What No One Tells You About Work in Finland [10 Things]

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  • Опубликовано: 29 окт 2024

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  • @AleksiHimself
    @AleksiHimself  2 месяца назад +4

    Moving to Finland soon? Get more confidence for your relocation with my Relocation Flowchart Guide: aleksihimself.ck.page/46a8340cac
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  • @cjjones52
    @cjjones52 2 месяца назад +6

    Thank you kindly for this! This seems like a better culture than what is here in the states. I’m tempted to go visit Finland when I’m able

  • @earlh
    @earlh 2 месяца назад +8

    About the work life balance thing, it depends on the industry and company.
    I have noticed that in tech field where I have worked here for over a decade that is not exactly the case so much.
    As you said, people expect you to get done by Friday if it was agreed so, you will see a lot people usually work a lot of extra hours.
    That happens pretty frequently since quite often deadlines are decided by people above you and estimation can get tricky often times.
    Another thing is that work is very flexible in Finland, but it has the negative issue that it makes tracking how much you work difficult.

    • @AleksiHimself
      @AleksiHimself  2 месяца назад

      Agreed!

    • @finlanderxx
      @finlanderxx Месяц назад

      On IT, the sprint deadlines (on Friday, which is usually the custom) are usually so arbitrary that you will do well, if you don't stress about them. If your team has a scrumm master who does stress about them, then just triple the work hour estimates initially, since they are going to fill the weeks with useless ceremonies you must attend. In the worst case it leads people to burn out or extreme go horsing the projects through. Luckily there are better work methodologies that are becoming more popular.

  • @AwieTeope-72t4WjJB
    @AwieTeope-72t4WjJB 2 месяца назад +3

    Thumbs up if you are Filipino working in Finland as a lähihoitaja. Aleksi's videos really helped me a lot.

  • @Rohit-zt1dk
    @Rohit-zt1dk Месяц назад +1

    All videos of yours are very helpful and informative about Finland and finnish culture. Thanks!

  • @konzmonz9223
    @konzmonz9223 2 месяца назад +16

    Your videos always make me think of the Fins as the most reasonable people in the whole world😊. Keep going!👍

    • @AleksiHimself
      @AleksiHimself  2 месяца назад +1

      Good stuff! 😃🙌

    • @incumbentvinyl9291
      @incumbentvinyl9291 Месяц назад +2

      *Finns
      Fish have fins!
      I can confirm that Finnish people are the most reasonable on the planet.

  • @easylearn9350
    @easylearn9350 2 месяца назад +1

    Important information to know before getting into trouble. Thanks, @Aleksi, for sharing these!

  • @davehenderson6125
    @davehenderson6125 Месяц назад

    This is fantastic information. Thank you Aleksi.

  • @Frank-wt6lg
    @Frank-wt6lg Месяц назад

    It's great that you tell the Finnish names of things, such as työttömyystuki. Not all foreign workers even think about these coming to Finland.

  • @Which_Numbers
    @Which_Numbers 2 месяца назад +5

    Nice and strongly necessary video. Accurate and landed to reality. Wait a second! Käärijä working with Kimi Räikkönen? Well thats News 🤣

  • @shahinbaghdasarian7456
    @shahinbaghdasarian7456 24 дня назад

    I'm really happy that hard work isn't a thing in Finland. Work causes lots of stress and negative feelings

  • @shahinbaghdasarian7456
    @shahinbaghdasarian7456 24 дня назад

    Hey Aleksi I've started learning Finnish on Duolingo a few weeks and im getting more used to the language
    Even though i still do kinda make mistakes but i tell myself "Its ok this is a really tough language that you are learning"

  • @kafir5801
    @kafir5801 2 месяца назад

    This is very informative for foreigners like me.
    I hope Perus S will not put you in prison for sharing such useful information with us.
    Kiitos paljon for your effort.

    • @incumbentvinyl9291
      @incumbentvinyl9291 Месяц назад

      The True Finns can not throw anyone in jail. This is up to the judgement of the neutral courts.
      Hopefully in the not so distant future unions will be outlawed and we can modernize away from communist ideologies.

