The aim of the study was to get a deeper understanding of how social workers at the welfare Office think and act when it comes to methadone or buprenorphine treatment. What role does the welfare Office take when it comes to methadone- or buprenorphine treatment, what does the welfare Office think about this form of treatment, what possibilities does the welfare Office have when it comes to decide the selection to this kind of treatment and what consideration does the welfare Office take to the separate individuals demands when it comes to methadone- or buprenorphine treatment. The study is done in the perspective of society as a social construction. The method that was used was qualitative interviews with professionals at the welfare Office and professionals at the reception of methadone- and buprenorphine treatment. The result of the study is that the attitude towards methadone- and buprenorphine treatment is complicated and the opinions are partly divided..

Aim:The aim of the study was to describe the experience of working environment in open plan Office within IT- sector.Background:Previously was the most common Office model cell Office, open plan Office is now the most common. A good working environment in theise two Office types needs different attributes. A theory to explain relationship between health and unhealth is Karasek and Theorells demand- control- supportmodel.Method:A qualitative interview study was performed to gain a deeper understanding of the experience of working in open plan Office within IT- sector. Ten informants from two different organizations were chosen. The result has been analyzed with qualitative content analysis.Results:The analyses resulted in three themes and six sub-themes.

Syftet med arbetet har varit att undersöka om en viss arkitektur kan användas för att underlätta utvecklingen av ett Back Office-system till ett befintligt och komplext verksamhetssystem.För att gränsa av arbetet och hitta de delar som var intressanta att fokusera på genomfördes intervjuer med tre olika personer som hade olika syn på ett Back Office-system genom sin yrkesroll. Intervjuerna resulterade i ett antal önskemål för vad man ville uppnå med ett Back Office-system.Arbetet resulterade i en arkitektur som kan användas för att underlätta utvecklingen av ett Back Office-system till det befintliga verksamhetssystemet samt till verksamhetssystemet självt. Arkitekturen har utvärderats genom att man först ställde en mängd krav på den och sedan studerade hur den klarade av en mängd nya krav som delvis var relaterade till de gamla kraven.Alla tester som gjorts visar på att arkitekturen är väl designad och lätt att underhålla samt att den kommer underlätta den fortsatta utvecklingen av verksamhetssystemet och dess Back Office-system..

The main purpose of this master thesis is to study the information support by the head Office of the Swedish social insurance Office to its administrators. The thesis only focuses on information that concerns laws, regulations and instructions. The study is based on an interview with the head of the division of law at the social insurance head Office and a questionnaire answered by administrators in four different counties. The purpose with the interview was to find out about the information strategy of the head Office and in the questionnaire the administrators could describe their opinion of their information support. Our special interest was the information channels and how the administrators were able to absorb the essential information.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between physical activity and perceived stress, energy and musculoskeletal disorders among Office-workers and warehouse-workers and also to see if there were any differences depending on work-place and gender. The method that was used to collect data was three different validated questionnaires that measured stress and energy (the Stress-Energy questionnaire), musculoskeletal disorders (intensity and localization of pain, a Pain Drawing questionnaire with a VAS-scale) and physical activity (IPAQ ? the short version). Eighty-eight workers participated in the study. Forty-seven of them were Office-workers and forty-one were warehouse-workers.

Employers are becoming more and more aware of that the internal communication between employees is the reason why organizations are being held alive and also what impact the Office environment has on employees work performances and their communication. The aim of our study was to gain an understanding of what significance an Office's spatial design has for the communication between employees and managers in the workplace. We have through qualitative interviews with managers and employees from different business cases gotten a perception of their ways of communicating with each other. The results showed that employees and leaders thought that they shared the same picture of what their communication was like in reality, how they thought their ways of marking their territory in the Office was understood and respected and what their opinions and expectations of how the communication between them and their leaders should be like. These results were then analyzed in consideration with relevant theory and previous research in the disciplines of Office environment and communication studies.The main conclusions that have been drawn from the analysis are that the work environment's design can be both positive and negative at the same time and that what should be focused on is the leaders' communication. The leaders and their employees have to communicate more about their communication between them so thart misunderstandings can be avoided in the Office environment - and therefore become more effective..

