Like many expats, he was drawn to the work-life balance in Sweden, where fewer than 1% of employees clock up more than 50 hours a week (one of the lowest rates in the OECD), new parents are given 480 days of leave to look after their infants, and childcare is heavily subsidised.

“I’m not earning as much as I could in London, or in Silicon Valley where I worked before, but when you look at the cost of living and work-life balance overall it’s just not comparable,” he says, adding that he feels both “physically and mentally healthier”.

“Everyone with kids leaves the office at 5pm, so I’ve got time to do yoga or read,” he says. “In London I would work until 9pm and then we’d go home and order takeaway.”

Sweden’s flat business structure is also a boon for many international workers, including Zhen Li from China. She works as an engineer for global graph database company Neo Technology, which has one of its European offices in Malmö.