The modern American workplace has become culturally diverse as diverse immigrant communities have grown in size. According to the U.S. Department of Immigration, 148,426 immigrants obtained residency in New York in 2011. Due to increasing diversity in the workplace, companies face a variety of cultural awareness and multiple language issues. These are very pressing issues in New York City, the melting pot of cultures from around the world. Every workplace in New York City has at least one employee who is non-American or bilingual. By exploring the multinational workplace, composed of immigrants from a variety of countries, I was able to distinguish three distinct themes. The first is immigrants' awareness of having an accent. The second is mixing two languages ​​in speech. The third is the issue of building an effective multicultural team. Full-time employed adults spend at least 40% of their time at work, and for many adults this represents 100% of their “public” life. The workplace has become a place of social interaction. Vicky Schultz described the importance of the workplace for individual growth in her work The Sanitized Workplace as follows: For most people, working is not just a way to make a living. It's a way... to make friends and form communities... and to get to know yourself and others in a profound way. … [The workplace] is also a source of citizenship, community and self-understanding. From this perspective, for immigrants, learning the language of the host country is a tool for developing a network of useful social contacts. Cristina Rodriguez states that in addition to its role in developing social bonds, language use helps preserve a multilingual environment...... of paper ......ogy.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/LevAriKeysar . pdf6. Rodriguez, Cristina. “Linguistic diversity in the workplace.” www.law.northwestern.edu. Northwestern University School of Law, 2006. Web. May 6, 2012. http://www.law.northwestern.edu/lawreview/v100/n4/1689/lr100n4rodriguez.pdf7. Shultz, Vicky. The sanitized workplace. Yale LJ, 2003. 2069-70. Print.8. Estlund, Cinzia. Working together: How workplace bonds strengthen a diverse democracy. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005. 256. Print.9. Keogh, Jack. “International Teams: Beyond Cultural Difference.” www.jackkeogh.com. Keogh and Associate Consulting, LLC, n.d. Web. May 6, 2012. http://www.jackkeogh.com/JK Multicultural Team Article.pdf10. "Masculinity." www.clearlycultural.com. ClearlyCultural.com, 2009. Web. May 6, 2012. http://www.clearlycultural.com/geert-hofstede-cultural-dimensions/masculinity/