While organizational support is expected for the families of organization-assigned expatriates that are accompanied internationally, for short-term assignees’ families that do not relocate, the need for such organizational support is not explored. Festing and Perkins (2008, pp. 154–155)categorize short-term assignees as generally less expensive for the organization and less well compensated. They qualify this in differentiating between assignments of less than six months and those assigned for between six months and one year who generally receive rewards in line with the long-term expatriate assignments. Overall the cost efficiency and lack of complexity associated with short-term international assignments when compared to long term expatriate assignments is accepted in the conceptualization of short-term international assignments in international human resource management literature.