{"id":22855,"date":"2026-08-28T19:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=22855"},"modified":"2026-09-11T19:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T18:35:12","slug":"daily_4195_-_evidi_weekend_day_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2026\/08\/28\/daily_4195_-_evidi_weekend_day_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 4195 &#8211; Evidi weekend day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of September 1st, Active Solution becomes part of Evidi, a larger group of consulting companies. I don&#8217;t yet know enough about them to have a firm opinion on whether I like this or not. Or, rather, I don&#8217;t particularly like it, because I intentionally joined a smaller consultancy instead of going for one of the big ones, but I&#8217;m not all that upset either &#8211; maybe I will learn to like it. It is what it is, for now.<\/p>\n<p>Every summer, Evidi gathers all their employees for a weekend in the countryside. Today was day 1 of a three-day weekend in Str\u00f6mstad.<\/p>\n<p>Well, first I got a three-hour train ride, an hour in G\u00f6teborg, and two more hours on a bus. I had time to see G\u00f6teborg cathedral, a few canals (including one with small flowering, floating, artificial islands) and a second hand shop.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4195_Evidi_weekend_1.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4195_Evidi_weekend_2.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4195_Evidi_weekend_3.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Evidi is mostly a Norwegian company, even if they have some of their business in Sweden and Denmark. The mood in Str\u00f6mstad was seriously dampened by the death of Norway&#8217;s King Harald V.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4195_Evidi_weekend_5.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The half-day of conferencing we did was par for the course. Leadership figures going through presentations telling everyone about how great the company was and how well it was doing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4195_Evidi_weekend_4.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And a case study to be discussed and solved in small groups. Too bad that all the 47 small groups were crammed in one giant conference hall, and 90% of everyone was speaking Norwegian. I barely heard half of what people said due to the noise levels, and understood barely half of that, so I had no chance of participating in any of the discussions. Good thing I had brought my knitting.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4195_Evidi_weekend_6.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of September 1st, Active Solution becomes part of Evidi, a larger group of consulting companies. I don&#8217;t yet know enough about them to have a firm opinion on whether I like this or not. Or, rather, I don&#8217;t particularly like it, because I intentionally joined a smaller consultancy instead of going for one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,768,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-photography-2","category-travels","category-career"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22857,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22855\/revisions\/22857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}