Study title

The annual survey studied employee opinion on the quality of working life in Finland. Main themes included organisation of work, development opportunities and flexibility, wages, workplace bullying, capacity to work, and changes in working life. Questions in the barometer have mainly remained the same each year. For the 2014 collection round, new questions were added about ideas on the development of the workplace, flexible working time, method of agreeing on the wage and social media. Questions about management and leadership were not included this time. First, the respondents were asked how many years they had worked for the employer they were working for at the time, whether they were in a management position, and how many persons worked at the workplace. Changes in the number of staff, distribution of work and tasks, and implementation of new working methods and systems over the past 12 months were charted. Psychosocial working environment was charted with questions about openness, encouragement and equality in the workplace, job stability, and opportunities for employees to develop and apply new ideas. Further questions covered measures taken to improve health of employees, safety of work environment, and skills of employees. Discrimination at work based on ethnic group, age, gender and type of job contract was explored. Incidents of bullying, harassment and violence at work were surveyed. Next set of questions investigated the respondents' membership in a trade union or professional association, flexible working time arrangements at the workplace, pay and bonus systems, and satisfaction with pay level. The respondents' participation in job-related training and development of the workplace was investigated. Use of social media, such as Facebook, Twitter and blogs, in the performance of work tasks was charted. Autonomy at work was charted by asking about influence over own work tasks and working pace, over the distribution of work in the workplace, and about...