Finland Post’s Foundation for Wellbeing at Work in Operation
09.10.2006
Lisbeth Forsman-Grönholm, MD, appointed Director, Wellbeing at Work for Finland Post
Finland Post’s Foundation for Wellbeing at Work has begun operating, promoting employee working capacity and health and thus preventing loss of working capacity and premature retirement. Finland Post’s Foundation for Wellbeing at Work is the first special foundation to be established in connection with a business enterprise, focusing entirely on promoting employee wellbeing.
The Foundation’s task is to plan and steer measures aimed at maintaining the working capacity and wellbeing of Finland Post’s employees, tangible activities including research into wellbeing at work and general wellbeing, training, publishing and educational activities, the development of age management and training for retirement, and the maintenance of professional skills. The Foundation also arranges physical exercise and holiday activities, sports events, fitness tests and active family holidays.
The Employee Wellbeing Foundation will have EUR 12.6 million of initial capital, transferred to it upon the dissolution of Postin Eläkesäätiö (Finland Post Pension Fund).
A specialist in occupational health care, Lisbeth Forsman-Grönholm, MD, has been appointed Director, Wellbeing at Work, for Finland Post. Simultaneously, the previously outsourced duties of chief medical officer have been combined with the Director’s duties. Prior to joining Finland Post, Lisbeth Forsman-Grönholm held the position of chief medical officer at Mehiläinen’s Uusimaa region, having previously worked as insurance physician and occupational health care practitioner for several companies.
– As a company, Finland Post invests heavily in employee wellbeing. Our primary concern is to support immediate superiors in their activities for promoting wellbeing at work. Loss of working capacity, leading to premature retirement, presents a major challenge to Finland Post and the Employee Wellbeing Foundation can act boldly and proactively in mapping out new directions and providing new types of opportunity, says Lisbeth Forsman-Grönholm, Director, Wellbeing at Work at Finland Post.
Further information:
Lisbeth Forsman-Grönholm, Director, Wellbeing at Work, tel. +358 20 45 26644
Antti Palkinen, Advocate, Foundation for Wellbeing at Work, tel. +358 20 451 7111
