I wish these articles would sometimes be more analytical on the relationship between langusge and communication.
First of all it is not only about the language skills of the staff but also the customer’s ability to understand and communicate in English.
And unfortunately also there should be more talk about the English language skills used in Finnish workplaces. Currently I work at a predominantly Finnish workplace with predomjnantly customers that use Finnish. Sadly almost all of my colleagues and bosses (all Finns) are very bad in English and could not handle an English language meeting by themselves. They always then ask the few ones with fluent English to join their English language meetings to support them.
I would like to see language skills compensated clearly in wages. That creates people financial incentives to learn them. Also Finns but especially non Finns during working at some place.
DiethylamideProphet on
It’s little steps like these that will make a native person feel like a tourist in his and his ancestors’ country in a few generations. A total collective disconnect from the past when it comes to culture, language, religion and identity.
xYarbx on
Hmm I wonder why business that is very dependent on labor cost would want to import people that generally have lower wage ambitions. People don’t confuse the fact that what is good for the business would also be good for worker or wider society.
Orkekum on
As long as they do their job and we atleast share one common language, minimum english, i am ok
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I wish these articles would sometimes be more analytical on the relationship between langusge and communication.
First of all it is not only about the language skills of the staff but also the customer’s ability to understand and communicate in English.
And unfortunately also there should be more talk about the English language skills used in Finnish workplaces. Currently I work at a predominantly Finnish workplace with predomjnantly customers that use Finnish. Sadly almost all of my colleagues and bosses (all Finns) are very bad in English and could not handle an English language meeting by themselves. They always then ask the few ones with fluent English to join their English language meetings to support them.
I would like to see language skills compensated clearly in wages. That creates people financial incentives to learn them. Also Finns but especially non Finns during working at some place.
It’s little steps like these that will make a native person feel like a tourist in his and his ancestors’ country in a few generations. A total collective disconnect from the past when it comes to culture, language, religion and identity.
Hmm I wonder why business that is very dependent on labor cost would want to import people that generally have lower wage ambitions. People don’t confuse the fact that what is good for the business would also be good for worker or wider society.
As long as they do their job and we atleast share one common language, minimum english, i am ok
Cheap labour goes brrrrrrrt…