’ transportation solutions are tailored to address both the short- and long-term vehicle requirements of your assignees.
Part of this offering includes services delivered by our supplier partner, ExpatRide, a provider of comprehensive transportation solutions specifically designed for relocating employees. ExpatRide supports our clients in 176 countries with services including, airport transfers, car rentals, vehicle leasing and financing, daily chauffeur services, bus and coach rentals, armored vehicles, and EVIP services.
Here’s a deeper look into the relocation services provided by ExpatRide:
Enhanced VIP support: ExpatRide provides elevated services including, chauffeur-driven and luxury vehicle hire, ensuring your EVIPs feel totally supported throughout the move.
Flexible and tailored options: Whether short- or long-term, ExpatRide’s services are adaptable to the duration of the assignment, providing convenience and seamless transitions throughout the relocation process.
Sustainable programs: ExpatRide’s EcoRide program focuses on delivering eco-conscious mobility solutions, which can be customized to align with your ESG goals and policies.
Increased security and safety: With services such as 24/7 support, armored vehicles, and chauffeur-driven transport, ExpatRide prioritizes the safety and security of your relocating employees, especially important when relocating in and out of high-risk or unfamiliar locations.
With ExpatRide as our transportation partner, Cartus ensures that your relocating employees receive unparalleled support, allowing them to settle in quickly, feel more in control, and focus on their new roles from day one.
The Cartus premier executive service offering is a fully customizable program for your VIPs supported by a dedicated team available 24/7. Cartus’ Premier Executive team is comprised of our most tenured and accomplished consultants. With an average of 20 years of relocation experience and focus on executive moves, this elite team manages every relocation consideration for your VIP while meticulously considering your culture and the executive’s one-of-a-kind needs and family situation. Because of their extensive experience solving complex relocation challenges, your executive’s consultant anticipates needs, proactively manages expectations, and has the autonomy to move things forward to keep your executive fully productive in their new role. This allows the consultant to review and determine the best course of action to ensure a smooth transition and the elimination of roadblocks.
Understanding the demands and busy schedule of your executive, the consultant works to alleviate administrative burdens by assisting with the completion of required documents and expense reports, working with the executive’s administrative assistant, as well as their spouse/partner, to manage critical elements of the move.
Behind the scenes, the executive consultant manages every level of detail and constantly communicates with internal teams and our supplier partners. They manage the flow of information through Cartus and significantly reduce multiple touchpoints for the executive.
The consultant is available 24/7/365 and, most importantly, at the convenience of your executive. This access is not limited to the consultant. Our internal support teams and supplier partners are also accessible 24/7/365, as everyone understands the urgency needed to support this level of move and the criticality of getting things done when the executive needs them completed.
Cartus’ Expense Management services reduce client administrative burdens without reducing client financial or operational control. Cartus provides comprehensive expense administration, including compliance audits, tax reporting, and management reporting. Multiple oversight checkpoints within Cartus’ expense management and reporting system provide accurate and clean data.
Providing timely and efficient expense management services is a significant differentiator for Cartus. We ensure that your employees are paid quickly and correctly in accordance with your program’s guidelines.
Cartus has developed a fully integrated global relocation accounting system to serve hundreds of clients, processing between $2-4 billion in annual disbursements. Our staff can audit receipts in many languages and currencies and support your specific policies and exception management procedures.
Not only do we provide timely, accurate service, but we also work to make the process easy for your transferring employees. Your employees can submit expense reports in hard copy or via their device of choice for speedy payment within two business days.
The team has done a great job learning our program and has quickly learned how we like to manage the program to ensure a best-in-class experience for our employees while looking to control costs. Thank you for all your efforts.
Cartus provides furniture rental from a number of different suppliers. Typical services include
Entire furnishing: bedding, towels, cutlery, pots, beds, sofas, dining tables etc.
Partial furnishing: Large items such as beds, sofas and dining tables
Delivery of furniture and timely removal of furniture in line with your employee’s needs
Our in-house consultants will coordinate the services with a furniture supplier. Our large volume which enables us to have favorable conditions with local furniture suppliers
Relocating employees receive professional counseling and management from their personal Cartus consultant and broker network agent to assist in the overall home-finding and settling-in process.
In cases where the carrier or van line is settling the claim, it is often handled by a claims department. The objective of claims personnel is to minimize the financial impact to the agent and van line, therefore creating what could be viewed as a conflict of interest and may ultimately impact an employee or assignee’s perception of the claims service.
Cartus insurance settlement firm provides claim settlement expertise, high-touch service and complete objectivity. The process is designed to be service sensitive and to minimize time and out-of-pocket expenses of the employee or assignee.
Cartus’ International Assignment Compensation Services is a complex and critical group of services supporting your international transferees. International assignment financial issues require accuracy and speed to ensure that allowances and taxes are correctly administered and understood.
Cartus coordinates all aspects of an assignee’s global compensation, including cost estimates, compensation balance sheets, allowances, payroll updates, shadow payroll, year-end total compensation reporting, and ongoing communication with HR and your tax provider.
This comprehensive support allows your transferees to understand the components of their international compensation and provides you with the correct information to administer payroll and year-end tax functions for transferees.
For eligible employees, we are excited to introduce Cartus Connect—powered by LiveEasy. Cartus Connect is a full-service, turnkey solution that combines a comprehensive move and home management service with Cartus in-house services and partners to create a high-end experience for U.S. domestic transferees and international transferees relocating to the U.S. For life. Learn more at Cartus Connect
For other employees, Cartus integrates your lump sum benefits directly into our system, configuring each policy and program type to permit accurate calculation of each allowance. Cartus monitors and authorizes the lump sums as employees become eligible for these benefits. We can either disburse the funds on behalf of the company, or the information can be sent to your payroll department via electronic interface for payment to your employee. We retain all data for reporting purposes.
By making the disbursement, Cartus ensures the availability of funds to your employees when cash flow becomes a challenge during the relocation process. Lump sum payments can be issued within 24 hours of eligibility. If the allowance is not eligible for gross-up, Cartus withholds estimated taxes for the disbursement to eliminate any negative impact on your employee’s paycheck when the wages are reported to payroll.
As part of pre-decision counseling, Cartus consultants explain how the relocation process would work and assist with agent selection Throughout the entire process, the consultant helps with home marketing to strategize on home price and creative ideas to market the property and maximize the potential equity in your home.
Pre-decision services also include:
Area Orientation Tour to familiarize you with your new community
Cost of Living Analysis to ensure that cost comparisons are appropriate for the job and housing type
Cost of Move Estimate based on employer-specific data for policy and move types
Counseling (Pre-transfer) to give your transferee all the relevant policy information and guidance they need
Destination Information on communities, schools, area amenities, and recent home sales through our transferee portal
Expense Management tracking and management reporting capabilities to accommodate electronic interfaces with your accounting and accounts payable systems
Mortgage Pre-qualification to offer access to fast, simple, high-quality, individualized mortgage assistance
Spouse/Partner Assistance for complete career counseling and labor market research for the relocating spouse, partner, or family
Pre-decision Appraisal/Broker’s Market Analysis to enable informed decisions about the proposed relocation
Occupied and Vacant Home programs provide peace of mind to your relocating employees that their homes are properly maintained while on assignment.
Services are available through our partnership with global providers and directly from Cartus offices in select locations. Components may include visas, work permits, and residence permits, as well as associated preparation of “legalized” vital statistics documents, passports, etc.

Check out a few of the innovative, in-house solutions we offer to help our clients and their relocating employees address some of the most pressing mobility challenges and opportunities they face today.
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