We are seeing more people coming from countries like Germany, Sweden, Finland and Denmark moving to warmer countries like Portugal, and working remotely. It is a synonym of globalization and technology allows this to happen smoothly with video-conference systems, collaboration tools and social networks.

Another interesting fact is that this Era of Information is bringing people closer and nowadays different cultures work together better than ever before, because the mindset is more similar, all due to the globalization and the progress of technology.

There are a lot of benefits of setting up a nearshore team in Portugal. in 2019 Velv gathered several studies and articles that helps visualize the struggles of some countries in Europe to hire talent in IT.

“Following Web Summit 2016, ESI — the European Startup Initiative — made a Startup Heatmap for Europe, based on interviews with European founders of start-ups and entrepreneurs. In the study, Lisbon ranked 5th best city for startups, well above the expected 25th place.”

Read more about this, in this article here

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