I used to work for a Representative office where our head office was in Spain. Our Rep office was located in Asia since our sales were mostly targeted for the Asia market and those areas around the Asia Pacific region. Having said that, I also want you to know that all of us traveled so much because of meetings with clients as well as going back to the factory in Barcelona, not to mention touching base with the head office. We were rarely actually in our Rep office in Asia and if you all must know we paid a lot for our Representative office which in my opinion was unnecessary, at nearly $5K a month just to sit a few of us who were rarely around, just to invite our clients and customers over for business meetings.
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