Built in the middle of a green pasture a half-hour's drive from Stockholm, Scania's Health Care Centre fans out over 4,400 square metres, offering employees everything they could ever need to get in shape.
<b>High-tech gyms, free breakfasts, and programmes to help people lose weight or stop smoking: modern Swedish companies pamper their employees in a bid to combat one of Europe's highest absenteeism rates, writes AFP's Delphine Touitou</b>.
Swedish tax authorities have written letters to 340 strippers, some of whom still live with their parents, giving the women a one-time chance to pay back taxes owed on income they earned from dancing.
One in four unemployed Swedes lie to the Public Employment Service (Arbetsförmedlingen) about having applied for positions recommended to them by the agency.
More than 100,000 Swedes entered the labour force in 2007, allowing more Swedes to work more hours on average than almost ever before and bringing full-year unemployment down to 6.1 percent.
Swedish real estate agents could soon be banned from setting unrealistically low starting prices on homes they are selling, if the recommendations of a new government inquiry are accepted.
The number of complaints against real estate agents in Sweden has risen sharply, with industry regulator Fastighetsmäklarnämnden (FMN), receiving 371 complaints last year.
