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Do I travel by plane or train from Helsinki to Vaasa for work? Mitigating climate change at the individual level is not always difficult. In many cases, it is enough to think whether you could carry out each business trip and everyday chore a bit differently. Often you can. And often an alternative way of
A well-managed and healthy work community can benefit from multi-location work in many ways,” says Juha Eskelinen, Researcher.
Five years have passed since the outbreak of the pandemic. During the pandemic, remote work became significantly more common in order to control infections, but now the situation has gradually returned to normal. But what is the new normal?
People discuss the benefits of working remotely a lot, but the office also has its good sides.
The COVID-19 pandemic hit us unexpectedly and hard, and its effects were felt all over the world. In the fight against COVID-19, Finland chose isolation tactics; closing the borders between regions, closing down restaurants and cinemas and switching to remote working were ways to combat the virus and stop its progression. The remote work phenomenon
Industrial employees want to participate in crisis management at their workplace,” says Tiina Saari, Researcher. The 5K model provides instructions.
Artificial intelligence has the opportunity to find areas for development in occupational safety by recording so-called human factors in the risk and safety information.
An ethics expert strongly recommends experimenting with different ways of using artificial intelligence, but at the same time staying alert.
Artificial intelligence or AI has penetrated working life more extensively and faster than we could have imagined a few years ago. People have many expectations, fears and questions concerning AI. It is also linked to several risks and challenges that should be discussed at the workplace. As the use of artificial intelligence increases, questions of
Generative AI applications are still very new in working life, but their use is becoming increasingly common, especially in specialist fields,” says Professor Atte Oksanen.
Artificial intelligence is already being used in many workplaces to search for and organise information. It has enabled us to develop wellbeing at work at Posti and Foibekartano and improve occupational safety at Outokumpu’s factory in Tornio.
”Young adults’ attitudes towards such matters as responsibility are very different from those of previous generations, and this is reflected in working life,” says Post-doctoral researcher Miia Grénman.
Young adults, those referred to as Generation Z, are enthusiastic and goal-oriented. This is a generation with access to unlimited information, and its representatives can set high demands for their work and employer. But is the world of work in Finland ready to offer these rising stars the kind of responsibility and challenges they are…