Communiqué, issue 6, 2004
Special Foundation Forum 2004
- Time to re-think work-life balance: Second Foundation Forum debates key issues
- Do we need to work longer hours?
- Time and flexibility
- Investing in work-life balance – a win-win situation?
- Work and care - payback for the elderly or investment in a new generation?
- Keynote round-up
- An economy or a society: where do we live and work?
Articles
- Focusing firmly on the year ahead
- Foundation forges closer ties with the EP
- Disability and social exclusion: Reversing the trend
- Europe ‘not losing jobs’ due to outsourcing of ICT services
Previous issues of Communiqué
Europe is ‘not losing jobs’ in the information and communication technologies (ICT) services sector due to outsourcing, according to the Foundation’s European Monitoring Centre on Change (EMCC), in a new report – Outsourcing of ICT and related services in the EU.
The report also indicates that the strongest growth has, in fact, taken place in countries where employment levels in the ICT sector are at their lowest. In other words, although the new Member States are behind the rest of Europe in the proportion of their economies devoted to ICT services, they are quickly catching up. Surprisingly, the report outlined, the lowest growth rates are, largely, in the most developed economies.
The full report is available at: www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/EF04137.htm