Professor Anne Kovalainen, head of the SWiPE Consortium spoke at the New Work Factory – Impact Seminar on the 30th of November held in Kulttuurikeskus Korjaamo in Helsinki. Professor Kovalainen adressed the seminar on the topic “Digitalisation as a social phenomenon and source of renewal”. The seminar touched upon themes ranging from Industrie 4.0, Digitalisation, … Continued
The Working Life 2020 seminar on the 8th of November looked at questions ranging from what we know – and don’t know – about platform economy and crowdsourced work phenomena, how work and working life are changing, what effects these shifts might have on our society, and finally, how Finland ought to respond. The platform … Continued
From time of Schumpeter, continuing innovation activity has been accepted as one of the foundation stones of economic growth and societal wellbeing. Technological development streamlines our practices and creates new products, services and experiences that improve our quality of life. According to Matti Pohjola, progress in information and communications technology in the 2000’s alone accounts … Continued
Antti-Jussi Tahvanainen is a research director at ETLA the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy. He has many years of experience in research projects both at home and abroad and has taught business model design in the Aalto University entrepreneurship programme. He is also an entrepreneur and an executive of a charged with analysing the … Continued
Producer Day 2016 is a national practitioner event for producers in arts and culture. The event is organised on the 14th of November at the National Museum in Helsinki. The theme of the event is the future of work from the perspective of the self-employed. Head of the SWiPE-Consortium, Professor Anne Kovalainen, will be speaking … Continued
Digital platforms, platform economy, crowdsourcing, uberisation… what??!! As an occupational health researcher, I’ve long studied working conditions, positive attitudes and wellbeing in different, but more or less traditional, occupations such as teaching, dental care, the fire service and the judiciary, as well as in organisations such as schools, day-care centres, factories and even parishes. The … Continued
Time 15.11.2016 at 8:30 to 13:15 Place Hotel Scandic Marski, Mannerheimintie 10, 00100, Helsinki Invitation PDF here Registration By 14.11 here Finnish competitiveness is grounded in effective, profitable and job-creating employers. In addition to the government programme and core policy, the Työelämä 2020 (Working life 2020) project challenges employers to raise their game by … Continued
Working time is an important concept that functions as a measure of economic value both for employees and employers. The employee is paid for the work they do while the employer wishes to evaluate how much time was used to do the work, as that is tied to the resources they need. Working time is … Continued
Jari Hakanen is a Research Professor at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health and is docent of social psychology at the University of Helsinki. He has previously worked as a research director at the University of Helsinki researcher collegium and as a researcher at STAKES (the National Institute for Health and Welfare). Jari also has … Continued
Annina Ropponen is a Senior Researcher at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health. She is also a Docent of public health at the University of Helsinki. She has previously held posts as a visiting researcher at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and as an Assistant Professor at the University of Kuopio. Annina Ropponen has been a … Continued