A decade or so ago, most of the overseas personnel of foreign firms were of European ancestry. To get them to go overseas with their families, it was necessary to pay them two or three times the salary they would get in the United States. There was also the problem of finding a successor when their contracts expired.
相較於十多年前，外商公司海外工作人員大都是白人，要他們一家大小遠赴亞洲，必須用二到三倍高於美國當地的待遇為誘因，還得擔心任期到後繼任人選的問題。