The wellbeing-at-work team at the department

There is a permanent wellbeing team at the departmentfor suggesting, developing and coordinating measures for promoting wellbeing in our workplace. The person responsible for the work of the team is Planning Secretary Inka Kujala. Other team members are IT Specialist Jani Jaakkola, Amanuensis Teija Kujala, University Lecturer Tiina Niklander, University Lecturer Antti-Pekka Tuovinen and Communications Officer Pauliina Pajunen. Suggestions and all kinds of feedback are welcome at hyvinvointi-list(at)cs.helsinki.fi.

The Department of Computer Science offers its employees various services to promote their wellbeing, and organises different recreational events every year. At the department, employees have the following at their service:

•     A massaging chair: room C209. Turn the sign on the door so it says varattu (occupied) while you are using the chair, and turn it back to vapaa (unoccupied) when you leave.
•     Massaging seats: there are two massaging seats in the break room (B225) that anyone can use.
•     SAD lamps: three lamps, available for loan in office D243.

The annual recreational events for employees include the Christmas party, the winter sports day, and the two-day strategy seminar. In addition, the department organises a monthly assembly for staff and students, where current affairs are discussed. A few times each year, we have morning coffees for the staff of the department, with a talk from someone outside the department.

Recreational services offered by the department

Swimming tickets

The department has bought swimming tickets for the staff to "Urheiluhallit" Sport Centers at Helsinki (Kallio, Kontula, Malmi, Mäkelänrinne, Siltamäki, Töölö, Vuosaari). You can fetch swimming tickets in office D238.

The university's sports services.

The university's sports services offers its services on all four of the Helsinki University campuses. The sports centre at the Kumpula campus is located centrally on the campus. Its specialities are good and varied facilities for ball games, as well as a wall for climbing. The website of the university's sports services contains more information on what is on offer, and a system for making reservations.

Paying the sports fee  

The sports fee gives you access to the gym, exercise classes, and reserved ball games in all of the University Sports Services centers. In addition, the sports fee will gain you reduced prices for other services that the University Sports Services offers for additional fees and for the services of its cooperation partners. The sports fee is personal, and cannot be transferred to another person. Activate your sports fee in person (by fetching a sports sticker) at one of the University Sports centers. The 'sports period' must start inside 30 days of activating the sports fee.

The CS Department's sports turns

• Floorball: mondays, 13-14, Kumpula sports center, 2. floor, B field
• Indoor football: Tuesdays, 9.30-10.30, Kumpula sports center, 2. floor, B and C fields. Tuesdays turn is shared with staff of the finnish meteorological institute (FMI).
• Indoor football, thursdays, 9.15-10.15, Kumpula sports center, 2. floor, B field

You don't need to pay the sports fee to participate, but you need to have your staff or student id with you. You need indoor shoes and also a floorball stick for floorball turns. Floorball sticks can be rented from the sports center. We are playing only for fun, so anyone is welcome to participate, regardless of sports skills. You don't need to speak or understand finnish.

Please, register your participation to floorball turns using Doodle. For indoor and outdoor football turn registration we use FMI's registration system with user account tktl and password potkii. The registration is only needed for cancelling turns when there is not enough players, so feel free to participate even when you forgot to register.

Well-being, safety and occupational health in Flamma:

https://flamma.helsinki.fi/portal/home/sisalto?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=pp_list&placeId=HY034210