Wellbeing Desk for Aalto personnel
Wellbeing Desk is a low-threshold service point for Aalto's entire personnel, where you can get advice and service guidance in matters related to wellbeing at work and work ability.
We behave in a responsible manner and respect the rights of the other members of our community to enjoy a safe and pleasant university environment that allows unhindered progress in study and work.
We do not accept any kind of inappropriate conduct, bullying or harassment. If you have experienced or you are unsure whether you have encountered inappropriate conduct or harassment, follow the instructions below. Inappropriate conduct or harassment cannot be influenced or prevented if it is not discussed among the persons concerned or if support is not sought from one's superior or HR or other contacts mentioned below.
If possible, start by explaining the person that their behavior does not seem appropriate and ask them to stop.
It’s important to bring up challenges once noticed, even if challenging others' behavior might feel uneasy. It might be that the person does not understand that their behavior feels inappropriate to others. Discussing the matter helps us to see situations from other perspectives.
Sometimes the situation might continue or there might be reasons why it isn’t possible to bring up challenges with the person behaving inappropriately. In this cases do not hesitate to ask for help: support is available for you.
If you experience harassment or inappropriate conduct, do not hesitate to take action and ask for help: support is available, and Aalto has clear shared principles and processes for handling these situations. All members of the Aalto community are for their part responsible for the atmosphere and wellbeing in their workplace and studying community.
If you are an employee you can contact for example your own supervisors, HR services, occupational health support, union representatives or harassment and inappropriate conduct contact persons.
If you are a student you can contact one of the following: the manager of academic affairs at your school or the harassment contact person of AYY (contact details below). You can also contact the Aalto study psychologists (student counsellors). More information here.
In all cases and with all questions you can contact Aalto's harassment contact persons by sending email to [email protected]. Do not include sensitive material in the message that is not necessary for the matter (e.g. information about your own or another person's health or family situation). The email address is read only by harassment contact persons. The harassment contact persons can be contacted confidentially and they do not proceed your case without your permission.
Aalto University's harassment contact persons for personnel are Anne Petroff ([email protected]) and Mikko Raskinen ([email protected]). Their role is to support the person who has experienced harassment or inappropriate behaviour or seen/witnessed it and to help to proceed if so wished. Harassment contact persons do not solve any cases instead they inform about different options to proceed.
Harassment contact persons are available to provide approximately 1/2 hour info session at department or unit meetings on the prevention of harassment and inappropriate conduct and Aalto's processes.
A staff member of the Aalto community experiences harassment or inappropriate conduct by the staff and reports about it to the supervisor, the supervisor's supervisor, or HR. The employer's representative, i.e. the supervisor, together with the school's HR manager, starts the clarification process, which proceeds as described below. If one of the parties is a student, the head of the school's learning services is also involved in the process.
Support in cases of harassment for students
The Aalto University Code of Conduct is one way of putting our values and way of working — the foundation of our community culture — into practice
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Wellbeing Desk is a low-threshold service point for Aalto's entire personnel, where you can get advice and service guidance in matters related to wellbeing at work and work ability.