Secondment is increasingly recognised by many employers in both public and private sector industries as valuable for staff development. As organisations adopt ever-flatter management structures, opportunities for promotion are limited. By placing employees in different work situations, secondment offers the chance of improving communications.
 
   

Followed by the global economic slow down, the Hong Kong economy is disturbed by the Asian Financial Crisis, industrial migration, and internal economic pressure from structural economic changes, which all eventually pressured the labor market.