Corporate Relocation Survey 2025

According to survey respondents, more workers accepted a relocation in 2024.

• 42% of companies did not have any employees decline to move, an improvement from 36% in 2023.

That means 58% of companies reported that an employee declined the opportunity to relocate in 2024. The top three reasons an employee declined to move in 2024 were:

• Family issues/ties (35%)
• Concerns about housing/mortgage at the new location (25%)
• Concerns about selling or leaving the origin home (19%)

Family ties remained as a top reason employees declined to move for work. It increased by one point over 2023. Family obligations, including caregiving for multiple generations, may be behind workers’ apprehension to uproot and leave.

Concerns about housing and mortgages were a primary theme among survey respondents in 2024. If an employee last moved between 2020-2021, their current 30-year fixed interest rate

would have been around 3%. A move in 2024 would have raised that rate to roughly 7%. Homes were also staying on the market longer than in previous years.

Declining relocation due to location safety concerns including war, crime, and political unrest had the biggest change year over year. In 2023, 35% of employees cited this as a concern. In 2024, that dropped to just 4%.