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Englishnization

English-only multinationals are a bad idea

July 30, 2012 by John Yunker

You can decree that the employees of your company speak only English. You can train everyone. You can test everyone. And you can get everyone to speak English in meetings, just as you mandated. But be careful what you wish …

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