  • @aLphawarrior063007
    @aLphawarrior063007 2 месяца назад

    Hi Aleksi, I have been watching your videos for a year now. Thank you for guiding me in my Finnish dream as a nurse. Can you make a video about the changes in citizenship? There had been a lot of misconceptions about it. Kiitoksia!

  • @KawaiiCat2
    @KawaiiCat2 2 месяца назад +2

    I’m glad Finland is so great with the unions! The professor union seems really neat!
    The unions in the states are kind of the same but Film Unions are not. They basically only let the “elite” join. If you want to work post production it’s extremely bad and no one helps. Don’t work in film unless you’re doing something on your own. If you want to work for a large studio, be prepared to be taken advantage of greatly. Yes this is from personal experience.

    • @AleksiHimself
      @AleksiHimself  2 месяца назад

      Thanks for sharing!

    • @incumbentvinyl9291
      @incumbentvinyl9291 Месяц назад

      Thankfully the tide is turning. The current government is cracking down on unions' rights so that they can not do substancial damage to the GDP.

  • @harrycslau
    @harrycslau 2 месяца назад

    This video is gold!
    I resonate with so many of your points, and also thanks for the tips!

  • @irenern1261
    @irenern1261 2 месяца назад +1

    great video !

  • @LifeIsGood-qg3xv
    @LifeIsGood-qg3xv 2 месяца назад

    You should also make videos on cool things to do in Finland. I visited Helsinki and it was awesome!

    • @AleksiHimself
      @AleksiHimself  2 месяца назад +1

      Here you go ruclips.net/video/jN5NbmP7ndw/видео.html

  • @Zagskrag
    @Zagskrag Месяц назад +1

    I work in a library, and often encounter immigrants who go there to scan, print or take copies of various documents to deliver them to different places. I'll try to keep your channel in mind if one of them would like to just get general advice on things like this.

  • @sebastianhabel7312
    @sebastianhabel7312 2 месяца назад

    You almost sold me to move to Finland! I visited Helsinki for the first time last week and really enjoyed it. If only your language was at least somehow similar to any language I speak.
    About flat hirarchies and using your first name in a professional context: I have dealt with Swedish customers, grown up men who didn't know me at all and vice versa, who started using their first names (and mine as well) at our first E-Mail contact and even used emojies. Do you Finns behave similarly? Greetings from Germany!

    • @AleksiHimself
      @AleksiHimself  2 месяца назад

      Good stuff! I think it's the same in the Nordic countries.

  • @percivalgraves521
    @percivalgraves521 Месяц назад

    Hi Aleksi, i am currently studying in Germany, but Finnland has always intrigued me as a country. The beautiful Nature alone is enough for me to satisfy many needs, since i love to hike for hours. I have this opportunity in my University - because there is an Erasmus Programm, which lets you do 1-2 semesters abroad - which cooperates with the University of Helsinki. I am studying Social Sciences (Social Economics, Political Science, Sociology). My question is, does Finnland actually look for people with this Degree, like are there Job offers for someone like me? Or is this direction not really prominant around Finnland? Maybe someone like you, who dealt with Job Searching and has studied there knows if Finnland is actually looking for people from this Field or not.

  • @magicofshootingstar
    @magicofshootingstar 2 месяца назад +3

    There are exceptions on the hierarchy rule though. For example in medical world there is clear structures where nurses don't criticize doctors (to their faces) and they follow their rules even when they actually know better. It's a bit sad.
    Talking though is informal in Finland in all of the occupations in a sense of using first names as mentioned.

    • @AleksiHimself
      @AleksiHimself  2 месяца назад

      Agreed. There can be industry-specfic differences.

    • @incumbentvinyl9291
      @incumbentvinyl9291 Месяц назад

      That's a good thing, as long as the doctors aren't bone headed. They have a higher education and get a higher salary because they have more responsibility. If we lived in a world where nurses could do it their way every time, then on average the patient would be worse off. The nurses shouldn't make critical final decisions.
      If a doctor is doing their job poorly in Finland, rest assured that there will be repercussions.

