The Five Principles of Career Development 1. We also delved into insights about Google from Work Rules! by Laszlo Bock, Google’s head of People Operations, ultimately finding five key insights.
We make it easy to find new friends and have a good professional life in the new country through great emphasis on social activities, a playful and fun culture, and values that are shared within the global Spotify family.To find out companies are engaging with their employees’ career progression, we spoke with Judit Schneider, a member of Spotify’s Learning and Development team (otherwise known as the Greenhouse team), and other flat organizations anonymously. Still, we learn as we go and do not rest on our laurels until the individual people experience is awesome. We acknowledge that moving to a foreign country is challenging – so we help! The smoother a relocation and the more fluid the settling-in period is, the better the experience for everyone – so we focus on and invest a lot in this. No one is an expat or a guest, they’re simply Spotifiers who joined from a different country. If we’re moving existing employees, the current contract is terminated and they are re-hired in the new location. We hire people in the new location on a local contract and with local terms. The Spotify approach to global mobility has been successful so far, and maybe this is why: It’s simply not us to have the ‘foreigner’ on different terms than the local employees, or to only give executives and more senior management the opportunity to get international experience. It doesn’t fit with how we jive and our culture, and would hinder our growth both in employee numbers and diversity. 
The traditional expat concept where employees are sent on 1-5 year temporary assignments, on a combination of home and host terms and don’t fully integrate with the local way of living is complex.
Consequently, our workforce is diverse, and global mobility is central to the Spotify culture. And the Spotifiers who already work for us get the opportunity to move when it’s better for us and for them to grow somewhere else.
We enable people to move because we like to hire the right people regardless of where they happen to live at the time of applying. Our employees move between countries because that’s who they are, and who we are.
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