About CHILL

The work package is responsible for implementing the project in accordance with the project plan, addressing the scientific, administrative, and participant collaboration objectives. This also includes project-related communication with Business Finland.

The work package enhances understanding of the Innovation Apex, the organization's collaborative and innovative strategic core committed to a hybrid work model enabled by new technologies. It addresses research questions related to a work culture that fosters community, learning, and innovation, bottom-up innovation, and work well-being in hybrid work. The work package also holds overall responsibility for the project's international research collaboration.

The work package addresses the research question concerning the development of supervisory work in multi-location and digitalizing work environments, and provides information to support other research questions. It generates insights into how leadership is constructed in physical, digital, and informal spaces, which structures support or hinder supervisory work, and what new practices and supervisory roles emerge and are needed in the everyday life of hybrid work.

The work package is responsible for generating information on the research question related to technological and workspace solutions required for successful hybrid work, and provides data to support other research questions. The information produced by the work package concerns new ways of utilizing technology to address interaction challenges in remote encounters, as well as workspace solutions that combine the functional, social, and cultural requirements of future offices.

The work package is responsible for organizing learning network events where network members share their ideas, experiences, and lessons learned. The work package includes workshops and cluster meetings. Members present their own solutions at the events, become familiar with and learn from others' solutions, and engage in discussions about research findings and their experiences with hybrid work.

The work package is responsible for generating insightful information on alternative development paths for the future of work. In the first phase, a comprehensive literature review is conducted, resulting in a referenced database of essential alternative development paths in working life. In the second phase, an expert process is implemented, where selected arguments are assessed and their potential consequences are explored. The outputs are used to support and challenge other work packages as well.

The work package is responsible for regularly communicating the information produced by the project to stakeholders and ensuring its societal relevance. The project's key stakeholders include CEOs, business and HR managers, leaders of employer organizations and trade unions, work life experts, as well as political and public organization decision-makers.