BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//PYVOBJECT//NONSGML Version 1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Shanghai BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20000101T000000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=1 TZNAME:CST TZOFFSETFROM:+0800 TZOFFSETTO:+0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260831T210328Z - 22119@iZuf69e0i0z4ibdboqb33jZ DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20260907T190000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20260907T210000 CREATED:20260831T210328Z DESCRIPTION:O ne Workplace\, One Language: Should International Companies Require Englis h?\nWhat language should an international company actually speak? Shou ld a global business require everyone to communicate in English\, even whe n most employees are based in China\, France or Japan? Should the local la nguage take priority instead? And who gets to make that decision — headq uarters\, local management\, or the people actually doing the work? “One workplace\, one language” sounds wonderfully efficient until you consid er what it means in practice. A common language can bring teams together a nd make international collaboration easier\, but it can also affect who sp eaks confidently in meetings\, whose ideas get heard\, who gets promoted — and even who gets hired in the first place. And now AI is changing the question completely. When emails\, documents and conversations can increa singly be translated instantly and remarkably well\, does everyone in an i nternational company still need to share a language at all? Could abandoni ng strict language requirements give companies access to a much larger poo l of talented people — or would something important be lost when colleag ues no longer communicate directly? We'll explore how international compan ies actually handle multilingual workplaces\, the surprising problems diff erent policies can create\, and what language does to power\, inclusion\, efficiency\, company culture and opportunity. Whether you work for an inte rnational company or have never set foot in one\, this is a timely discuss ion about something much bigger than vocabulary: in a global workplace\, w ho should have to adapt to whom? 一家跨国公司究竟该说哪种语 言？哪怕大多数员工都身处中国、法国或日本，全球化 企业就真的有必要要求每个人都必须用英文沟通吗？还 是说应该当地语言优先？这种决定到底该由谁说了算— —总部、本地管理层，还是真正干活的打工人？“一个 职场，一种语言”听起来效率极高，可一旦落实到具体 业务中，情况就没那么简单了。统一的官方语言确实能 把团队拉进同一个频道，让跨国协作更顺畅，但它同时 也悄悄影响着谁能在开会时自信发声、谁的想法能被听 见、谁能拿下升职加薪——甚至从一开始就决定了谁能 被录用。 况且现在 AI [...] DTSTAMP:20260831T210328Z LOCATION:China\,\, Shanghai SUMMARY:One Workplace\, One Language: Should International Companies Requir e English? END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR