Oil companies have booked motels within two hours' drive for a year in advance; last summer, relocated workers converted the lawn of a town park into a tent city.
At the commencement of the study, the Medical Association of Mozambique (Associação Médica de Moçambique) had begun negotiating a package of salary improvements and benefits for relocated workers with the government of Mozambique.
The problem is not only finding a rental that is affordable, said Jody O'Donnell, the president of Relocation Solutions, a Northport company that helps employers relocate workers, but also finding one that meets expectations.
The attacks in both Pakistan and Afghanistan influenced the decision to relocate workers.
An alternative approach to the problem, also widely practiced, is to retrain and relocate workers.
Relocating workers, while expensive, makes sense as record revenues are flowing in from places other than Wall Street.
Declaring such a surplus starts a series of procedures that can allow the company to lay off workers or relocate workers beyond traditional limits for transfers.
The central government will allocate 100bn yuan£10bnbn) over two years to relocate workers laid off as a result of China's efforts to curb overcapacity, officials said last week.
"This will help employers set a salary range when relocating workers, since the cost of labor varies so much by region," she said.
Barra tried to emphasize to Trump that the company has been working to relocate workers at Lordstown to other GM factories across the country.
Richard Gnodde, chief executive of Goldman Sachs International, said on Tuesday the decision to relocate workers was part of the bank's contingency plan for the UK leaving the EU.
