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Changes to IT affect systems as well as the social environment
Many businesses and organisations change their IT systems, yet in 70 percent of cases the change ends in failure with regard to time, budget or function. There have been many studies of what went wrong. Einar Iveroth chose to study what went right in the cases that succeeded.
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Why Swedes are aware of integration issues
What is it that the trade unions and employers in Sweden do to make them top a ranking of awareness of integration issues made by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)?
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Coaches compete for the unemployed Swedes
The Swedish government has charged the Public Employment Service with procuring coaches worth 1.1bn Kronor (€12m) for the year 2009. This created a fast growing market for coaching. Today 900 businesses have a contract with the employment service. The contracts don’t guarantee any customers, however, and the businesses offering coaches must do their own marketing.
8 minutes
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Swedish employers and trade unions most aware of work place racism
Awareness of racism in the workplace is growing yet still very low in many EU countries. Swedish employers and trade unions have the highest awareness, while those in Estonia have the lowest, according to a European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) report.
4 minutes
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Visa-free zone heralds Norwegian-Russian labour market in the North
Another milestone in Norwegian-Russian cooperation is reached as Norway and Russia agrees on visa-free travel for border region residents,. The visa-free zone crosses the Schengen border, making it a rarity in Europe. Yet there are reasons to remain patient. It could take another 12 months before the agreement comes into force.
9 minutes
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The changes hidden behind the smokescreen
As the Iron Curtain came down, contacts between the Nordic region and Russia multiplied. Yet the image of the Eastern neighbour needs updating, even in the part of the Nordic region which has enjoyed the friendliest relationship – the Norwegian municipality of Sør-Varanger on the border with Russia. The nickel plant across the border has…
5 minutes
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Russian Arcady’s weekly commute to Finland
Many travel the 400 kilometres between Helsinki and St Petersburg on business. Yet despite improved communications, a common labour market still is some time away.
4 minutes
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Visa-free travel between Russia and the EU – what will happen?
Most people in the Nordic countries take it for granted that they can travel abroad without the need for a visa. It’s only needed for exotic destinations – or Russia. And Moscow uses every opportunity to bring the issue up with the EU.
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Danish Activation Centres provide link to working life
There’s no better place to train for working life than in a workplace. That’s the basic idea of Denmark’s new Activation Centres. They work with the most challenging group of unemployed people, yet results are good. David Andersen is supported by his mentor Tina Andersen at the Kvickly supermarket.
6 minutes
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OECD: the most exposed young must get help now
“If we want to avoid a generation of unemployed, it’s time to help the most exposed to get jobs or education. In the long term we need structural measures to improve the basic system,” says Stefano Scarpetta, the OECD’s deputy director for employment, labour and social affairs.
6 minutes