Jatkoilla / After work

Work loneliness has become a broad societal challenge today. One in five working-age Finns and one in three young adults experience loneliness at work. According to the 2026 loneliness barometer conducted by the Finnish Red Cross, experiences of loneliness have increased since 2025, as 65% of respondents reported feeling lonely at least sometimes. Loneliness thus […]

The past couple of years in the JATKOT group have involved not only active research but also the dissemination of research knowledge. The most typical way to spread research findings – in the university context – is naturally through teaching. The traditional idea in universities has been, and still is, that researchers also teach and […]

The year 2026 has started with great enthusiasm in the JATKOT research group. Before Christmas, we received some exciting funding news: the Kone Foundation grant for the EEPO (Ethical Police) project and the Work Environment Fund funding for research on workplace pedagogy, innovation, and wellbeing (TYSTI). Our researchers also secured personal grants and paid doctoral […]

How are you, how are you doing? It is easy to respond to these questions with something vague, so that the conversation can then move on. But how are you really doing? This can even be an uncomfortable question, because it offers an opportunity to pause and reflect on who you are, what you need, […]

The 21st European Conference on Management, Leadership and Governance took place on 13–14 November at the CESI Engineering School campus in Paris-Nanterre. The event brought together timely discussions on leadership, showcasing research across a wide spectrum – from digitalisation and sustainability to cross-cultural collaboration. A shared underlying question was how organisations and leaders can act […]

Working life is changing perhaps faster than ever before, requiring continuous learning and the updating of skills. At its best, learning, development, creating new things, and ideation are rewarding, motivating, and meaningful. Through the exchange of ideas, observations, and experiences in workplace collaboration, insights emerge that advance the skills of both individual employees and entire […]

Interculturalism is today’s workplace reality. Work teams are increasingly composed of professionals with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and customers likewise come from many different backgrounds in Finland. This offers vast opportunities: multicultural teams can generate new perspectives, creativity, and innovations. They also help to understand customers better and meet their varied needs. At the same […]

Creative self-image is a belief about the importance that an individual assigns to their creativity in relation to the broader sense of self. In other words, the creative self-image is about how important it is to an individual to be creative in different areas of their lives, at work and in the free time. Already […]

Managing employees’ learning takes place in everyday work and is therefore part of modern supervisory work. It requires supervisors to be actively present and engaged in employees’ daily problem-solving and learning situations. Leading learning combines the supervisor’s role as a coach, consideration of the motivational factors underlying learning, and learning as a process at both […]

My research on the working life experiences of women diagnosed with ADHD began earlier this year and took off quite rapidly. Nina Venhe, a communications specialist at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Eastern Finland, wrote an online article about the study, which was widely shared in various Facebook groups. The interest in participating […]