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What makes a Finn? And why should we care about the answers?

A recent poll asked respondents to consider what makes a Finn. In this blog, we put the answer into a larger context and consider what the answers really tell us about Finland and its openness to immigrants.

March 23, 2023March 23, 2023Living in Finland, Working in Finland

Working in the Service Sector in Finland

In this blog post, we summarize a recent report by the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health. It discusses working in the service sector in Finland.

January 26, 2023January 25, 2023Working in Finland

Employers’ attitudes toward aging workers in Finland

In this blog post, we discuss a recent survey on employers’ attitudes toward aging workers in Finland with a special focus on women. We introduce the term ‘menopause-friendly workplace’ to the DEI lexicon in Finland.

October 13, 2022October 12, 2022Working in Finland

The latest on discrimination at work in Finland

This week the Finnish government published a new report on discrimination at work in Finland. We summarize its findings.

March 3, 2022March 2, 2022Working in Finland

Diversity in the boards in Finland, take 2

This week we return to the issue of diversity in the boards of publicly-traded companies in Finland with some new information. We did some number crunching ourselves to look at gender, age, education, and nationality diversity in the boards of two different groups of publicly-traded companies in Finland.

February 7, 2022February 7, 2022Working in Finland

Gender discrimination in technical professions in Finland

In this blog post, we summarize a recent research publication by Susanna Bairoh and Sanna Putila. In it, they look at gender discrimination in technical professions in Finland. The research is based on surveys of TEK members.

January 27, 2022January 28, 2022Working in Finland

Discrimination, bullying, and violence at Finnish workplaces

In this blog, we talk about discrimination, bullying, and violence at Finnish workplaces in 2020 based on a new report by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment.

June 4, 2021January 28, 2022Working in Finland

Discussions about salary transparency in Finland heating up

In this blog we talk about increasing push for salary transparency in Finland. We especially focus on possible legislative changes that were recently reported in Finnish media.

April 15, 2021January 28, 2022Working in Finland

The Roma in Finland

April 8 is the International Roma Day, In this blog post we give a short introduction to the Roma in Finland.

April 8, 2021January 28, 2022Living in Finland

Discrimination in the Finnish job market: pay surveys to the rescue?

In this blog post we examine pay surveys as a possible tool to tackle ethnic discrimination in the Finnish job market.

August 27, 2020January 28, 2022Working in Finland

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