Message for Analysis: Adapting to Cultural Differences

[LO-5] You are working in a culturally diverse organization in Dubai. Recently, you received new, transferred employees from Jordan, Egypt, and Lebanon.

Your boss wants to send an email to all recently transferred employees in your department. The employees understand English, but your boss asks you to review his message for clarity. What changes would you suggest to your boss and why? Would you consider this message to be audience centered? Why or why not? (Hint: Do some quick research on Dubai to identify the style of English that people from Jordan, Egypt, and Lebanon are likely to speak.) The email is as follows:

I wanted to welcome you ASAP to our little family here in Dubai.

It is high time we shook hands in person and not just across countries. I am pleased about getting to know you all, and I will do my level best to see you well in Dubai.