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"The aim of the Climate Change and Work survey conducted by the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health in cooperation with Statistics Finland was to increase understanding of climate actions at Finnish workplaces, employees' climate attitudes and actions, and views on the effects of climate change on working life. The survey was the first representative study of the entire wage-earning population on the topic carried out in Finland. 1,917 employees from all sectors of the economy responded to the survey.
Employees in Finland have a largely shared view that the earth's climate is changing, while their views on how actively they themselves should act to mitigate climate change vary more. However, many of the respondents stated that they were motivated to change their own working methods, to present ideas for increasing ecological sustainability in their own work and to learn more about ways to mitigate climate change. Workplaces and industries differ greatly in their activity to implement measures to mitigate climate change and promote the green transition. However, there are also many respondents in all industries who cannot take a stand on the climate measures of their workplace. This suggests that in many workplaces the questions have so far not been integrated as part of the strategy, or the strategy has not been communicated effectively throughout the entire organization. There is also relatively little training on climate change mitigation or the green transition.
Employees do not believe that climate change will have dramatic labour market effects. Very few report that they are worried that climate change would lead to the loss of their own job. On the other hand, more employees than this believe that climate change could create more jobs in their own field. Especially many of the most highly educated employees believe that new and interesting job opportunities will arise for themselves in this way. The overall picture provided by the survey of the effects of climate change and the progress of the green transition in Finnish workplaces is based on the views of employees. In the future, it will be important to supplement the picture with a similar type of information collected from employers' representatives, as well as with more targeted studies paying more attention to special features of individual industries or professional groups"

"This paper examines how the digital transition and the green transition together constitute a twin transition, and looks at the potential effects of this twin transition on working life. The twin transition is considered a comprehensive socio-technical change, which brings opportunities to develop the quality of work and working life. The paper also presents various ways in which working life research can increase our understanding of the transition and contribute to it.
Besides opportunities, the paper also highlights tensions and contradictions regarding the twin transition. These arise, on the one hand, from the fact that the transition concerns a large group of actors who may have intersecting, different and divergent goals and interests. On the other hand, the relationship between the development of digital information technology and the green transition is also tense and contradictory.
While it is possible to promote the green transition with the help of artificial intelligence and other technologies, technological development can have significant side effects that increase the consumption of energy and natural resources.
According to forecasts, the overall effects of the twin transition on employment at the level of the national economy are expected to be moderate, and rather more positive than negative. However, the positive and negative effects on employment can impact different industries, different regions, different occupations and different organizations in very different ways. The twin transition will probably further accelerate the everincreasing growth in demand for professionals. The infrastructure investments required by the transition will likely also increase the demand for labour especially in manufacturing, construction and various maintenance activities.
The twin transition is not only about strengthening ecological sustainability by utilizing new technological possibilities, but also involves an important social dimension. The social dimension particularly concerns different stakeholder groups' opportunities to participate in the transition and how just the effects of the transition are perceived to be in working life and in society at large. The paper highlights the themes of working life research, with an additional focus on how research can contribute to the implementation of the twin transition in a socially sustainable way."

"This article examines means to improve the ability of work organization development programmes to create and disseminate good practices. The article states that there is a growing need for strategies that understand good practices more as generative ideas than ‘ready-made' objects, and in which the focus of attention is on the creation of interactive contexts between various players already at the project planning and implementation stage. The ‘modules' of the Norwegian Enterprise Development 2000 Programme (1994–2001) and the ‘network projects' and ‘learning networks' of the Finnish Workplace Development Programme (1996–2009) are used as examples of the principles of the new strategy in practice."

"This article provides an analysis of strategies aimed to promote workplace innovation in nine national and regional policy contexts in the last few years. Its conceptual objective is to elaborate a model, developed by Naschold, and assess its usability in the analysis of contemporary workplace development strategies. The empirical objective of this article is to assess strengths and weaknesses of the strategies and similarities and differences between them by means of the model. The comparison results in a map of profiles of the nine strategies. The policy objective of this article is to raise issues that can be considered crucial for promoting learning across national borders in workplace development. The study was implemented between 2005 and 2008 as part of the EU-funded WORK-IN-NET project (2004—9)."

"This report aim to go behind narratives of digitalization as a uniform force of disruption, job destruction and revolutionary change at work, and convey a nuanced picture of digitalization played out at ordinary Nordic workplaces in traditional sectors of work. The report is explorative and the findings preliminary, but the picture emerging is nevertheless sobering. Findings show how digitalization in important sectors of Nordic labour markets are marked by gradual adaptation rather than paradigmatic, disruptive change. The connection between digital technologies and the organization of work emerges as a two-way relationship where institutions and politics still matter. Our empirical observations also suggest that the actors in the Nordic model of work are able to continue to influence this relationship in ways that appear to be compatible with the modus operandi of the model."

"This article examines the pattern of occupational change in Finland between 2013 and 2018 in light of hypotheses derived from skill- and routine-biased technological change arguments. As extensions to mainstream studies on occupational change, two alternative means of classifying occupations by skill level are used, and data from Statistics Finland's Quality of Work Survey are combined with data from the Finnish Labour Force Survey. The analysis reveals a pattern of skill-biased change and indications of a digital divide between high-skilled and other occupations with no signs of job polarization. Reasons for country-wide differences in occupational change patterns and the implications of differences in the means of classifying occupations for the results are discussed with suggestions of topics for further studies."