It’s a Friday afternoon in November. I’m sitting in a train from Tampere and the Nordic Working Life Conference towards Turku and home. I’m playing Kuningasidea when their lyrics “I’m balanced when I’m unbalanced enough…” (Orig: “Oon balanssis kun mull o sopivasti epätasapainoo…”) have me recall the days’ conversations about the uncertainty of working life … Continued
SWiPE Researchers Laura Seppänen from the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health writes abour crowdsourcing and unconventional work in her Unelmahautomo -blogpost (in Finnish): “Mitä yhteistä on Suomen vaeltavilla ammattilaisilla ja Brasilian köyhillä kotiäideillä”.
Beyond Interpretivism? New Encounters with Technology and Organisation 9 – 10 December 2016, Dublin, Ireland Working Conference Technology and Organisation (ifip WG8.2 in Dublin, December 9-10, 2016) focuses on new kinds of research encounters with technology and organization. Leading scholars of the field, Karin Knorr-Cetina (Unversity of Chicago), Wanda Orlikowski (MIT) and Tim Ingold (University … Continued
Satu Aaltonen is a project researcher at the Entrepreneurship Unit, Turku School of Economics at the University of Turku. She holds a Masters in Social Sciences and is active in teaching. Satu Aaltonen contributes culture and society perspectives to work research to the SWiPE project. Within SWiPE Satu concentrates principally on questions of migrant integration … Continued
Working Conference Technology and Organisation (ifip WG8.2 in Dublin, December 9-10, 2016) focuses on new kinds of research encounters with technology and organization. Leading scholars of the field, Karin Knorr-Cetina (Unversity of Chicago), Wanda Orlikowski (MIT) and Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen) attend the conference. Twelve articles have been chosen for presentation, among them an … Continued
Things didn’t quite go to plan recently as I was opening a seminar; I began by asking “who here is an employee – would you raise your hands? Then, I asked who here imagines themselves to be developers or managers?” What I got in return to this was a befuddled silence… a moment later a … Continued
Eveliina Saari is a senior Researcher at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health and is a Docent of adult education specialising in organisational learning and developmental evaluation at the University of Jyväskylä. She is also programme director for the Strategic Research Council programmes: Skilled Workers – Successful Labour Markets and Health, Wellbeing and Lifestyles. In … Continued
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