European Company Surveys
Latest Findings from the European Company Survey 2009 are online.
The European Company Survey (ECS) is carried out every four years. The first company survey was known as the European Establishment Survey on Working Time and Work-Life Balance and was carried out in 2005. The second, under the new title European Company Survey, was completed in 2009. Some results of the 2009 survey have been published and more will follow during 2010. A limited extension to look at the financial performance of the establishments that took part in the survey was carried out in autumn 2009.
The European company survey (ECS) examines a range of issues, such as working time, work-life balance, and the development of social dialogue in companies.
When carried out for the first time in 2004-2005, it covered 21 countries: the 15 Member States and six of what were then new member states: Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Poland and Slovenia.
The ECS 2009 provides data on 30 countries: the 27 Member states, Croatia, Turkey and Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). The first results were published in December 2009.