Online Communities to Support Expatriates’ Spouses A commonreason why expatriate assignments fail is because the spouse indissatisfied. Employers are now seeing the value of helpingexpatriate spouses connect and many are using social network sitesto bring the spouses together. Questions What pros and cons do yousee in having an organization set up ist own social network foraccompanying spouses? What pros and cons to you see in referring anaccompanying spouse to an outside social network?