Sourced and Secured: How We Grow our Global Corporate Housing Portfolio

The primary requirement of any business with alternative accommodations needs is to have assurance of supply  – commonly referred to in this industry as inventory or stock  - when and where needed and for as many people moving as required – from 5 to 150.  The need may be for 7 days or for multiple months, and travel planners and mobility managers want to know what their options are beyond expensive hotel stays.

Dwellworks Living meets these core solutions needs and more – with accommodations options in every major business destination worldwide and a tri-regional team to assist employees with their housing needs and support services, whether the stay is for a week, a month, or longer.

Solutions that Are More Than Supply Chain

Ensuring corporate housing supply means having multiple channels for sourcing, selecting, and managing accommodations options for client needs. As a solutions partner for global corporate mobility and business travel accommodation needs, Dwellworks Living draws on a portfolio that includes:

• Inventory we lease in key cities where there is recurring and continuous client need
• ‘Turnkey’ inventory exclusive to individual clients requiring guaranteed availability and immediate confirmation for their travelers
• ‘Bespoke’ solutions that we source for unique client needs – typically to support very specific requirements for project needs, senior staff, and VIPs
• The industry’s most robust collection of high-performing, closely managed, and legally compliant property partners who enable us to deliver competitively priced, well-matched options for every client request for housing, at any price point, for any length of extended stay, virtually anywhere in the world

A Professionally Vetted and Managed Portfolio-Tailored for Business Travel Needs

Dwellworks Living has an expert, dedicated global team of temporary living supply chain professionals, with 100+ years of industry experience among them, to identify and certify professionally managed housing solutions both in the world’s busiest global hubs as well as in challenging and remote locations and start-up markets. In the past 24 months, our team has grown our supplier capacity by 26%. These partners expanded a base that includes over 3,500 supplier partners worldwide with access to 80,000 apartments and homes.

Our global Supply Chain team’s vetting process is designed to ensure that every partner we work with meets our criteria and standards and specifically that they can support our clients’ full duty of care requirements – as reliable, professionally managed businesses who are directly engaged in the employee’s customer service experience.

The vetting starts with regulatory compliance and licensing and typically involves a review of the property manager’s business history, financial stability, insurance coverage, service quality, and adherence to industry standards and practices. Dwellworks Living may also conduct interviews with the management team to validate their commitment to the customer experience , flexibility, and responsiveness. Our team’s portfolio management protocols also include visits to individual facilities and a review of the property’s policies and procedures for ensuring high-quality customer care.

Corporate accommodations bookings can be subject to change when factoring in client needs, guest travel plans, extensions, or cancellations. Our portfolio management takes the reality of business-to-business service needs into account, and we secure multiple housing options to make sure there are always choices available across a range of price points.

The supplier selection and vetting process is an important proof point of Dwellworks Living's capability to provide high-quality and reliable solutions and services to our clients at a global scale. By working with trusted and vetted local property experts everywhere in the world, Dwellworks Living ensures that our clients have a streamlined but highly credible selection and booking process as well as a reliable in-property experience for their relocating professionals and travelers. 

The Globally Local Difference

Being a solutions partner to our clients means supporting the accommodation needs no matter the location or how challenging the circumstance is.

Dwellworks Living has sourced housing for clients evacuating on a few days’ notice from Russia and Ukraine to Poland, Germany, Dubai and across Western Europe. We’ve supported families who moved from China to Singapore by the hundreds during the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ve set up housing for bank trainees in the Hong Kong - Guangdong Greater Bay Area, sourced housing for interns in London, New York, and Silicon Valley, and converted unfurnished apartments to ideal extended-stay housing for executives and their families with highly-specific requirements. Our solutions are so complete and offer such attractive alternatives and price points versus hotels for extended stays, that an executive assistant at one London bank was moved to comment, “Where have you been all my life?”

Dwellworks Living makes this happen through our portfolio development team and by partnering globally with our parent company, Dwellworks Destination Services, the industry’s most recognized provider of area orientation, home-finding, cultural familiarization, and settling in services, delivered by 1,200 on-the-ground experts who live the assignee/traveler experience every day. These professionals know rental markets, leasing terms, landlords, and providers, and are experts at negotiations in the local language.  This coverage in key global markets gives us an added edge in sourcing solutions and ensuring that unique client requests can be supported.

Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility Across our Portfolio

Most of our financial services clients are publicly held companies with commitments to social responsibility and sustainability. Additionally, as noted by zerotracker.net, over 900 companies in the Forbes 2000 have set net-zero targets. As global employers determine their path towards carbon neutrality, they also require alignment among their suppliers. Dwellworks has taken action on ESG initiatives since 2021.

