Job content
This includes such areas as problem-solving, assessing the quality of your own work and learning new things. The Fourth European Wotking Conditions Survey (2005) found that most European workers are responsible for assessing the quality of their work themselves (73%) and solving unforeseen problems on their own (81%). Also, for a majority of Europeans, work involves learning new things (70%). Only 43% of European workers consider that their job involves monotonous tasks.
A closer analysis of the survey data from the four consecutive waves reveals that there is a slow, but clear reduction in the proportion of jobs involving own assessment of the quality, solving unforeseen problems and learning new things (in the three cases, the reduction is around 5%).