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Finnish workplaces are becoming easier to navigate day to day, but harder to trust from the top. Fresh data from Eezy’s annual survey, covering around 200,000 respondents, suggests that while everyday work has improved, confidence in leadership is slipping.
The PeoplePower® index fell slightly from 70.9 in 2024 to 70.6 in 2025, Eezy reported today.
Behind that modest decline lies a sharper shift in sentiment. Trust in leadership weakened, with the share of critical assessments rising by 13 percent. Employee commitment also declined, with engagement dropping by four percentage points and critical views increasing by 7 percent.
“At the same time, working life shows both uncertainty and the results of long-term development. While the overall experience weakens in the short term, daily operations and frontline management practices are in many organizations at a better level than before,” said Johanna Lehmus, director of insight and data at Eezy Flow.
That contrast defines the moment. Employees report smoother daily work, more reasonable workloads, and less stress. Yet top executives feel the opposite, with critical assessments of their workload rising by 19 percent.
The strongest gains are in frontline leadership. Over 10 years, recognition for performance has improved by 9 percent, and interest in employee ideas by 8 percent. Better managers are emerging, even as faith in leadership overall weakens.
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