Keyword: Working life
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Pamela Spokes
Designing better workdays
Workdays can easily be so busy that you end up eating lunch at your desk while still trying to type emails. All the while knowing you'll need to leave work exactly on time because your child has to get to football practice, and remembering you’ve already been late twice. The rising stress doesn’t just affect your workday – it spills over into how you sleep, how you interact with your family, and your overall health. That’s why designing better workdays in 2026 is just as important as making sure you’re getting enough protein.
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Heini Maisala-McDonnell, Liisa Nuutinen
Metropolia Minno® project resulted in innovations for age-friendly working life in health care and social services
SAFE - Solutions for Age-Friendly Employer - project is an EU project funded by Interreg Central Baltic. The project became a client of Metropolia Minno®, and gained from future professionals' perspectives and innovation. Metropolia students explored age-friendly practices that support the work ability of older employees in health care and social services, while also benefitting employees of all ages.
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Eunice Siame-Moono, Pamela Spokes, Juha Järvinen
Episode 5: Innovation in Care from the Frontlines – A Conversation with Eunice Siame-Moono
In this episode, we are talking to Eunice Siame-Moono about using innovation tools and methods in healthcare and how new students can look for ways to innovate in their own future careers. She is a student at Metropolia on the cusp of graduating from the Nursing programme with a degree in Engineering and an MBA with aspirations to continue working in healthcare technology of the future.
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Pamela Spokes
Empowering staff to build better services in Higher Education
Many university staff assume that design isn’t “their thing” – but design is not only about products or visuals.