As a result, people with specific skills, often much lower down the company ladder than the typical expat of the past, now work abroad for a few weeks or months at a time.Employees' lives have altered too, in ways that make long foreign postings less attractive.
But Georgian authorities said the move to long-term postings was dangerous.
But over the past decade, they have been repeatedly called up for missions that often involve long-term postings abroad.
But "our leaders often do not set a good example," says Bernard Huisman, the company's chief health adviser.And indeed, the cost of fewer long-term postings may be more short trips.
"In a free and open society internet users should generally be able to post comments on their recent experience or on current events, as long as such postings do not fall foul of the law," Ms Seager wrote at the time.
Most of America's chief executives got to the top by following the how-to manual -- business school, foreign postings, long hours, on and on.
Throughout his postings, Long described violence as the solution to what he saw as oppression of black Americans.
Although the end of foreign postings has long been predicted, many companies are sending more people abroad than ever before.
But more recently, agents discovered, Dr. Ivins had left a long trail of online postings about Kappa Kappa Gamma.
The South has long censored content for postings that it believes support North Korea, but international groups that fight censorship have more recently accused the government of cracking down on political critics.
