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Work place health promotion – a double-edged sword
Pedometers, weight clubs, gym memberships – more and more companies invest in their employees’ health. For most the results are good. But work place health promotion can also create second-class workers, according to a new study from Umeå Universitet.
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Theme: Not only green, but good
What does it mean to be green? As huge investments are made in renewable energies, other values may be sacrificed. Nordic Labour Journal has visited some green companies in the Nordic region. One of them, Tomra, makes reverse vending machines that collects three percent of the 700 billion drinks containers in the world. That means…
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Norwegian Point Carbon has its finger on the pulse of emission trading
A smiling Barack Obama adorns Per Otto Wold’s office coffee mug. Mr Wold is CEO at Point Carbon, a Norwegian provider of news, analysis and consulting services for the global power, gas and carbon markets. President Obama doesn’t sit on his desktop by chance. The American President is on everybody’s mind here.
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Positive factors at work – a new perspective
What makes workers happy and content, and what keeps organisations healthy and productive? What makes workers resilient and good at adapting when more and more is demanded of them in an ever changing environment?
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The best research has people-focus
Working life research in the Nordic region has highlighted big changes in how businesses are run. So-called borderless working life offers flexible working hours and less division between work and leisure. But what are the long-term consequences?
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Striking the right work-life balance
There’s a lot of focus on finding a balance between work and private life these days. Despite all the good intentions, it is hard to imagine real change will come about before we seriously address the difficulties in getting the right mix of family and working life.
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Committing to a sustainable corporate life
It’s called CSR – Corporate Social Responsibility, and it’s the largest project of its kind in Europe. Danish business leaders to be coursed in social responsibility – known as CSR. This autumn sees the beginning of a major project, which involves sending 12.000 business leader.
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Well-being at work sparks productivity
Facing global competition Finland’s way: go for sustainable working life.
5 minutes
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No easy way to lower sick leave
In Norway the co-operation between the government, the unions and the employers is usually very close. But September saw an unprecedented quarrel among the three parties about who should pick up the bill for the rising cost of sick leave.
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Older workers: A mental change for Finland
The number of employed people over 55 years of age has increased more in Finland than in most other European countries in recent years. A full three quarters of the 300.000 jobs created between 1999 and 2001 were taken by older men and women.
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