Foreign workers should learn the local language, especially if they've moved here, you're not doing them any favour by making them speak English for 8 to 10 hou

Foreign workers should learn the local language, especially if they've moved here, you're not doing them any favour by making them speak English for 8 to 10 hours a day. Work is a big part of integration and social life. This 50% split is pretty extreme, I don't know how that happened, you'd have to be in a field really lacking local talent or purposefully prioritize foreign workers over local ones. At every company I've worked at (all over Europe) we had 10 to 30% of workers from other countries and everybody naturally defaulted to the local language. It's hard, and often you have to switch to accommodate them, but it's always temporary. I work with an Indian guy, we both started around the same time a few years back, and back then I had to switch to English often, he'd stumble over his words and take a lot of time to express ideas, now I just had a zoom meeting with him: completely fluent in the local language, barely an accent. 1-2 years is not a long time (and you don't need that long to learn with full immersion for 8 hours a day), part of having employees is investing in them. The way I see it, it's not just for your own company's sake, it's your company's civic duty as it will allow them to continue working in this country and make it easier for their next employer. If your company has a training budget I'd set-up one on one language training with private tutors once a week. That's standard at my company (and subsidized by the state). Your documentation should be in the local language as well. Your hiring practice should prioritize people who speak the language (wherever they come from) at a minimum level and keep those who don't at a reasonable percentage. Unless it's a full-remote international company and workers don't intend to move to your country.