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07/10/2026
The World Cup is the greatest global mobility experiment on the planet. Thousands of people, new cities, new environments, perform or go home.
There's a lesson in there for how we support relocating employees. Cigna's latest research backs it up.
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National teams don't just show up for a World Cup. They move in.
A base camp isn't a hotel booking. It's a training ground, a recovery setup, staff housing, meal logistics, and travel coordination for dozens of people, all built to keep a squad match-ready for weeks.
North Texas hosted two of them. Sweden made Frisco its home and trained at Toyota Stadium. Czechia set up in Mansfield.
Temporary housing. Training facilities. Local logistics. Staff accommodations. Visa coordination for coaches and medical staff arriving from across Europe.
Here's the thing: what a national team needs at a World Cup and what your relocating employee needs at a new assignment aren't that different. Both need a place to land, a support structure, and someone who already knows how it all fits together.
Because getting there is the easy part. Being ready is the work. That's the part most people don't see. It's also the part we handle.
07/03/2026
The video board at "Dallas Stadium" covers over 25,000 square feet and weighs 1.2 million pounds. That's about the weight of 18 fully loaded shipping containers hanging above the field.
Here's the part that gets us though: the grass isn't even permanent. For the World Cup, AT&T Stadium swapped its artificial turf for real grass, grown 800 miles away in Colorado and shipped to Arlington, roots and all, in refrigerated trucks.
A whole playing surface, relocated across state lines, just to be ready for game day.
That's kind of our whole thing. At CRI, we move people, not turf, but the principle holds: getting someone somewhere new and ready to perform takes planning most people never see.
Big events. Big moves. Every detail handled.
06/30/2026
Qatar didn't renovate a city for the 2022 World Cup. They built one.
Eight stadiums from the ground up. A brand new metro system. An entire city — Lusail — that was still desert in 2010. Stadium 974 was constructed from 974 shipping containers and engineered to be fully dismantled and shipped to another country the moment the tournament ended. Even the stadium itself was a relocation.
Behind every number, professionals who relocated — many with families — for years. New immigration frameworks. Housing that didn't exist before they arrived. A country that had to build the workforce infrastructure before it could build anything else.
From desert to kickoff in 12 years.
06/22/2026
Not all World Cup moves look the same. Here are the three types that happen behind every tournament.
The first is the long-term project relocation. Multi-year assignments supporting planning, design, construction, and build-out. Senior project managers, digital infrastructure leaders, sustainability architects who arrive years before a single match is played.
The second is the short-term rotational assignment. Specialists who rotate in and out during critical phases. Security system testing. Broadcast technology implementation. Event operations rehearsals. In Dallas for six weeks, Houston for three, gone before the tournament ends.
The third is the high-volume temporary workforce. Hospitality teams. Transportation coordinators. Fan experience staff. Credentialing specialists. People who need housing, orientation, and logistical support for a defined window of time.
Each type requires a different mobility approach. All three require the same thing: a program built for flexibility, compliance, and speed.
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