Tore and Michaela Teir founded Greenstep in January 2010. They knew they wanted to create an excellent work environment, but as the operations started without cash, all the furniture at the first office was bought second-hand. Their four sons joined in the community labor, and the whole family shared a vision of creating something great. The first CFO, accounting, and payroll consultants were recruited to the Espoo office during the first year. It was learned that a great setting alone does not create a great environment, but the people do!

The first annual wellness challenge for employees started: Each kilometer of cycling raised money for charity, and the employee with the most kilometers got to decide which charity the money was donated to. The first HR experts were hired to support our clients. New offices were opened in Tampere and Vaasa.

We continued to ensure the well-being of our personnel also with joyful events. We threw a “crab feast”, which had become an annual tradition, but in 2016 there were so many of us that we could no longer fit in Michaela and Tore’s living room. The party was held in their yard in a large tent.

We continued to recruit skilled employees; at the end of 2018, the team had grown to 200. We started a new service in BI analytics and offered our customers the implementation and development of BI platforms. Our enthusiastic cyclists traveled around Vettern in Sweden, and we also arranged a ski trip to Åre. Then one day, we decided to set up an office in Sweden too!

Greenstep turned ten years old, and the entire family of 300 colleagues celebrated it together in Helsinki. From March onwards, the whole company started working remotely due to the pandemic, but luckily our HR team took good care of us. We got screens to facilitate remote work, special coffee deliveries to cheer up coffee breaks, and many other pleasant surprises. We also extended to Sweden by introducing a small financial management team from Norrköping to the Greenstep family. We were more helpful than ever in supporting our Swedish customers to expand their operations to Finland and vice versa.

We also set up a transaction services -team, which organized three major acquisitions during its first year.

Our goals for 2022 included opening new offices in the Nordic countries and recruiting 200 new Greenstepers. We did this with our usual recipe: We do everything we can for our employees, and they do their best for our customers. Satisfied customers recommend us to others so that we could hire more employees for the Greenstep family.

In 2024, we continued our international growth, expanding our operations into the Netherlands and the UK. We extended our service offering through a new Salesforce partnership and won our first public sector customers.

In April, we became the first operator in our industry to achieve ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, as part of our efforts to prepare for ever-increasing security threats.