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title: "Expatriates going abroad or coming home: where to accommodate your collaborators in Paris for a couple of weeks or a few months?"
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# Expatriates going abroad or coming home: where to accommodate your collaborators in Paris for a couple of weeks or a few months?

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 | Mar 6, 2019 9:40:00 AM | Read : 4 min

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Paris remains tourists’ favorite destination but it has also been attracting for quite some time a different profile of visitors who settle down for a couple of weeks or a few months, on their own or with their entire family: [**foreign expatriates** who must spend two weeks every month as part of their professional routine or who are sent for a mission of a year or more](https://blog.parisattitude.com/en/paris-great-place-business), but also **French executives who are coming back from an assignment **on the opposite side of the world and need to get their local mojo back -and a place to live- in the capital.

**Human Resources departments are usually in charge of finding adequate housing solutions for this growing population of globetrotters**.

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What are the best options in each case?

## For short-term stays: hotels.

If **you must send your collaborator in Paris for a few days or a few weeks, hotel can be an appropriate solution**. The global hotel capacity in Paris is quite large as it needs to answer **the growing demand from tourists and professional tourists** (trade shows, seminars, etc.). Most hotels offer **negotiated prices** for companies. You should easily find one near your Parisian offices.

![Expatriation : Stay in a hotel is a good solution when your collaborators are coming for short terme ](https://blog.parisattitude.com/hs-fs/hubfs/featured-img/hotel-paris.jpg?width=1280&name=hotel-paris.jpg)

It’s a **piecemeal solution** which **remains quite expensive** if you want a comfortable room and qualitative accommodations and services.

Moreover, hotels as charming as they can be, **remain pretty impersonal**. Some will enjoy the morning buffet and to have dinner outside but it can end up **being frustrating to always eat outside and not to be able to cook for yourself for instance** particularly for the executives who spend a lot of time on the road and abroad.

Most of the time employees must pay for their hotel room upfront and get it reimbursed afterwards with an expense claim.

## For mid-term stays: furnished apartment.

If your collaborator needs to go to Paris for a month or two, you should **rather consider renting a temporary home from an individual**. To find that type of goods might seem complicated at first but in fact **there are specialized agencies, very qualified and that will be the interface between your company and owners who wish to rent their apartment**. Those agencies will **adapt to your expectations** but will also advise you in terms of location, budget, proposed services, etc. in complete transparency and with **the guarantee not to have any bad surprise.**

Depending on the services, someone from the agency will come and **welcome personally your collaborator**. Agencies usually have a service dedicated to emergency situation (water leak, loss of key, etc.) and even sometimes **a concierge service** to make him/her stay as pleasant as possible.

![Furnished apartment is a comfort solution for collaborators who are staying mid-term ](https://blog.parisattitude.com/hs-fs/hubfs/featured-img/appartement-paris.png?width=1280&name=appartement-paris.png)

Even if your stay lasts less than a month, your collaborators will appreciate **the atmosphere of a home sweet home that only an apartment can feel like**. They will be able to go out for dinner or to choose take-out or delivery or even to cook themselves. The other services are **the same as in a hotel**: cleaning, cable TV, Wi-Fi, sets of towels, etc.

If many of your collaborators **come to Paris on a regular basis**, you might even consider renting the same apartment for a longer period of time and **optimize its occupation**. It will also be more pleasant for an employee to come back to a place that will then become familiar. And you will also be able **to use it for shorter stays. **

**Finally HR department will also be able to pay the agency directly **every month**, **which makes their collaborators’ life easier as they won’t have to advance any expenses.

## For long-term stays: temporary housing.

If you must send **a collaborator in Paris with his/her family for a mission of several months**, you definitely need **to look for a temporary housing**. Here again, it’s much simpler to delegate the research of an apartment to a specialized agency **that will dialogue with the HR department but also directly with the family to understand their needs and wishes** ([school](https://blog.parisattitude.com/en/best-ten-middle-school-high-schools-paris-france), daycare, shopping area, modern or old apartment, etc.), **their priorities** ([quiet or lively neighborhood](https://blog.parisattitude.com/en/what-parisian-neighborhood-live-in), close to the office, etc.) to make **targeted proposals.**

[Leaving for a foreign country can be a difficult situation to handle especially if you are moving with spouse and kids](https://blog.parisattitude.com/en/accommodation-shouldnt-worry-you-planning-expatriation-paris). By offering that type of service to your employee (usually in a global expatiate contract deal), **you will take away a huge part of their stress.**

**![Choose the temporary housing for collaborators who stay several years](https://blog.parisattitude.com/hs-fs/hubfs/featured-img/LOGEMENT-PARIS.jpeg?width=1280&name=LOGEMENT-PARIS.jpeg)**

Those apartments are furnished and usually decorated with taste. The great advantage is that your collaborators will be able to settle in right away **and won’t have to buy furniture, dishes, TV screen, fridge, etc**. - and won’t have to try to sell them back when they leave. Leases, depending on services, can also be proposed with **all kind of options (electricity, internet, cable, etc. included)**.

Once settled, your collaborator **will usually pay the rent him/herself** but HR will already have handled all the preparation and most of the administrative hassle. It’s very nice when you move in a foreign country and you must really get it together and be efficient in your new professional mission.

If a temporary housing through a specialized agency is an ideal solution for expatriates, **it can also be a good solution when it’s time for expatriates to go back home**. After a long stay overseas, going back to France can also feel like a challenge and again dealing with housing is **essential to spare the family from extra stress on top of the stroke of blues** that might probably wear them out a bit at some point when they arrive. To rent a temporary home will allow them to settle in quickly, to go back to a life as normal as possible and to take time to look for a more definite place in their own terms without any pressure -for a smooth transition.

This type of service can be also negotiated in a global expatriate contract that you will carefully discuss as exhaustively as possible with the candidate for the expat assignment. Indeed it represents **an investment in terms of time and budget** but by dealing with these issues with your collaborator, **you will optimize his/her performances in your company: a “win-win” dynamic!**

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