    • @magicofshootingstar
      @magicofshootingstar Месяц назад

      @incumbentvinyl9291
      In theory what you say is true. In practicality the nurse can have a lot more experience on specific things because often doctors are doctors of many things and the nurses have more specific areas of responsibility. But the doctor thinks they know best and that can have bad consequences. Also I don't think (when it's not a life and death situation right now) it would be bad for the doctors to listen ideas or feedback from the nurses too from time to time since they work quite closely together often. That I think should be normal in any workplace. What I have heard that's not often the case though in medical field.
      Also I would like to be naive and believe that doctors get repercussions of screw ups in Finland but I unfortunately know that in most of (public sectors) places have too few doctors and smaller the place the harder it's to get new ones there. So if the doctor doesn't do very big mistakes and multiple times it's unlikely for there to be any proper consequences for them.

    • @incumbentvinyl9291
      @incumbentvinyl9291 Месяц назад

      @@magicofshootingstar I disagree.
      A nurse can think they know best too. Doesn't mean they're right.
      Once again, I disagree. It's not difficult to lose your licence if you make mistakes.

    • @magicofshootingstar
      @magicofshootingstar Месяц назад

      @incumbentvinyl9291
      Well let's take a super simplistic example: nurse gives every day I fluids to fifteen patient. A doctor prescribes two of them a day. Which one would you prefer to decide the correct dosage and the spot to put the IV? The more educated doctor or the nurse who works with that specific thing many times every day? This is of course just a caricature of bigger things but you get the idea.
      About losing the license: more often than not it's up to patient to prove that there has been malpractice and then bring that to higher ups (potilasasiamies) and then if there are enough of those cases and they are bad enough there can be license lost. I personally know some cases where there has been clear malpractice but the doctor has fudged the patients records to sound like they didn't do anything wrong and the hospital doesn't take responsibility at all officially even if in private they have admitted the mistakes. Unfortunately those people who need to live with the consequences haven't felt strong enough to bring it to forward and fight for it. Not that it would bring their health back but it would make the doctor more careful next time. Not to mention the times when there hasn't actually happened anything bad but the doctor just thinks they know what's wrong with you before they talk with you and hear that things they are suggesting aren't possible and then they stuck with their intuition until you get lab results that say you where right all along and you still don't know why you were sick. Those cases especially don't get reported anywhere.

  • @joetigo2928
    @joetigo2928 Месяц назад

    I'm gonna apply to join a union right now. Thanks for the heads up.

  • @stefanosbrilakis5065
    @stefanosbrilakis5065 2 месяца назад +1

    With climate change heat in South Europe ,Finland is becoming more and more a tourist destination . However most finnish products have only finnish and swedish language on it ,so you can't understand basic things about the product. Finnish people must be prepared for more tourism in their country in the near future.

    • @AleksiHimself
      @AleksiHimself  2 месяца назад

      Fair enough.

    • @incumbentvinyl9291
      @incumbentvinyl9291 Месяц назад

      That's not true. No statistics indicate any such shift in tourism.
      Typical tree hugging nonsense that has nothing to do with reality.

  • @LaTraina
    @LaTraina 2 месяца назад

    Hi, I have some confusions with this Finnish unions and YTK Työttömyyskassa. Does it pay unemployment benifits like the KOKO? I have been joined for the YTK for more than year now. But I'm thinking should I change it with a Union instead? At the time I joined I had less understanding about these. Can you explain a bit about these two?

    • @AleksiHimself
      @AleksiHimself  2 месяца назад +1

      To summarize, YTK is only an unemployment fund (the name literally means "The general unemployment fund), but they ARE NOT a union.
      When you join a union, there Is always an unemployment fund membership associated with it.
      If I were you, I would research what union fits your case the best, join that, and dump YTK.

    • @juha-mattikvist7883
      @juha-mattikvist7883 2 месяца назад +2

      I have to say that Aleksi sounds more like a marketing person for the unions. If you join the unemployment fund for example YTK, they will pay you a higher unemployment benefit during unemployment if you meet their criteria. I am fairly sure that every union is also a member of some unemployment fund, so you will get the higher unemployment benefit regardless. The bonuses the union offers for their early annual fee varies from union to union.
      The question you have to ask yourself is: Do you benefit from these bonuses that the unions offer?
      You can read about them on their websites.
      You will get the same raises to your salary that the unions negotiate regardless if you are a union member or not.
      Personally, I was not happy with my own union and I am now a former member. I am an engineer and I was not happy with the results and actions of our union so I quit. I am now a member of an unemployment fund only. I did not see any benefits in being a member. We basically got some local discount at various locations and the union provides some interesting statistics and courses and it is good to know that if you get in a disagreement with your employer the union lawyer will help you out.
      But as I see it our union failed in every negotiation and the bonuses were miniscule.
      I might get some hate for not being a supporter of the unions but I don't care. I will join a union only if I am on their payroll.

