Good working conditions for foreign knowledge workers  

The working conditions in Danish workplaces give employees the possibility to create a good balance between work and family life. Generally working hours are 37 hours a week, and everybody is entitled to 5 weeks holiday a year. At the same time, employees generally have a lot of influence on their work, and work-related challenges and competence development are prioritized highly.
 
Special low tax for foreign knowledge workers  

When you are working in Denmark, you benefit from the Danish welfare system. In addition, if you are a key employee or a researcher, you may also be subject to the particularly favourable 25% tax scheme. In this scheme, key employees and researchers recruited abroad pay a much lower tax for the first three to five years in Denmark.

Danish businesses  

Denmark is known for being among the world top when it comes to a very diverse range of products and services, including food, furniture and clothing, design and interior design, sea transport, windmills, pharmaceuticals, equipment for automatic cooling and heating, sensitive measuring instruments, as well as IT and communication.
 
Denmark has a first-class research and development environment with excellent relations between the private and the public sectors. Many foreign companies benefit from this by establishing their research and development activities in Denmark or by using research competences from Danish companies.

The management and staff lay a great deal of weight on communicating in English when there are foreigners present, in all situations from meetings over presentations and internal messages to informal chat between colleagues.

Danish workplaces are characterized by an absence of the highly hierarchical structure found in many other countries. The line of command between the boss and the employees is short, and in principle everyone - regardless of education, position or social status - is regarded as equal.

The boss listens to his staff and is willing to take advice because he sees them as specialists in their own fields. It is common to find the boss taking his lunch with the staff and standing in the same queue in the canteen.

Responsibility and influence are valued highly - higher than, e.g., salary and employment security

Denmark offers a harmonic balance between professional and domestic life 

Denmark has got far in the difficult establishment of a balance between professional and domestic life. The law provides for good fundamental conditions for employees, and a heightened focus on the subject in recent years has increased the understanding for the needs of employees.
 
Good childcare facilities for all ages makes it possible for parents to go to work, and short distances between home and work mean more time with the family. Few people commute for more than one hour, and most commute far less.

The average working week is 37 hours, usually between 8 AM and 5 PM, Mondays to Fridays. Meetings rarely end after 5 PM, and most workplaces respect their employees' need to leave to pick up their children. Many highly educated people work flexible hours, and are able to plan their working hours to suit their needs. Home offices with broadband internet connections increase flexibility, and have been gaining ground in recent years.
 
Parents are given a paid day off on their child's first day of illness. Moreover, everyone has the right to five weeks' holiday, of which three weeks can usually be taken consecutively during the school summer vacation period.
Many years' debate about the conditions of working parents have created a high degree of awareness, and many companies heighten their profile by respecting their employees' need for time with their families.

Good conditions for families with children

• Good childcare possibilities
• Five weeks' holiday
• 37-hour working week
• Paid day off on child's first day of illness
• Flexible working conditions
• Short commuting
• Respect for domestic life

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