Home offices and activity-based workplaces are key features of the new working life. These solutions can provide greater freedom and a better balance between work and leisure, but they also present challenges for collaboration and the work environment, according to Nordic researchers.
Employers and authorities need to update their understanding of what is needed in the future labour market. It’s not about what they think is needed today, but about what will be needed tomorrow.
How are remote labour markets impacted by demographic shifts, growing technological needs, climate change, and globalisation? A Nordic research project aims to find out how such global megatrends have local consequences.
Remote and flexible working arrangements became common during the pandemic. But how well does it really work? A Nordic-Baltic research project is investigating the consequences of the new working life for managers and employees.
Remote work and hybrid workplaces became common during the pandemic. NordForsk has now awarded funding for five projects that will investigate how these and other developments affect future working life.
Sexual harassment is a severe workplace issue that threatens employees’ health and wellbeing. This project will increase theoretical and empirical knowledge on sexual harassment through academic and practitioner-based efforts with working life partners, specifically within the police in Norway, Sweden and Iceland.
Project aiming to increase understanding of the opportunities and challenges employees and leaders encounter in remote and flexible work settings to secure work-related health and work performance.
Project aiming at exploring how local labour markets in the Nordic Region face the opportunities and challenges related to the global megatrends in general, and the green transition in particular.
