Corporate responsibility

Swedish Company Pays Employees to Form Bonds in ‘Friend Care’ Trial

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Swedish Company Pays Employees to Form Bonds in ‘Friend Care’ Trial

– credit Getty for Unsplash+ A pharmacy chain in Sweden has started running a trial across its locations with a simple aim: can a few minutes a day of free time help reduce loneliness? Sweden’s government recently commissioned a large social study about loneliness across its citizenry, and what it found made for heavy reading. … Read more

World’s Most Northern Electric Ferry Now Sailing in Frigid -13°F Temps (-25°C)

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World’s Most Northern Electric Ferry Now Sailing in Frigid -13°F Temps (-25°C)

The M/F Vargsund – credit, Finnmark county administration An all-electric passenger/car ferry in northern Norway has proven that brain-disabling cold can’t affect its service, despite running entirely on batteries. Whatever technology was encased within the batteries of our parents’ cars that would see them suffer in the cold is not what powers the M/F Vargsund, which … Read more