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A responsible employer

The ethical values of cooperative activities, such as caring for other people, are the guiding principles of our HR work. These principles include respecting our employees and valuing their work, justice, equality and wellbeing at work.

PKO is a great place to launch your career

A satisfied workplace community guarantees our success. We continuously invest in our employees so that they feel their work is meaningful and take pride in their work and their employer. In fact, our HR work always aims to make us the most desirable, respected and competent service industry employer in North Karelia. At PKO, everyone can have a say in their work duties, develop their skills and advance their career. We make combining family life and work as easy as possible, and we are flexible if an employee’s circumstances change.Here, every person is equal. That’s why we offer students and people with special needs opportunities to take their first steps in working life through internships and summer jobs, for example.

Heartfelt service from North Karelia

We focus on good management and the quality of working life to ensure that our motivated employees have successful customer interactions every day.Research shows that PKO employees are satisfied. Indicators of our good workplace community include our low employee turnover, sick leave and accident figures – all of which are lower than the national average. For many years, our job satisfaction survey has produced results that have been substantially higher than the average employee job satisfaction at Finnish companies.PKO has once again received the Finland’s Most Inspiring Workplaces recognition from Eezy Flow, a company specialising in employee surveys. Eezy Flow conducts the PeoplePower employee survey annually for hundreds of Finnish organisations, with more than 150,000 respondents each year. The Finland’s Most Inspiring Workplaces recognition is awarded to organisations that achieve exceptionally strong results in the survey.

We succeed together

Job satisfaction is critical because the cooperative's success hinges on its personnel.The ethical values of cooperative activities, such as caring for other people, are the guiding principles of our HR work. These principles include respecting our employees and valuing their work, justice, equality and wellbeing at work.

Responsible PKO

  • Responsibility and the Tekosysteemi

    At PKO, responsibility means both small and large everyday actions for the benefit of our customers, our region, and the environment.The well-being of our local area, its people, and nature is at the heart of the cooperative model.Even small responsible actions can have a big impact when combined.We call this the Tekosysteemi – our ecosystem of meaningful actions.
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  • Work from North Karelia

    Promoting Finnish products – especially those from North Karelia – is close to our heart. You can recognize local products by the ‘Work from North Karelia’ (Työtä Pohjois-Karjalasta) label on the shelf edge.
    Work from North Karelia label