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  • The fight against increasing sick leave

    Sweden and Norway are well off compared to the rest of Europe when one considers the living standard, the working environment, social security and average life expectancy. The economy of these societies is threatened, however, by ill health and overwhelming numbers of sick notes.

    5 minutes

  • Aluminium, Jobs and Environment

    Six hundred new jobs in a small fjord in eastern Iceland can save a community facing difficult times. This is the point of view of local people in the East fjords who now have high hopes that an aluminium plant will be built in Reydarfjördur in the nearest future.

    4 minutes
    Aluminium, Jobs and Environment

  • Weekend in mid-week

    Three days’ work and three days off is a model that is increasingly being tried out in Sweden, especially in the health service and care of the elderly.

    3 minutes

  • Long term trends in the Nordic discourse on work organization

    The long term trend in work organization has clearly been in the direction of more autonomy and responsibility associated in the work role. This has been combined with a greater emphasis on the ability of each and every member of the organization to communicate directly with other members of the organisation as well as with…

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  • In Hillerød they sleep at work

    Employees work better after an afternoon nap, which is a good thing both for them and for their employer.

    1 minute

  • Well-being at work

    Nordic efforts to improve working environments are now beginning to show results. Tarja Filatov, Finland’s Minister of Labour, has brought the attention of the Nordic Council to the economic significance that a good working environment can have for businesses and the national economy.

    3 minutes

  • Kongsberg: Working together for growth

    By investing in networks, partnerships and closer co-operation between research and private industries, Norway intends to concentrate on growth and innovation over the next ten years. This initiative, entitled “Value Creation 2010”, was launched at a conference in Kongsberg at the end of October.

    4 minutes

  • Co-operation and competition for success

    Gnosjö is home to one of Sweden’s most successful industrial regions and, paradoxically, also one with the lowest level of education.

    3 minutes

  • Need for closer co-operation on labour force mobility between Nordic and Baltic countries

    Ministers of labour from the Nordic countries and Baltic states have agreed to increase bilateral and multilateral dialogue and the exchange of views on common labour market policy issues actively and on all levels.

    6 minutes

  • Nordic men want equal opportunities

    It’s a myth that Swedish and Norwegian men only take paternity leave so they can go deer hunting. Research shows that men have the same reasons as women, according to the Nordic men’s conference in Copenhagen.

    2 minutes