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Debatt: Kollegas mest lästa debatter

Fruktskålar, distansarbete och stress på jobbet. Här är några av våra mest lästa debatter under året.
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Under året har ämnen debatterats, kommenterats och fått svar på Kollegas debattsida. Har du något som rör arbetslivet värt att lyfta? Tveka inte att höra av dig. 

Här är de debattartiklar som lästes av allra flest 2023: 

 

Sluta tvinga anställda till jobbet

Att tvinga anställda att ta sig till kontoret för att utföra ett jobb som lika gärna kan utföras hemifrån är slöseri med tid och resurser, skriver Job van der Voort.

Min lillebror förtjänade inte att dö

Tänk om samhället, vi människor och arbetsgivare kunde se lite snällare på kravspecen. Då kanske min lillebror hade haft en chans, skriver Pernilla Alexandersson.

Trivsel på jobbet handlar inte om fruktskålar

Fler fruktskålar, moderna kontor eller höga friskvårdsbidrag löser inte ohälsan på Sveriges arbetsplatser, skriver Henrik Axelsson.

Jag stressade bort tio år av mitt liv

Vad var syftet med all träning, prestation och stress som tärde på både mig och min familj, skriver Karin Axelsson.

Undvik giftig kultur på hybridkontoret

I ett arbetsliv med nya arbetssätt är det viktigt att skapa en kultur där det är okej att göra fel, skriver Eduard von Busch.

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Debatt: Remote work is worth being bargained for

Companies who offered hybrid or remote work are taking steps to return their workforce to the office. I believe Swedish unions must work to protect remote members’ rights and avoid the unnecessary upheaval of their lives, writes software engineer Clément Pirelli.
Publicerad 16 december 2025, kl 09:15
Remote work Clément Pirelli, Software Engineer at EA Frostbite
A return to the office has dire consequences for remote or hybrid employees, writes software engineer Clément Pirelli. Foto: Colourbox/privat
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While remote work is not a new phenomenon, the COVID-19 pandemic proved the efficacy of the remote model on a large scale by forcing most white-collar businesses to switch to working remotely. 

Since then, employees have begun building their lives around this new norm; some of course chose to return to the office when the pandemic ended, if only part time (so-called hybrid work), but many chose to continue working remotely, which cemented remote working as a legitimate and systematically applied work model in many industries.

Recently however, a majority of companies who offered hybrid or remote work are taking steps to return their workforce to the office. These changes are often mandated by decision-making bodies outside of Sweden, lack scientific or evidence-based justification, and are unilaterally determined.

Workers are now forced to move or commute for hours a day

Employers often describe remote working as a benefit which can be given and taken away at will, but a change of work model has serious consequences for remote workers’ daily life: even if they were hired as a remote employee, they are now forced to move or commute for hours a day to a distant office where, in the cases of distributed or international companies, their colleagues might not even be located. 

If their company has offices in other countries, they’re either forced to stay to take part in meetings in other timezones, or allowed to take the meeting… at home, remotely! They now face difficulties managing childcare, pets and other caretaking responsibilities; their work and daily life conflict.

Employers spend enormous amounts on office space many employees don’t even want to work in

But employees are not the only ones negatively affected by the change: employers are also worse off. They spend enormous amounts on office space many employees don’t even want to work in, and thus become less attractive for new recruits, both Swedish and international. 

Some believe we should go back to the office because outsourcing is then less of a problem, but this argument simply doesn’t hold up to scrutiny, at least not for the tech industry: Sweden has 250’000 tech employees according to TechSverige, and many are top talent who moved here in search of better working conditions. Sweden’s workforce is competitive globally, and it’s exactly the Swedish model which made this happen.

But we have to maintain the excellent working conditions Sweden is known for if this is to continue, and this can no longer be done without discussing remote working. It’s clear the question must be negotiated, not just between unions and employer organisations, but also locally between companies and their clubs

/Clément Pirelli, software engineer at EA Frostbite

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