Several things have come out of the realities businesses had to face during the Covid-19 pandemic. A significant effect was that many enterprises were forced into remote work and discovered that it wasn’t a threat to their profit margins or productivity. We redefined how we communicate, meet, plan and perform everyday tasks so that actual contact and the need to
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I think all of us have had those moments at our figurative work desks where we stared off into the distance and thought about how we could make the most of our lives. Perhaps it’s been on a Thursday afternoon, when your lunch break feels like it happened yesterday and hometime seems like something that will likely come in a
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When most people think of Iceland, they imagine volcanoes, snow, waterfalls and possibly Sigur Ros. Sure all of those things are associated with Iceland, but the country has so much more to offer than that. Not many would think about the fact that Iceland actually has a thriving and exciting economy. Iceland consistently ranks highly on lists like; the happiest
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In the past decade, the world has gotten a whole lot smaller in the sense that travel, connectivity and information are faster and more free-flowing than ever. We can also do things like work remotely, which gives us the chance to think about the place we choose to live in a whole new way. It’s now completely perceivable that you
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You wouldn’t be wrong if you thought Iceland was having a bit of a moment right now. In the past few years, we’ve seen this tiny nation in the North Atlantic consistently making itself known on the world’s stage. We’ve seen Icelanders become the Viking-clapping underdog heroes of the World Cup. We’ve all grown jealous of Instagram feeds from friends
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Many of us have spent years ‘getting good’ at our careers. We studied, we got internships, we worked our way up, we learned more. Perhaps we even started all over again and completely changed sectors. Once you have finally reached that point where you know what you’re doing and how well you compare against your contemporaries, it’s safe to say
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There are two certainties in life, death and taxes. This quote, popularised by American author and humorist Mark Twain, still rings true to this day. It doesn’t matter where you live; taxes are a necessary part of life. The only people who seem to have managed to find a way never to be part of a tax system are always
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We now live in a world where having a job doesn’t necessarily mean you are spending 9 to 5, Monday to Friday, in the same place working for the same person. Thanks to technological advances and the interconnected nature of the globe, new ways of earning an income pop up all the time. In the past decade alone, we have
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Remote work for many of us used to be an alien concept. It was something that your super-intelligent software developer friend did that you didn’t really understand. It was something that your cousin did from Thailand for a big multinational corporation where he got paid in Euros and lived like a king. Remote work used to be this mythical thing
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Whether you supported it or not, Brexit happened, and we are now living in a post-Brexit world. The freedom of movement once enjoyed by those who hold a UK passport has been permanently changed, and there are new ways of going about things we never really had to think about before. The UK relations to Iceland has changed. One of
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