My Global Scale IT employer has trouble finding qualified staff. They opened support and development shops in India, then found that pool had dried up, so they started new shops in places such a Saguenay Qubec. A lot of the staff is immigrant. When the Saguenay team members showed up for a couple of weeks orientation I spoke French with them, mentioning that it they kept their ears open they could hear Chinese dialects, South Asian, Russian, middle eastern, ... being spoken in the office, so why not French. The more the merrier.

Quite the change from the 1970s. Only one person in my first IT office didn't look Northern European and sound like a Central or Western Canadian anglophone. The shop steward spoke to me once, mocking the Ethnic Chinese from Malaysia guys accent and implying that I must have trouble understanding him. I just looked the union guy straight in the eye and said that I didn't have any trouble understanding Geok's speech.