by PCN (Parent-country nationals) are employees whose nationality is the same as that of the firm headquarters, when a company of a country recruits employee from its own country is known as PCN. Here the country is called parent country. For example, a German employee of a German company who is working at a Chinese subsidiary.
HCN (Host-country nationals) are employees who have the same nationality as the local subsidiary. When a company of a country runs their business in another country and recruits’ employees from that country then it is known as HCN. Here the second country is the host country. This could be a Chinese employee working at the Chinese subsidiary of the German company
TCN (Third-country nationals) are employees whose nationality is different from that of either the headquarters or the subsidiary office. In the above scenario, this might mean an Indian employee working at the Chinese office of the German company. They are the citizens of one country employed by a company from another country who worked in a third country.
