Inside InterNations
To celebrate our Expat City Ranking 2021 getting published today, we have asked some of the InterNations team members what they most appreciate about the city they’re currently living in. Find out what expats and locals, long-term residents and new arrivals love about cities from Cape Town to Vilnius.
[Read more…] about Off Duty: What Do You Love Best about Your City?In the “Job Profiles” series, various members of the InterNations team talk about their role in the company and the work they do at InterNations. In this interview, Senior Quality Assurance Engineer Arusikha talks about her career in QA, relocating from Kolkata to Munich, and what she appreciates most about working at InterNations.
How does remote work affect our emotional well-being and mental health? You might get very different answers, depending on whom you ask. Working remotely does wonders for the mood of some employees. Others consider it one more stressor in their life.
To describe its potential impact on mental health, we’ve come up with two scenarios. The stories describe the same day in the life of two remote employees who work for the same company. The first is thriving, but her colleague experiences firsthand why remote work is bad for her mental health.
For some people, working remotely has lost its luster, becoming a lonely and boring experience. But this is not the case for InterNations members in search of connection. In the world’s largest community for people who live and work abroad, they can get access to a virtual co-working space where they sip their coffee and work alongside fellow expats and global minds. This is only one example of how online events enrich and empower global communities — and the feeling of isolation is just one reason for organizing them. We’ve interviewed our Senior Community Engagement Specialist Melody for her expertise in using online events as a vital tool in community building.
Does sustainability play a major role in your personal life? Do you eat only locally grown food, compost organic household waste, and ride your bike everywhere? Or are you fairly new to this topic and find such behavior a bit puzzling?
InterNations introduced our Sustainability Initiative in January 2020, and we officially became a carbon-neutral company about a year ago. Looking back at this milestone, we were interested in what individual team members think about this issue. We’ve asked six of them how they view sustainability in general and what role, if any, it plays in their life. The resulting range of opinions is rather wide — and hopefully thought provoking.
[Read more…] about Off Duty: Six Stances on Sustainability in the InterNations Team