As a project manager for an international company, in order to effectively take advantage of the lower employment costs of Southeast Asian employees, you can adopt the following strategies to allocate work tasks: 1. **Task Outsourcing**: Outsource tasks that are suitable for remote execution to Southeast Asian teams, such as data entry, customer support, software development, design, and other technical support. These tasks often do not require face-to-face communication and can be performed through online collaboration tools. 2. **Time-intensive work**: Assign tasks that require a lot of manpower time but relatively low technical requirements to Southeast Asian employees, such as data collation, basic data analysis, and report generation. 3. **Technical support and customer service**: Set up technical support and customer service centers in Southeast Asia to take advantage of labor costs and provide support services to global customers. 4. **24/7 coverage**: Take advantage of different time zones and provide services around the clock. Southeast Asian employees can continue to work after your local team goes off work, extending the working time window of the project. 5. **Development and design projects**: Hire technicians in Southeast Asia to work on projects such as software development, APP design, and website construction. In these fields, many Southeast Asian countries have abundant technical talents. 6. **Continuous skills training**: Improve the skills of Southeast Asian employees through training so that they can take on more complex tasks and gradually transition to high-value work. 7. **Local market expansion**: Use the knowledge of Southeast Asian employees in the local market to help your company expand the market in the region, conduct market research and marketing promotion. 8. **Performance evaluation and feedback**: Regularly evaluate the performance of Southeast Asian employees and give corresponding rewards to high-performance employees to maintain high levels of productivity and job satisfaction. Make sure that the implementation of these strategies can achieve both cost efficiency and take into account the career development and job satisfaction of employees. At the same time, pay attention to cross-cultural communication and team collaboration, and establish efficient management processes to support a global working model.