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rk sho p The International Workplace With the advent of new technologies and flexible working practices, more and more people are working internationally. In this article, Irina Astigeevich, Amazon Web Services Sales Leader for Europe, Middle East and Asia, shares her personal experiences of working across different countries and cultures.
T
he labour market has rapidly changed over
teammates and colleagues from other countries on a
the last couple of decades, adapting to global
daily basis, without seeing each other in person. Many
trends such as mobility, devices and big
jobs can now be performed by people who never go
data. Nowadays, almost every company embraces
to company offices and may not even be company
the “modern work place” concept, which suggests
employees – they may be freelancers or employed on
that employees can be effective doing their job
a part-time contract to deliver a particular project.
remotely using mobile devices and applications, if
The job opportunities on the international market
arranged right and supported through the respective
are now tremendous and richer than ever before. One
work culture. The adoption of the modern work
can now do jobs never dreamt of before, escaping
place principle is happening across many industries
the limits of geography, gender, time zone, race,
and professions – medicine, IT, art and others. The
physical capacity and others. One can only imagine
possibility of working remotely became a catalyst
how diverse working groups can now be. In my
for another phenomenon – the international work
previous role, whilst living in the UK, I was responsible
place. Millions of doctors, musicians, scientists,
for company business in 12 European countries –
artists, managers, engineers, journalists and sales
Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Italy, the
people now work remotely and collaborate with their
Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and 18
