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Icelandic school project offers blueprint for better workplace culture
A 2023 work environment survey uncovered poor wellbeing and demanding conditions among kindergarten and primary school staff. Three years of targeted efforts to change workplace culture has led to improved atmospheres and work environments. Similar initiatives will now be introduced to Iceland’s healthcare sector.
5 minutes
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Why community is key for a good working life with ADHD
Signe Erritzøe has ADHD and trains people with the condition as well as companies in how to create a good working life with ADHD. One of the solutions is a common approach to working in a less dopamine-driven way.
9 minutes
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Five decades on, Sweden reopens the fight over working hours
Compared with Denmark and Norway, Sweden’s working week is several hours longer. This has been the case for around 40 years, but LO is now demanding that shorter working hours become part of the next round of central collective bargaining. Employers, however, are firmly opposed.
9 minutes
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Reduced hours, same productivity levels and a more sustainable working life
The six-month honeymoon period is over. The social services department and the accountancy firm that participated in the reduced working hours study have chosen to keep a shorter working week while maintaining output and wage levels. Some of the benefits are lower sickness rates, reduced staff turnover and more efficient ways of working.
10 minutes
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Work has no age limit: Helge (80) runs a hardware store
Of course it is possible to work after 65! Marcus Herold (76) and Helge Nevalainen (80) are good examples of this. Both way past retirement age but still busy in the labour market.
10 minutes
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100,000 outsiders – this is how businesses succeed through inclusion
Diversity and inclusion is about more than values. It is also good business, according to Oskar Eikeseth. He is a social economist working for EY, one of the world’s biggest consultancy firms. Eikeseth has cerebral palsy.
12 minutes
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Swedish Yalla Trappan – a model for successful labour market integration
Yalla Trappan in Malmö have cracked the code – the one that shortens the path for the women who are furthest from the labour market. Working in partnership with both the public and private sectors, the organisation is now entering its 20th year, including its initial project phase.
11 minutes
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From golden handshake to outplacement
Martin Olesen has held leadership positions for 25 years and has both given and received outplacement support to help find new jobs after redundancy. Outplacement has become part of the HR policy in many Danish companies.
5 minutes
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Sweden’s new SAO-jobs: Two hours a week that can change young people’s future
Giving eight-graders in disadvantaged areas SAO-jobs while they still attend school, helps fight marginalisation and builds their belief in the future. The youths work two hours a week for a year and are paid around 1,000 Swedish kronor before tax. From 2026, they are also covered by a collective agreement.
11 minutes
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How Iceland helps rising numbers of young people outside the labour market
At Stendur, a vocational rehabilitation centre in Hafnarfjordur in Iceland, young people who struggle and remain outside the labour market get help. “We help them get back on their feet and to find the direction they want to take their lives in,” says managing director for Stendur, Sveindís Anna Jóhannsdóttir.
6 minutes