The freedom to be able to run your organisation the way you as manager and your shareholders see fit. As a result it should be no business of the Government who you employ, as long as they are not a menace to Fiji society. However hiring expats in a small business environment like ours raises a number of issues which impact directly on the ultimate judge of our performance, our bottom line. After 15 years of developing a business organisation in the South Pacific and having a number of expats work with me both as colleagues and as clients, I have come to see the good, the bad and the very ugly. Let's start with the Good.
Every successful society takes advantages of the best resources available to it.
The very reason for the vitality and dynamism of the USA, is the fact that it has been able to suck the world dry of its best talent. We need to import talent there is no question about it and yet we go to great efforts to seal ourselves off from the rest of the world. Little wonder we are stagnating in our own little pond. Now for the Bad. Time and time again companies enter the expat trap.