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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.
Work-related crime must be fought with improved cooperation tema
| Sep 2018

Work-related crime must be fought with improved cooperation

Sep 07, 2018 When crime occurs in organised ways, inspection authorities and the social partners also need to improve their cross-border cooperation. This was one of the messages when participants from the Nordics and Baltics met at an experts’ seminar in Stockholm recently.
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Working environments influence quality in the media

Sep 12, 2014 Investigative journalism and the media’s role in a democracy are the main arguments used by media companies when they ask for special treatment. There is a debate in all the Nordic countries over the media’s framework — should they be exempt from paying VAT and should digital media be subsidised?
Working hours: a hot topic for the Labour Inspection Authority director interview

Working hours: a hot topic for the Labour Inspection Authority director

Feb 11, 2011 Ingrid Finboe Svendsen's dream is to create a popular drive for a better work environment. The Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority has often been in the spotlight for dealing with cases of social dumbing, but the Authority's director wants to showcase the full scope of what the organisation does. And this is where Facebook comes in.
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Working Nation: The Mindset of the Enterprising Icelanders

May 01, 2008 The Icelanders are known for being a great working nation. No nation has a larger part of the population in employment at any one time.
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Workplace battlegrounds: Are Norwegian employees being criminalised?

May 28, 2021 How should an employer handle workplace conflicts? In Norway, it is becoming increasingly common to hire external consultants to perform a workplace investigation. The consultants often come from a legal or psychological background. Employees risk being exposed to situations resembling police interrogations – yet with no legal protection, warn researchers Bitten Nordrik and Tereza Østbø Kuldova.
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Workplace cooperation key to Nordic model's success

Dec 14, 2012 Many wonder how the Nordic countries manage so well through the economic crisis. It is often said it is because of their economic policies, yet the reality is more complex. This year marks 50 years since Norway’s employees (organised in LO) and employers (organised in NHO) began their cooperation project. Bjørn Gustavsen takes a look at how autonomy and workplace learning became central to the project:
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Workplace learning depends on what we learned in school

May 21, 2015 Our capacity to learn at work is to a large degree dependent on what we have learned in school, and working life cannot fully compensate for differences in formal schooling. That is according to a new Nordic survey which builds on the OECD’s large skills survey PIAAC. Many women in a gender segregated labour market are even loosing their numeracy skills.
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Workplaces must take the ageing workforce into account

Oct 23, 2017 When the workforce ages, workplaces face new challenges. This is particularly true for occupations where physical work makes up nearly all of the working day, according to Maria Albin, the keynote speaker at a European high-level conference on the working environment to be held in Bilbao in November.
Would-be exchange students losing out nyhet

Would-be exchange students losing out

Sep 07, 2020 International experience is important in a lot of occupations, but for many, the corona pandemic has left the dream of a colourful CV in tatters.
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