We survey our corporate housing partners annually to collect ESG data and ensure the best accommodations for our clients, asking questions about everything from diverse representation in their ownership and staff to itemizing the environmentally-friendly initiatives they have put in place for their properties. 30% of our accommodations solution partners identify as woman-owned and 97% confirmed they are actively on the sustainability journey in terms of their environmental actions and goals. In 2024, we’re adding sustainability criteria to our accommodations profiles and will make that information available when presenting options. We’re also committed to partnering with  the temporary living industry’s primary trade association – the Corporate Housing Providers Association - to build and share an agnostic, science-based calculator for measuring carbon emissions, available to all portfolio partners at no cost.  

We are proud of our social responsibility investments that include associate-led volunteer efforts in food banks, local schools, and shelters, and we are vocal and visible supporters of diversity and inclusion within our associate team and across our supply chains. We are proud co-founders and participants in Upward Mobility, committed to expanding the global mobility talent pipeline by hiring interns and recent college graduates from underrepresented populations.

For more information on our ESG Initiatives and the sustainable development of our supply chain, read through our actions and performance over the last year in our 2023 ESG Impact Report below.

Download our 2023 ESG Impact Report

The Advantages of Security + Supply + Service

Clients with complex business travel and workforce mobility needs expect access to a fully vetted, continuously expanding global portfolio of property choices, reflecting the world’s most trusted furnished housing providers who offer exceptional options as well as award-winning, 24/7 guest support and on-the-ground in-market local expertise. They also want access to properties for various lengths of stay. All Dwellworks Living portfolio options can accommodate client requests from 7+ days onward.  Our portfolio includes choice, comfort and well-appointed furnishings, without the risk and restrictions associated with ‘short-term rentals’ designed for self-managed vacation bookings.

With Dwellworks Living, clients get the benefit of a single, purpose-built application to browse, customize, request, confirm, and manage furnished apartment stays globally. We’ve recently upgraded this interface – known as Top Options – for clients’ ease of use and as part of our continuous approach to innovation. Using your price, location, and amenities specifications, we generate detailed, well-matched recommendations from the 80,000 curated properties in our portfolio.  Presented to you in desktop, tablet, or mobile format –you can review your choices, click your preference, and we’ll confirm and complete the booking.  With a deep portfolio of solutions and the industry’s most responsive sourcing technology, Top Options allows buyers to select choices quickly and confidently, knowing the options meet the needs of their business and their business travelers.

Our housing solutions are not simply signing up suppliers to a platform and letting our clients and guests self-manage their service. Being an end-to-end global solutions partner means relentless commitment to the customer experience, starting with sourcing accommodations that match client and guest requirements and then delivering not only customer-centered care, but also global account management, cost reporting, consolidated, multi-currency billing, and analytics-led improvements in process and recommendations for client policy and practice.

Our property solutions are just the beginning. To learn more about how we can manage your global alternative accommodations as a seamless partner in your mobility and travel strategy, contact us here. To see how our services apply specifically to your company, click on the buttons below that apply to your industry.

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Want to Learn More From Industry Experts?

Dwellworks Living is hosting the second webinar in our series "The Essentials of Corporate Housing" soon! Register today for our webinar "Housing Partner Sourcing, Selection, and Service" on July 16th at 11 AM US EST to learn from our staff and fellow industry experts on how corporate housing accommodations are selected.

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Dwellworks Living: Global Solutions for Corporate Accommodations  

Dwellworks Living is committed to providing our clients and their employees with the best possible corporate housing and serviced accommodations experience. With a global network of property partners, a tri-regional team of customer experience and supply chain professionals, and a wide range of services for global mobility and travel customers, Dwellworks Living can provide the perfect corporate housing solution for any need or budget. 

Dwellworks Living is the global corporate housing solution of Dwellworks, an award-winning, business-to-business provider of global mobility and business travel services. As a global leader in corporate housing and serviced accommodations solutions, Dwellworks Living is uniquely positioned to meet the temporary living needs of businesses and their employees who are relocating or traveling on short-, medium- or extended-stays. With 60,000 high-quality professionally managed properties in over 125 countries worldwide, Dwellworks Living is the preferred housing solutions partner of many Fortune 1000 and leading relocation management companies. 

Dwellworks Living's corporate housing and serviced accommodations solutions are designed to help businesses attract and retain top talent, support employee productivity, and ensure a smooth and successful relocation or business travel experience. In addition to our core global accommodations management services, Dwellworks Living, through our worldwide network of local experts, is uniquely capable of offering our clients expanded and related services, such as area orientations, group move assistance, destination services and intercultural training. 

Whether you have corporate housing needs for an individual employee or a large team, Dwellworks Living can provide the serviced accommodations solutions you need anywhere in the world to ensure a safe and successful stay. Please contact us to learn more or visit our Properties page to begin your search for global corporate housing accommodations.