The Outpost Global Network

In over 60 locations, Outpost teams provide personal contact, friendly advice and welcoming services, as well as producing first hand reports and information. Services offered by individual Outposts vary, depending on their size and location, but they all offer unique practical support to help employees, their partners and families with the challenges of global mobility, including local employment and study opportunities.  Many have books and videos available for loan. Contact the Outpost location nearest to you, or in your intended location, for more information:
www.globaloutpostservices.com .

Global Outpost Services
The hub of Shell's global expatriate family network, Global Outpost Services (GOS), is based in The Hague.  They provide support to the Outpost global network and they publish the expatriate family magazine Destinations and Outpost Business Briefs (see below).  They provide advice, guidance and training  to help individual Outposts deliver localised services, such as Careers and Development Services.  Outpost representatives worldwide can access the network's documents and discussion forums via the GOS website:
www.globaloutpostservices.com .

Destinations Magazine
The expatriate family magazine, published quarterly by Global Outpost Services, reports on all aspects of expatriate life in Shell locations around the world.  Hard copies are distributed to all Outpost network centres around the globe, for onward distribution to the local Shell populations.  You can also read it online:
www.outpostthehague.com.

Permits Foundation
Permits Foundation is an international non-profit corporate initiative to promote access of accompanying spouses and partners of international staff to employment through an improvement of work permit regulations.  Permits' sponsors include Shell, Unilever, Schlumberger and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office:
www.permitsfoundation.com.

Expatriate Archive Centre
"Connecting communities: Past, Present, and Future."
The Archive Centre is located near to the Shell Central Office in The Hague.  They collect and make available primary source material from expatriate families of all nationalities and ethnic origins, documenting the social history of expatriates in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.  By giving them your stories, memories and memorabilia, you will be adding your family history to an Archive Centre collection which dates from 1928, and which includes narrative sources from over 64 countries.  In addition, they have an extensive collection of photos, books, CD/DVDs, articles and newsletters from around the world.  Ongoing projects include a book about the sources in the Centre, and an oral history study.
www.expatriatearchivecentre.com.

Outpost Business Briefs
(Also accessible via SWW - the Shell Intranet network). The Business Briefs have been especially developed for Shell Business Travellers to get an accurate and essential first glimpse of business destinations. Indispensable pocket-size tri-folds contain language tips, useful numbers, must see, do and eat and health info in an easily printable format.
www.globaloutpostservices.com/