Dear FMC's staff members,
On the occasion of the 2021 Lunar New Year, the Board of Directors wishes you and your family always be healthy, peaceful, and succeed.
In this message, the Board of Directors wants to share with you about the changes in the world and in Vietnam in 2020, and the expectations of the Board of Directors in 2021.
As you know, 2020 is a year with many big changes that upset and change the way of thinking and daily living habits of people around the world.
The COVID-19 pandemic is thought to arise at the end of 2019, but has quickly spread around the world since the beginning of 2020, and is still raging everywhere, without any sign of ending soon.
From the beginning of 2020, Vietnam as well as many other countries in the world have started the measures such as "social distance", "isolation", "blockade", "lockdown", etc., with aim to prevent pandemic from spreading in the society. Since then, the activities of people all over the world have been disturbed almost entirely.
Vietnam is widely praised by the world as a country with a tough and effective pandemic control policy, and as a result, the number of people infected by and died of the pandemic is not as high as in most other countries.
But in order to achieve that result, the Government of Vietnam had to implement a policy of almost "isolated nation", limiting the entry of experts, investors, and tourists.
On the other hand, Vietnam had to immediately block up the places known as "outbreaks" in the country, limiting both economic activities of business establishments, and daily activities of people in society.Many factories and production facilities had to stop operation because of interruption of material supply or stagnation of production output. Students have to stay home to study online because schools are closed. Many tourist establishments, shops, etc., have to close down because the decrease in customers and the loss of benefit.
Under such difficult circumstances, many infrastructure development projects with ODA fund are delayed because it is not easy for international experts to come to Vietnam to work. Foreign direct investment has drastically decreased, making many new construction projects impossible to deploy. Some companies have had to lay off many employees, or shut down because they could not withstand lasting losses.
As other construction consultant companies, our company was also badly affected by the pandemic. The company's revenue dropped significantly because many construction projects were delayed.
Entering the year of 2021, we should not be too optimistic to predict that the pandemic will pass quickly, and all economic and social activities will soon recover. And we should also not passively sit still, just wait for the pandemic to pass, and do nothing. It is better for us to wisely manipulate this current difficult condition in a positive way. Instead of doing nothing, we should wisely utilize this "isolated time" to improve the following 3 factors:
(1) FAMILY LOVE;
(2) CAREER ADVANCEMENT; and
(3) COMPANY'S SOLIDARITY.
The Board of Directors hopes that you will try your best to SPEND MORE TIME FOR YOUR FAMILY, and try to ENHANCE your PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE and your FOREIGN LANGUAGE ABILITY, BE READY TO CARRY OUT NEW COMMING JOBS.
But above all, the Board of Directors hopes that you will be POSITIVELY COOPERATE WITH THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS in expanding our company's scope of business, accessing new sources of jobs.
Your ceaseless efforts to improve your professional knowledge and foreign language ability, together with the spirit of teamwork in the company will be the strength to help our company continue to grow, overcome current difficult circumstances, continue to be a sustainable source of livelihood for your family.
In representative of the Board of Directors
Minami Yasuhira
General Director