The benefit is that we can attract more people to come, live and work in Sweden.

This is a job that Swedish Girls Abroad™ is already excelling at. The amount of sob stories from british, australian and american expats lured here by some blond vixen one has had to sit through…

(Come to think of it, we should probably discourage people from coming here instead, it rarely ends well. Be advised: Sweden is cold, dark and no one past 25 wants to make new friends. Education and culture is regarded with suspicion. When swedes hear music, they clap on beats 1 and 3. The younger generations even pissed away their social safety net to a large extent, which basically was their only USP as a country. It’s a culture of bean counting engineers with emotional lives irrevocably damaged by protestantism; don’t come here, if you value your sanity.)

While I have myself hired people and told them they don’t need to learn Swedish to live in our society, they’ve come back and said that actually they felt they needed to when they had settled and had kids.

Great, so let’s make all Swedish speakers feel this way instead of your inconvenienced employees (because you gave them bad advice). Most swedes aren’t as fluent as they believe themselves to be and prefer to speak swedish in day to day situations. When you have kids, you can’t live in your own little bubble anymore.