After 14 years, though, California was hard to leave. We belonged to a wonderful church and had terrific health care and a host of friends that seemed like family. I loved it like no other place I had ever lived and didn't see how I could ever love another area as much. But I was going to have to try. Intellectually, I knew I wasn't alone.
Corporations move thousands of employees and their families every year.
Unlike some transferees, my husband had a good relocation plan that spelled out all the details. It even offered spouse assistance to help me secure a job in Kansas City. I was clueless about most of what lay ahead, and it's not surprising. Most corporations don't have the foggiest idea of what they're putting employees and their families through when they ask them to uproot and move, say relocation experts. But what some companies have noticed is that many relocated employees leave within three years of a move.