I'm a native English speaker. When I started at my company it was English-only (at least as far as I saw). Over the past several years we've been doing more wor

I'm a native English speaker. When I started at my company it was English-only (at least as far as I saw). Over the past several years we've been doing more work with Europe and around the globe. Even more recently, people in Europe have been given leadership position on various projects that impact the US. It could be my own English-bias talking, but I think things would be going more smoothly if everything was done in a single language, English being the logical choice. Everyone working on the projects and at the company speaks English (as a first or second language), and I have occasionally received emails in French. Some of these are automated system messages, and whoever set them up wasn't thinking about the global audience. A vast majority of employees don't speak French, so most people lose the context when this happens. That's a problem. Even in our offices in India, I'm told that they use English in the office, because that's the only common language they all share, since there are so many languages and dialects in India; there isn't one local languages they can count on. English does seem to be the lingua franca for the world, especially in technology, at this point. This seems to be the case online, as I've read from various people over the years, and I also see it when I travel. One person will speak German, another Korean, and they both switch to English so they can speak to each other to ask directions or whatever it may be.