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"Part-time is a result of lacking equality” tema

"Part-time is a result of lacking equality”

Mar 07, 2011 The high number of involuntary part-timers is a result of how we value women's work, says Annelie Nordström, chairwoman at Kommunal, the Swedish Municipal Workers’ Union. The union has been fighting for the right to full-time employment for 30 years. It's been an uphill battle, and since the economic crisis hit in 2009 it's been even harder.
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Gender equality in the Nordic region - vision or reality?

Mar 07, 2011 Nordic countries a leaders in international gender equality surveys. Is reality as splendid as the vision of gender equality in the Nordic region? Nordic Labour Journal has examined the past 40 years of female representation in governments, trade unions, employers organisations and other symbolically important positions. Are women taking over power?
Work without boundaries can severely increase number of burnouts tema

Work without boundaries can severely increase number of burnouts

Feb 11, 2011 The borderline between work and leisure time is becoming fuzzy. It's getting increasingly difficult to achieve the old dream of eight hours' work, eight hours' off and eight hours' sleep when the smartphone wants your attention, colleagues work in other timezones and you need to work a night shift to get through your inbox.
Rocketing Finnish IT business: less bureaucracy saves our spare time tema

Rocketing Finnish IT business: less bureaucracy saves our spare time

Feb 11, 2011 Today's software businesses face demands for a shorter journey from idea to product and expectations of higher returns of investments. Finnish company Houston Inc. claims this can still be achieved with a 7.5 hour working day and a work tempo which won't lead to burnouts.
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Online culture's effect on work-life balance

Feb 11, 2011 A working life without boundaries puts new demands on management, employers and unions. They all need to prevent workers slaving away until they drop.
Racing against nature tema

Racing against nature

Feb 09, 2011 For two months every year John Johansen (45) works seven days a week, 14 hours a day. He'll drive 2,600 kilometres and count some 120,000 soon-to-be-born sheep. "I start in Rogaland on 12 January, then I drive to East-Norway and then north from there. I finish in Vardø on 14 March. By then I'll have performed ultrasound scans on some 50,000 sheep."
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Portable working hours

Feb 09, 2011 One in three Norwegian workers are contacted by work in their spare time once every week or more. Do we slave away until we drop because we have email on our smartphones, our home office comes with us on holiday and you and your job compete to have more friends on Facebook and Twitter? When the time for restitution ends up in a grey zone between work and leisure time, what does that do to us?
Welfare model put to the test tema

Welfare model put to the test

Sep 07, 2011 The Nordic countries worked their way through the 2008 financial crisis. The welfare model largely shared by the five countries proved effective. Now the world economy is on shaky ground yet again. Can the Nordic model still be a third way between the more brutal Anglo-Saxon model and the lack of state financial control seen in many Mediterranean countries?
Equality driver of Iceland’s success tema

Equality driver of Iceland’s success

Sep 07, 2011 Higher taxes for those who have the most, protection of the poor and debt relief to businesses and households - all part of the recipe to get a bankrupt state back on track according to the Icelandic experience. You also need a proper post-party tidy-up, get the economy in balance and prevent criminal activity from repeating itself.
An election coloured by crisis tema

An election coloured by crisis

Sep 07, 2011 Which politicians can best guide Denmark through the current economic crisis, where more and more Danes fear going bust or end up unemployed? That is the deciding question in the Danish elections this month.
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