Working Life Barometer in the Baltic Countries 2002 (pdf) - mol.fi

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Mean work intensity values
(Scale of variation: 1= work intensity absolutely too high – 5 = work intensity
absolutely too low)
LATVIA ESTONIA LITHUANIA
Private sector
-male 2.8 2.8 2.6
-female 2.6 2.9 2.6
-total 2.7 2.9 2.6
Public sector
-male 2.7 3.1 2.8
-female 2.7 2.8 2.7
-total 2.7 2.9 2.8
All
-male 2.7 2.9 2.7
-female 2.6 2.9 2.7
-total 2.7 2.9 2.7
CHANGE IN WORK TEMPO AT THE WORKPLACE
Working people were also asked, besides evaluating the intensity of their own
work, to give a more general assessment of how the working tempo at the respondent's
workplace has changed during the year preceding the survey. The
responses were very uniform: in all the Baltic countries, slightly under half of
the workers were of the opinion that some increase in the work tempo had
been noticeable at their workplace. However, only a few more than one in ten
respondents (11-13 %) had experienced a very great tightening of the working
pace. In general, therefore, there has been a gradual acceleration in the tempo
of work at the workplace, or else there has been no change at all. Only a fairly
small proportion (6-9 %) of the working people in the Baltic nations said that
the working pace at their workplace had become more relaxed than before.
For ten years now, the change in work tempo at the workplace has been enquired
about annually in the Finnish Work Life Barometer. The results for
Finland, too, tell the same story as above: the working pace at the workplaces
has typically accelerated a little, or else there has not been any change at all.
Relaxation of the working tempo has been rare. Compared with the Baltic
countries, the pace of work at Finnish workplaces has tightened a little more.