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Today’s typical work-related diseases don’t damage your lungs or injure your joints, but information work can cause mental health problems. At Accenture Co, which is a leading global enterprise offering specialist services and solutions, problems are prevented by a positive leadership culture and allowing people to manage their own work.
The pressure to develop work and improve productivity is great in the social and health care sector. Openness and cooperation have proven to be successful recipes in the city of Joensuu. A new measurement tool developed at the University of Lapland demonstrates clearly the relationship between productivity and the well-being of the employees.
The Lean approach promises more with less effort. The idea of continuous improvement prevails at the Valmet factory, where the employees were eager to develop their work. Productivity improved, and so did job satisfaction.
Nina Ruotsalainen is an atmosphere booster. She pilots a new happy feeling work environment in the centre of Helsinki. The space solutions at the Mothership of Work (MOW) put a smile on the face of regular as well as occasional users.
When employees of different employers work at a shared workplace, occupational safety can be very challenging. At the Helsinki-Vantaa Airport collaboration to ensure safety has been refined to perfection.
The general attitude toward addictions has changed over the years, but the stigma of shame stays. Problems arising from the abuse of intoxicating substances and habit-forming drugs cause work disability, but in practice they are no longer classified as diseases. Prevention is the best treatment, and many workplaces already have programmes for dealing with the…
The Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS), which covers 24 municipalities, has been declared a totally intoxicant-free workplace. Some years ago a comprehensive substance abuse programme was drawn up for the HUS hospital district to provide clear instructions for dealing with the substance abuse of employees.
Work that requires intensive mental processes has hidden risks that often come as a surprise. An employee’s responsibility for his or her own well-being is emphasized in independent work.
Best-Hall Ltd is an enterprise that manufactures industrial steel framework halls at Keski-Pohjanmaa in western Finland. For over ten years, the enterprise has offered physical recreation opportunities for its employees. A decrease in sickness absences is one obvious outcome of this long-term activity which has been acknowledged also nationally.
The work of social workers is rewarding, but also demanding and very loading. Threats or even violence are not uncommon. There is zero tolerance to violent behaviour at the social services department of the city of Vantaa.
An open rock quarry stretches over four hectares, 12 metres below sea level at its deepest. Jukka Kinnunen and Heikki Thil explain how a sturdy pit is excavated safely for the foundations of 20–35-story skyscrapers at the construction site in Kalasatama, Helsinki.
Managing director Henry Nieminen leads Fujitsu Finland, which employs 2600 people. The line of business is undergoing thorough change. In his role as a leader, Nieminen believes in the power of his own example and in Finnish basic values such as honesty and fairness.
