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How to navigate punctuality expectations across Nordic work cultures

Our international team has people in Germany, Sweden, and Denmark and everyone thinks their country does punctuality 'correctly' and every meeting starts with this weird dance of who's early, who's exactly on time, and who thinks being exactly on time is somehow late.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group is discovering that even within similar cultures, the precise choreography of time carries different meanings.

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