Øyvind Sveen, Author at

About Øyvind Sveen

Øyvind is Cultural and Collaboration advisor at Facilitated Work Hub. He is dedicated to enhancing the collaboration experience between the software developers in Vietnam and their co-employers in Norway. He works daily with cultural fit which is vital for successful employee - employer relationships leading to a low employee turnover in our company.

Onboarding into a Norwegian working environment: why do we do it?

For some companies, acquiring stable colleagues overseas may seem a risk. Will the cultural gap be too wide? At FWH, we minimize gaps and risks — by embracing a... read more →

May 27, 2022
Øyvind Sveen

5 clear advantages of pursuing an international developer career

All developers at FWH in HCMC have permanent positions in Norwegian companies. Now, we are diversifying: Vietnamese developers have headed to Norway, and a young Norwegian developer has... read more →

April 14, 2022
Øyvind Sveen

What kind of global software team is right for you?

And why should you join a global team? Let’s set the scene. By 2025, IDC expects USD 21$ billion in missed revenue for companies in the Nordic... read more →

November 23, 2021
Øyvind Sveen

EmployeeFeature #3- Software Career Abroad- What you need to know

Who does not want to leap at a chance of having a software career abroad? Maybe some of us wouldn't, but we guess many Software Engineers in... read more →

August 19, 2021
Øyvind Sveen

Employee Feature #2- How to become a key developer in a Norwegian company

Expert Fullstack Engineer Pham Thi Thuy celebrated 10 years with us in May this year. Such an occasion warranted a party in-house in our new sparkling office in... read more →

August 10, 2021
Øyvind Sveen

Employee Feature #1- 6 Great tips to secure your software developer job

How secure is your job in Vietnam? It’s a question we all found ourselves asking as businesses try to cut losses during the pandemic, as the lockdown... read more →

August 1, 2021
Øyvind Sveen

How to understand Norwegian Culture through food?

The food we eat is deeply connected to our culture. You can learn a lot about a particular culture by exploring their food. For this year’s Xmas party,... read more →

December 13, 2019
Øyvind Sveen

How travelling to Europe strengthens team spirit?

In late August, all six developers working for Noria Vietnam left their Facilitated Work Hub workstations and headed north. Destination: Noria HQ in the coastal town of Sandefjord, Norway. The... read more →

October 21, 2019
Øyvind Sveen

How can we influence others to help the Earth?

Earth day was created to wake up people like you and me. You might not be an environmentalist but at the same time you are concerned about the... read more →

April 22, 2019
Øyvind Sveen