The COVID-19 pandemic had profound implications on the labour market and job quality in Europe, creating both new challenges and exacerbating existing trends. Eurofound’s analysis of the European Working Conditions Telephone Survey (EWCTS) indicates that around 30% of EU workers are in strained
Despite nominal increases in statutory minimum wages reaching an all-time high between January 2022 and January 2023, minimum wage workers in most EU countries are seeing their purchasing power decline or just about compensated, based on preliminary inflation figures. With inflation expected to
41.7 million people teleworked across the EU in 2021, double the number of 2019, as COVID-19 restrictions and changes in work culture significantly impacted work organisation. While there was a small decline in 2022, this upward trend in teleworking is set to resume as technological developments are
Two-thirds of respondents from the EU and 10 neighbouring countries reported difficulties making ends meet in the fifth round of the Living, working and COVID-19 survey. This was notably higher in EU neighbouring countries than in the EU, with 81% in neighbouring countries reporting difficulties
41.7 million workers in the European Union teleworked in 2021, this is comparable to the size of the entire German workforce. The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed telework from being an issue that affected a relatively small proportion of the workforce to being an important aspect of working life
The survey shows that already prior to the intensification of inflation and a cost-of-living crisis that worsened in 2022, a high number of people in work were in vulnerable situations, with 26% reporting difficulties in making ends meet and 17% unable to predict their earnings in the coming three
The President of the European Court of Auditors and members of his cabinet met with Eurofound’s Executive Director, Ivailo Kalfin and senior managers on 21 November 2022, following the recent appointment of Tony Murphy, an Irish national, elected by the ECA members on 20 September.
