Q2 Risk of Hiring Expats instead of Local Human Resources 10 Points Despite the inherent cost and cultural advantages that often exists for hiring locally (i.e. hiring nationals in the foreign country you will enter your business in), a local labor market many simply not have enough qualified workers. For example, if Microsoft Corporation has a computer programming operation in Monterrey, Mexico, it may not be able to find enough qualified local computer programmers to staff the operation adequately. These situations will warrant sending an expat to the host country to manage or to do the work there. Identify and explain 2 risks of sending expats to a host country. Hint: Think along the lines of Expat themselves Family members that relocate with the Expat The host country's (the country Expat is going to) employees