People first – always

Our guiding principle is “People first”. People are at the heart of everything we do; both our customers, who are the purpose of what we do, and our employees, who are the creators of our success.

We build our services for people and bring the technical expertise of our experts to them. Although we are sometimes charmed by new technology, we will always remember that it is only a tool that must not complicate the lives of its users, quite the contrary.

 

A workplace where everyone can feel comfortable

Our work community is based on trust and respect for others. All our activities are guided by our ways of working:
• Trust enables freedom
• Fair equality
• Together we are more
• Courage to do things
• Growth in many directions

It is important for our employees to be able to do meaningful work every day. In our annual personnel surveys, the most important factors for job satisfaction are rewarding work tasks, a strong team spirit, fair pay and a healthy worklife balance. In an expert organisation like Loihde, other prominent aspects include the opportunities for personal and competence development and the chance to influence one’s own work. According to our personnel, we have been successful in this area. We continuously develop factors enabling successful work performances as well as the personnel’s opportunities to influence the content of their work. In 2021, we launched a new Loihde Leader coaching programme for managers and supervisors.

We follow the development of job satisfaction with pulse surveys. Their importance has increased further as the number of informal interactions has decreased due to remote work. Pulse surveys provide not only an overview of personnel satisfaction, but also early indications of challenges in coping at work.

Competence is our most important resource, and its continuous development is essential both for maintaining our competitiveness and for the motivation and satisfaction of our personnel. Our work community consists of a group of experts who have a strong desire to continuously develop their own expertise. Our competence develops through, e.g. on-the-job training, our own training courses and external training programmes, such as those leading to partner certifications. Loihde also encourages independent learning and pays some of the related costs.

We are all equal.

Loihde wants to be an equal workplace for everyone. In order to prevent discrimination and ensure equal treatment, the company has an equality and non-discrimination plan, which was last updated in the summer of 2021. Our goal is to ensure that Loihde implements genuinely non-discriminatory procedures in recruitment, career advancement, distribution of duties, deciding on pay and benefits, training opportunities, and work community development. This objective is primarily supported by the training of supervisors. In addition, in internal communication, we highlight topics related to equality, diversity and unconscious discrimination.

Let’s take care of each other.

Loihde has addressed the challenges of coping at work by implementing an early caring model and by providing low-threshold conversational therapy in cooperation with occupational health. In 2022, we introduced a series of sessions for the entire personnel on the well-being of the body and the mind. In the first session in March 2022, an expert from MIELI Mental Health Finland answered questions related to concerns caused by the war in Ukraine, and later on we have learned about the impact that sleep has on our well-being, among other things.