Case Study# 3 – Finland (Helsinki and South Savo Region)

Finland Multilocal Living🏠

Significance of this area for remote work

With advances in technology and flexible remote work, multilocal living is seen as a key way to revitalize declining rural areas. In Finland, temporary residents from multilocal living can offset or even reverse rural population loss. Research also links nature exposure to improved wellbeing.

Alongside the shared EU goal of understanding remote work impacts, the Finnish case focuses on how multilocal living affects both wellbeing and regional development. In South Savo, where the population fell from 163,000 in 1990 to 132,000, up to 100,000 temporary residents now play a vital role in supporting the local economy and communities.

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As in the other case studies, The Finnish case study starts by an employer survey. UH will collect data from 1000 Finnish companies about their experience with and attitudes towards remote work arrangements.

Second, UH will organize a survey with at least 1000 employees to explore their experience, preferences, attitudes towards remote work and its impacts on work-life balance, productivity and wellbeing. Further, to gain insights how remote work and multilocal living lifestyle affects daily time use and travel behaviour smartphone based MOTUS time use diary application with a GPS tracking will be used. We aim to recruit at least 400 volunteered employees to participate in the MOTUS application study. For the third data collection step, face-to-face interviews with at least 30 employees are conducted to obtain individual insights on the relation between remote work and household arrangements. In all employee data collection steps, we target to overrepresent participants residing in South-Savo region in the sample (a nested case-study).

Finally, based on insights from the employer and employee survey, a 4-step transport forecasting model for the Finnish case (South-Savo and Helsinki Metropolitan Area) will be amended. It allows studying the impact of future scenarios of remote work and multilocal lifestyle on mobility, land use, and the environment.

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