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Many Norwegian nurses are planning their escape News
| Corona

Many Norwegian nurses are planning their escape

Sep 08, 2021 Heavy workloads, poor working conditions, low pay and a feeling of not being appreciated means seven in ten nurses in Norway have considered leaving over the past 12 months.
Gathering around the kitchen table News
| Corona

Gathering around the kitchen table

Sep 08, 2021 The huge increase in remote work during the pandemic became a challenge for families where several people needed a workplace or place to study at home. Surprisingly, the length of people’s ordinary commute and the size of their homes are not factors that impact much on their desire to work from home. Something else means much more.
Analysis
| Corona

Post-Corona recovery more uneven than the crisis itself

Jun 29, 2021 How are the Nordic labour markets doing as the Corona pandemic is hopefully coming to an end? Will it be followed by a strong recovery or will companies that have been kept going with state support now face closure?
Three Swedish stories of service during the pandemic tema
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Three Swedish stories of service during the pandemic

Jun 29, 2021 To be of service. A task with varying content depending on the business. A common thread these days: How to best get through the pandemic. In Höganäs it happened on a local as well as on an international level.
Covid threat to Nordic “julebord” tradition and restaurant survival News
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Covid threat to Nordic “julebord” tradition and restaurant survival

Dec 10, 2020 Julebord is a Christmas office party on steroids and a major tradition in Norway and Denmark. This season is already a crisis for restaurants and food providers say enterprise confederations. But at least there will probably be fewer #metoo situations.
Editorial
| Corona

A Nordic state of emergency

Apr 15, 2020 The corona epidemic has closed borders in the Nordic region and the rest of the world. In most countries governments have increased their powers and citizenship has become more important, while personal freedom has been restrained.
National decisions have major consequences for border regions tema
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National decisions have major consequences for border regions

Apr 15, 2020 Activate the networks, develop the dialogues, identify the updates. These are necessary and urgent tasks for the Nordic border region information services, thrown up by the corona crisis. Öresunddirekt in Malmö remains closed to visitors. Behind doors, there is plenty of action.
The Öresund cooperation was set to expand – then corona hit tema
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The Öresund cooperation was set to expand – then corona hit

Apr 15, 2020 Billions of kroner. That is the estimated annual benefit for Denmark and Sweden resulting from a fully integrated labour market across Öresund. Nine focus areas have been identified and presented, ready for action as soon as the corona crisis ends.
Freedom of movement sacrified to protect Finnish population tema
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Freedom of movement sacrified to protect Finnish population

Apr 15, 2020 Rapid measures and tough restrictions characterised the first Finnish reactions to the corona pandemic. As the only Nordic country it locked down an entire region, which included the capital city, from the rest of Finland.
Corona crisis drives up Nordic unemployment tema
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Corona crisis drives up Nordic unemployment

Apr 15, 2020 Unemployment has risen dramatically across the Nordics since the emergence of the coronavirus. The countries have chosen different ways of handling the situation, however, based on different labour market models, measures imposed and the shape of the labour market.
Nordic labour market crisis: Professor sees hope tema
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Nordic labour market crisis: Professor sees hope

Apr 15, 2020 The coronavirus creates a crisis for Nordic businesses and workers, but hope too of a more social and green labour market and society, argues Henning Jørgensen, Professor of labour market policy and co-author of a new book.
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A sudden stop for Nordjobb as mobility became a dirty word

Apr 15, 2020 For 35 years, Nordjobb has found work for 25,000 Nordic youths who have wanted to try working in a different Nordic country. This year nearly all jobs have been cancelled due to the corona crisis.
Everyone at the Nordic House works from home tema
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Everyone at the Nordic House works from home

Apr 15, 2020 There were doubts at first at the Nordic House in Copenhagen as the corona epidemic became a reality. Should staff be sent home or not? On the Danish Prime Minister’s orders, all 130 staff have been working from home since 11 March. One of them is Anna Rosenberg, who lives in Malmö.
Nordic students in Europe fall victim to physical land borders tema
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Nordic students in Europe fall victim to physical land borders

Apr 06, 2020 An entire generation Nordic students have grown up in a borderless Europe. Thousands are studying in other European countries. Most went back home in March as old borders started being reinstated because of the coronavirus.
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