    • @Redgethechemist
      @Redgethechemist Месяц назад

      Totally agree, I am at YTK as it covers unemployment and is very cheap while unions usually take a certain percentage from your salary( even if tax deductible, 2-3% is a lot of money) and unless you belong to a very special professional category where you might get abused by employers, there’s not much more you can get. As a manager, my contract does not follow collective agreements anyway as mentioned on the contract. All you could get is maybe better connections and job offers via your professional union. I also noticed that unions are pushing some of my employees to ask for pay rises very often, obviously they want their members to pay more. My technicians who are members of this union were actually entitled to an extra yearly bonus of a few hundred euros.

    • @AleksiHimself
      @AleksiHimself  Месяц назад

      @@juha-mattikvist7883 I am speaking from personal experience. I was exploited at one of my previous jobs, and my union offered legal assistance from layers for free. Eventually, we found a settlement without having to go to court.
      Plus, the unions help understanding the job contartcs, collective agreements and more.
      AFAIK, YTK does not offer anything else than just the fun, meaning that you're on your own if have trouble at work.

  • @RiteshSingh-zt6pw
    @RiteshSingh-zt6pw 2 месяца назад

    Hi,
    Saw many of your video. They have really good informations. I am planning to move on study.
    Please make a video on the the government benifits like kela. What benifits are provided on A Type permit and B type permit or do both permit gets the same benifits. I search many videos but was unable to find any which specifies depends on type permit.

  • @mohananirudh5714
    @mohananirudh5714 2 месяца назад +1

    Please make a video about medical residency in Finland.

    • @AleksiHimself
      @AleksiHimself  2 месяца назад

      What do you mean by medical residency?

    • @mohananirudh5714
      @mohananirudh5714 Месяц назад

      How to work as a doctor in Finland as an foreign graduate.

  • @mizulightblue
    @mizulightblue 2 месяца назад +1

    How can I know if a company is fake or not? Because there are a few fake once in Finland, too many.
    And in a job interview, they usually ask you how much money you want per hour. How should I know what is the usual hour per money for a specific job? Like if you say something too low, they take you. If you say something too high, then they look at you weird. How to know the balance to this. (coming from a country where you get fixed amounts of money)
    And because of that, there can be easily done work exploitation.
    Also, is YTK a union too? They pay a lot too when you get fired and unemployed.
    And about the 2 days holidays in a month: Isn't that only when you have worked in that company for at least a year? In the first year you don't get any holiday at all, what I have heard.

    • @AleksiHimself
      @AleksiHimself  2 месяца назад

      I'll answer in the same order as your questions:
      Quickly research the company's website and check their numbers on Finder.fi. If the company seems shady, they probably are.
      For salary, you should also research what other similar positions get paid. It's okay to suggest a higher salary, but you need to have grounds and negotiation skills.
      YTK is not a union; it is an employment fund. That¨s why I don't recommend YTK.
      As for the holidays, you do start accumulating 2 days per month, but depending on when you start working, you may not have many available holiday days during the holiday period, so you can't have a long paid holiday.

    • @mizulightblue
      @mizulightblue 2 месяца назад

      @@AleksiHimself ok thanks for your answers :D

    • @leena2522
      @leena2522 Месяц назад +1

      To clarify: only the vacation days accumulated before April are counted towards that summer's available vacation days. Those accumulated after April are to be used next summer. So if you started at a job on February 1st you accumulated 4 vacation days for this year's summer vacation, and by the end of next year's March you will accumulate 25 days for next year's summer vacation (2 d/m on your first year and 2,5 d/m after you have worked a full year). You can reserve some vacation days to be used later in the year, but you should be able to have at least two weeks of uninterrupted holiday during the summer months. This varies a bit by TES. For some ancient reason vacation week saturdays also eat up your vacation days, so for every week of vacation you use up 6 vacation days.

