Tag Archive for: meaningful work

Let Their Lives Flourish – Essentials Of Enterprise Gamification

Our CEO and gamification guru Jukka Koskenkanto talked about…

Giving the Employees’ the Right to Telework 2015 – The Best Christmas Present?

At Microsoft Finland, we’ve been teleworking for a few years already using our so-called “being present” working model, which means that goals guide our work and it doesn't matter where or when we work. Many people, actually more people than the capacity of the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, have visited our Meeting Point in Keilaranta, Espoo, to find out, how we use modern technology, new spaces, and management to achieve challenging goals, yet at the same time keep job satisfaction high. During this inspiring and compelling journey we’ve had to think over the very fundamentals of work.

Leader Plays a Big Role in Meaningful Volunteer Work

Four years ago I was studying in Santiago, Chile. During my studies, I got to know a few really great people also from El Salvador, which is a small, beautiful developing country in Central America. A year later, when back in Finland, I invited them to join my birthday party. Of course they couldn't travel across the world, but this invitation led to something bigger.

Steps to Make Work at Cloudriven More Meaningful

As we tend to do at Cloudriven, we analyzed what kind of results we’d achieved in spring and what kind of actions were taken to reach the results. Based on the analysis, we decided what we're going to focus on this fall and made some changes to our management system.