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Working on the Baltic Sea – long shifts and a close community tema

Working on the Baltic Sea – long shifts and a close community

Apr 27, 2023 The ferries between the Nordics and the Baltics are important transport corridors and keep a lot of people in employment. One of the boats doing the crossing is Aura Seaways, where 52 crew live and work for four weeks at a time.
Working women’s psychological ill health made worse by uneven structures tema
| May 2016

Working women’s psychological ill health made worse by uneven structures

May 20, 2016 There has been a strong increase in work-related psychological ill health in Sweden in recent years. People working in the health, education and care sector are particularly exposed. But this is not only a Swedish phenomenon. The same development can be found in all developed economies, and hardest hit are women and youths.
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Workplace battlegrounds: Are Norwegian employees being criminalised?

May 28, 2021 How should an employer handle workplace conflicts? In Norway, it is becoming increasingly common to hire external consultants to perform a workplace investigation. The consultants often come from a legal or psychological background. Employees risk being exposed to situations resembling police interrogations – yet with no legal protection, warn researchers Bitten Nordrik and Tereza Østbø Kuldova.
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Workplace cooperation key to Nordic model's success

Dec 14, 2012 Many wonder how the Nordic countries manage so well through the economic crisis. It is often said it is because of their economic policies, yet the reality is more complex. This year marks 50 years since Norway’s employees (organised in LO) and employers (organised in NHO) began their cooperation project. Bjørn Gustavsen takes a look at how autonomy and workplace learning became central to the project:
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Workplace equality depends on early life choices

Mar 08, 2013 Sweden has one of the world’s most equal societies. Yet there are still major differences between men and women. A man’s lifetime earnings is on average two million Swedish kronor more than a woman’s.
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Workplace learning depends on what we learned in school

May 21, 2015 Our capacity to learn at work is to a large degree dependent on what we have learned in school, and working life cannot fully compensate for differences in formal schooling. That is according to a new Nordic survey which builds on the OECD’s large skills survey PIAAC. Many women in a gender segregated labour market are even loosing their numeracy skills.
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Workplaces must take the ageing workforce into account

Oct 23, 2017 When the workforce ages, workplaces face new challenges. This is particularly true for occupations where physical work makes up nearly all of the working day, according to Maria Albin, the keynote speaker at a European high-level conference on the working environment to be held in Bilbao in November.
Would-be exchange students losing out nyhet

Would-be exchange students losing out

Sep 07, 2020 International experience is important in a lot of occupations, but for many, the corona pandemic has left the dream of a colourful CV in tatters.
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