Social responsibility

Personnel

Vaisala strives to be the best in the field in all its endeavors. This applies also to Vaisala as an employer. We want to be acknowledged as a great and realiable company to work for. Our employees seem to think we are, as the average retention time is nearly 10 years.

At the end of 2009 Vaisala Group employed approximately 1400 persons working in nearly 30 locations in 12 countries. Most of the personnel worked in the headquarters in Finland (57%) and in USA (27%).

Read more about the Vaisala personnel on the corporate responsibility pages.

Active member of the society

Vaisala is an active member of the society collaborating with several stakeholder groups. The close cooperation with universities and research institutes originates from the 1930s when the company was just established.

In 2009 Vaisala announced the development of a reference radiosonde for the use climate change research. Read about the reference sonde and other ongoing projects.

Vaisala's community outreach supports organizations and projects that advance environmental awareness and science education. All our outreach activities should be in line with Vaisala’s values and resonate well with environmental issues such as climate, weather, environmental measurement and environmental sciences.

Read more about the community outreach program from the 2009 CR report.