The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between physical activity and perceived stress, energy and musculoskeletal disorders among Office-workers and warehouse-workers and also to see if there were any differences depending on work-place and gender. The method that was used to collect data was three different validated questionnaires that measured stress and energy (the Stress-Energy questionnaire), musculoskeletal disorders (intensity and localization of pain, a Pain Drawing questionnaire with a VAS-scale) and physical activity (IPAQ ? the short version). Eighty-eight workers participated in the study. Forty-seven of them were Office-workers and forty-one were warehouse-workers.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between physical activity and perceived stress, energy and musculoskeletal disorders among Office-workers and warehouse-workers and also to see if there were any differences depending on work-place and gender. The method that was used to collect data was three different validated questionnaires that measured stress and energy (the Stress-Energy questionnaire), musculoskeletal disorders (intensity and localization of pain, a Pain Drawing questionnaire with a VAS-scale) and physical activity (IPAQ ? the short version). Eighty-eight workers participated in the study. Forty-seven of them were Office-workers and forty-one were warehouse-workers.

Title: future demands for Office spaceLevel: Final assignment for Bachelor Degree in Facility ManagementAuthor: Rickard Blomkvist & Nils WilanderSupervisor: Lars SteinerDate: 2012-05Aim:  to examine how property owners can develop their properties to suit modern business needs and requirements of the Office space they rent. Although the property owners should reason for their commercial properties will be attractive to the market. Investigate how a modern Office looks like and in what are the trends?Issues used:What should property owners do to meet the new requirements of modern businesses place on the premises?How does the new work in the companies they use their premises?What is a good Office today? Method: we used qualitative interviews to get answers to the issues.Conclusion: Today's Office buildings have to be flexible so they can be adapted to the current tenant. Market mobility is high and the property owner must be prepared for tenants leaving.

TitleThe communicative Office ? A study of the effects that Activity based Offices has on internal communication.      Authors                             Carl Varli, Jonas Eklund and Petter Göransson Course                              Business administration III ? Organization ? Bachelor? thesis Tutor                                 Olle Duhlin           Examiner                          Mikael Lundgren Background                      The prime focus of activity based Office designs are the though of choosing your workplace along with your work task, instead of the other way around. This means that you do not longer have a set workstation of your own, you move around according to where to your current work will be best performed.  Problem                           We want to explore how the communication within a company?s departments has been affected by the introduction of an activity-based Office design.Purpose                             The purpose of this study was to get an understanding of how this Office design could effect the communication within companies that uses it. Further more, we wanted to study the effects that this kind of Office would have on the communication within a department.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between physical activity and perceived stress, energy and musculoskeletal disorders among Office-workers and warehouse-workers and also to see if there were any differences depending on work-place and gender. The method that was used to collect data was three different validated questionnaires that measured stress and energy (the Stress-Energy questionnaire), musculoskeletal disorders (intensity and localization of pain, a Pain Drawing questionnaire with a VAS-scale) and physical activity (IPAQ ? the short version). Eighty-eight workers participated in the study. Forty-seven of them were Office-workers and forty-one were warehouse-workers.

The Office is the working environment in which an increasing proportion of the population spends their days . One type of Office are open plan Offices which are characterized by several people sitting together in the same room without spatial boundaries . The general discourse of this kind of Offices is that they constitute an advantageous design that allows organizational changes without the need for redevelopment . From a work perspective, this Office design is both criticized and acclaimed . Problems with noise is frequently reported in research which can lead to ill health.

To find competencies on a workplace with flex Office structure.Companies today, 2012 are facing new opportunities and challenges. Information technology develops, competition is bigger today than ever, increased environmental requirements will be added and new patterns of life and values are occurring. This means that people who work in Offices feel strong pressure of conversion, which is something that people experience differently. Therefore it is essential how the working environment is designed in an Office. Working in an Office means a lot of information processing and we can see large changes taking place.

The purpose of this project was to invite a changed perception of active sitting, to introduce a more active way of sitting in Office environments and destigmatize an active sitting posture such as straddling by giving active sitting products conscious aesthetics based on environment and positive associations. The goal with this project was an active sitting product for Office environments with aesthetics considered encouraging to movement in a relaxed way, regardless of age and gender, and connect to materials and aesthetics related to activity, experience and recreation. Horseback riding, retro style surfing and skateboarding was an entry of investigation. The project was based on existing active sitting products, their function and production techniques. It was not a part of the project to investigate new models of sitting.

This thesis focuses on youth unemployment in Finspång, often referred as an industrial community. The theoretical framework of the thesis is based on social constructionism and covers theoretical discourse analysis, intersectionality and social capital. The study is based on qualitative interviews with 7 unemployed individuals between the ages of 19-24 and an interview with an employee at the employment Office in the community. The main subject in this thesis is the youngsters experience with unemployment, labour, the employment Office, the impacts of social capital and the labour market in the community. The analysis focuses in how the respondents discuss their experienced problems with their unemployment.