This year, Mercer’s 19th annual Quality of Living Survey ranked infrastructure as a separate factor in determining its rankings for the world’s cities. Likewise, cities and urban planners are paying much closer attention to how their city stacks up against the competition. Easy access to transportation, reliable electricity, and drinkable water are all important considerations when determining, for example, hardship allowances based on differences between a given assignee’s home and host locations. Infrastructure plays an important role when multinationals decide where to establish locations abroad and send expatriate workers.
What do organizations look at when analyzing the quality of living for their expatriate workforce in the world’s cities? Risk factors such as economic and political stability play a large role for obvious reasons, but in today’s era of urban concentration, another factor has emerged: city infrastructure.
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