    • @AleksiHimself
      @AleksiHimself  Месяц назад

      @@leena2522 thanks for the clarification!

    • @finlanderxx
      @finlanderxx Месяц назад +1

      You can also find employees listed on different positions on the company websites and then use those names to find their yearly income from the computers in the tax office that are freely available for the public for anyone to search

  • @onzie9
    @onzie9 2 месяца назад

    Does it count as being fired if you don't make it through a probationary period?

    • @AleksiHimself
      @AleksiHimself  2 месяца назад

      Yes, if the employer decides to terminate during the probation.

  • @akumayoxiruma
    @akumayoxiruma 2 месяца назад +1

    Nautin saunatapahtumista, koska on hyvä hetki hengailla rennosti työtovereiden kanssa, eikä asunnossani valitettavasti ole saunaa... Joten käyn saunassa mieluummin tuttujen ihmisten kuin tuntemattomien kanssa. 🌫

  • @stasacab
    @stasacab 2 месяца назад

    I never had a shop steward or työehtosopimus. Unemployment fund is like gambling, you might get more money or then not.

  • @JinkiesMissJenks
    @JinkiesMissJenks 2 месяца назад

    Knowing that sauna is big part of Finn culture; what is a polite way to excuse oneself if invited (work or friends)? *due to health reasons; not uptight American reasons 😂
    Thank you.

  • @5anttu7
    @5anttu7 2 месяца назад +2

    Cool 😮

  • @bakeraus
    @bakeraus Месяц назад +2

    Careful that in Finland you also have no minimum wage, you will see most employment which is gig economy, cleaning, etc will have extremely hourly rate. You can be exploited quickly, so know your rights like the video explains. Protect yourself as employers will even rip you off like any other country.

    • @AleksiHimself
      @AleksiHimself  Месяц назад +2

      I agree. Yhat's why you should get a union membership because they will help to prevent and deal with any exploits

    • @bakeraus
      @bakeraus Месяц назад

      @@AleksiHimself Can you join a union if you are a freelancer? I am chasing money from a company because they cut off all contact and won't pay for invoice after doing work for them.

    • @AleksiHimself
      @AleksiHimself  Месяц назад +1

      @@bakeraus there is a union for entrepreneurs: www.yrittajat.fi/en/

  • @Leopardipzg
    @Leopardipzg Месяц назад

    No one also tells that in Denmark you get 3900 euros per month for cleaning, while in finland just 2200 euros. While they still maintain same tax rate.

    • @AleksiHimself
      @AleksiHimself  Месяц назад

      Thanks for letting us know!

    • @incumbentvinyl9291
      @incumbentvinyl9291 Месяц назад

      Please tell them all so that they'll go to Denmark and clean instead.
      Many thanks in advance!

  • @steffanogini7481
    @steffanogini7481 Месяц назад

    Hello man, I had a quick question for you, so I own an Italian passport, therefore I also own the Italian citizenship, I’m 22 and I was wondering if you have any email or something, so I could reach you out privately for some info or guidance assistance so I could get things sorted out? I would love to move in to Finland some time soon and you seem someone trustworthy to ask about it.

  • @simoroshka
    @simoroshka 2 месяца назад

    When your CEO's name is actually Mikko :D

    • @AleksiHimself
      @AleksiHimself  2 месяца назад +1

      One of the most common names in Finland .D

  • @topilehtiniemi3291
    @topilehtiniemi3291 Месяц назад +4

    Herra liiton mies sanoo että on väärä maa jos meinaa tehä kovasti töitä. Kuvastaa hyvin liiton miehiä.

  • @shahinbaghdasarian7456
    @shahinbaghdasarian7456 24 дня назад

    Also I took a lot videos and photos in Rovaniemi around December, Everytime I go back to take a look at them I really missed that city in Finland it was really cool and peaceful

  • @mhyotyni
    @mhyotyni Месяц назад

    Asialliset hommat hoidetaan, muuten ollaan kuin ellun kanat. 🐔