Business Practice Analysis: Employee Collaboration When Nimble Storage adopts a more geocentric focus, they will see gains regarding their employee collaboration. One potential gain would be higher retention and higher employee satisfaction rate with employers. Plakhotnik et al. (2015) conducted a study on employees' experience with different cultural backgrounds within a geocentric organization. They study found that participants experienced personal and professional growth through professional development and cultural awareness. They study also found that the employees felt valued when they were able to show their creativity and that they were able to contribute to their organization (Plakhotnik et al., 2015). Not only would they see higher retention and increase satisfaction with employees from different cultures, but they would see an increase in local employees as well. Providing the employees with the opportunity to work with a diverse work group will increase their cultural competency, which will in turn, make them a more valuable employee