A year ago, today…
Many of you know that I have spent almost half a year in New Zealand earlier this year. It was a fantastic experience to be on such a ‘short term assignment’, moving the family, settling into a new country and…
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“Willing to go the extra mile”
Companies increasingly depend on their employees to invest their time and enthusiasm. With my colleagues Mette Strange Noesgaard and Snejina Michailova, we just published an article about the work engagement of assigned expats (AEs). This blog post summarizes our main…
How to make friends in South Korea
Some countries are more difficult for expats to make local friends in than others, for example Denmark. South Korea is another country that is ranking low on the InterNations survey in terms of the categories “feeling at home” and “making…
Living in an expat compound
Guest blog post by Dr Reto Wegmann, Senior Advisor of Swiss Ibex LLC, Lecturer at the University of Lucerne1 Making friends with locals is much more difficult when expats do not live among the local population, but rather in expat…
How do expats make new friends?
‘The happy expat needs friends’, yes, but how does this work? What helps and what doesn’t? And what can expats do to help the process along? Read here some of the highlights of my research based on 72 interviews with…