Jorge Cabrita

Senior research manager, Working life research unit

Jorge Cabrita is a senior research manager in the Working Life unit. He is responsible for formulating, coordinating and managing European-wide research, and promoting the dissemination of findings in the areas of working conditions and industrial relations. His main research areas of interest include working conditions and job quality, working time and work–life balance, workers’ health and well-being, gender equality and the socioeconomic impacts of the transition to a climate-neutral economy. He is currently leading research on working time developments and on social dialogue and collective bargaining during the COVID-19 pandemic. Previously, he worked as a researcher at the Centre for Studies for Social Intervention and at the Research Centre on the Portuguese Economy of the Lisbon School of Economics, and as a trainer and consultant in the areas of strategic management, organisational communication, leadership and team building. He holds a BSc in Economics and an MSc in Socio-Organisational Systems of Economic Activity from the Lisbon School of Economics.

Topics
Work-life balance
Working time
Leave

Staff

Disclaimer

When freely submitting your request, you are consenting Eurofound in handling your personal data to reply to you. Your request will be handled in accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data. More information, please read the Data Protection Notice.

Outputs by Jorge Cabrita

Results (52)

Working time in 2021–2022

This report examines the average weekly working hours across Europe in 2021 and 2022. It covers important developments resulting from legislative reforms in collective bargaining at national or sectoral level, drawing on debates about the reduction of working time and the four-day working week.

24 October 2023
Publication
Research report
Working time
Agreements
Collective bargaining
Leave
Industrial relations and social dialogue
Work-life balance
Working conditions

Job quality of COVID-19 pandemic essential workers: Annexes

13 October 2023
Working paper
Job quality
Working conditions and sustainable work

Job quality of COVID-19 pandemic essential workers

During the COVID-19 pandemic, a diverse collection of workers ensured the functioning of our societies. In a time of crisis, they maintained access to healthcare, long-term care and other essential goods and services, including food, water, electricity, the internet and waste treatment.

10 October 2023
Publication
Policy brief
Working conditions and sustainable work
Working conditions
Job quality
COVID-19
ef22011_card_cover.png

Hybrid work in Europe: Concept and practice

The term ‘hybrid work’ was popularised with the upsurge of telework during the COVID-19 pandemic, when companies and employees started to discuss ways of organising work after the crisis. The term has been increasingly used to refer to situations in which (teleworkable) work is carried out from two

25 May 2023
Publication
Research report
Working conditions and sustainable work
Teleworking
Work organisation
Labour and social regulation
ef22028_card_cover.png

The future of telework and hybrid work

The report explores plausible and imaginable scenarios examining how telework and hybrid work in the EU might have developed by 2035, and their implications for the world of work. How prepared are managers and employees, employer organisations and trade unions, and policymakers for the greater

28 April 2023
Publication
Research report
Skills and training
Working conditions and sustainable work
Teleworking
Work organisation
Anticipating and managing the impact of change
Innovation
Job quality
ef22012_card_cover.png

Working conditions in the time of COVID-19: Implications for the future

The strict public health restrictions implemented by governments in 2020 to control the COVID-19 pandemic abruptly changed working life and continued to shape it over the two years that followed. Between March and November 2021, over 70,000 interviews were carried out in 36 countries by the European

29 November 2022
Publication
Research report
Skills and training
Working time
Working poor
Working conditions and sustainable work
Working conditions
Teleworking
Sustainable work
Work-life balance
Health and well-being at work
Job quality
ef21025_card_cover.png

Overtime in Europe: Regulation and practice

Despite the well-known adverse effects of regular long working hours on workers’ health, well-being and performance, many workers in the EU continue to work beyond their normal hours. Part of this additional working time is classified as overtime. This report takes a comparative overview of how

10 March 2022
Publication
Research report
Pay and income
Working time
Working conditions
Work organisation
European Pillar of Social Rights
Industrial relations and social dialogue
ef22004_card_cover.png

Exploring the social challenges of low carbon energy policies in Europe

This briefing is co-produced by the European Environment Agency (EEA) and Eurofound. It is based on the results of two complementary analyses by the EEA and the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) on the socioeconomic effects of climate policies, in

29 October 2021
Publication
Other
Social policies
Structural change
European Green Deal
Anticipating and managing the impact of change
COVID-19
Labour market policies
Just transition
ef21038_card_cover.png

Working time in 2019–2020

The most relevant changes in working time regulation in Europe in 2019 and 2020 addressed challenges arising as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Most focused on short-time working schemes, on approaches to teleworking for those able to work from home and on regulations to ensure the safe provision

14 October 2021
Publication
Research report
Social dialogue
Working time
Working conditions
European Pillar of Social Rights
Collective bargaining
Leave
Industrial relations and social dialogue
ef20037_card_cover.png

Distributional impacts of climate policies in Europe

With the European Green Deal, the EU is setting in motion a set of policies and measures aimed at preventing and alleviating the effects of climate change. The main objective is to embark on the transition to a climate-neutral economy. These much needed climate policies, however, may have

06 July 2021
Publication
Research report
Social policies
Pay and income
Structural change
Working conditions and sustainable work
European Green Deal
Anticipating and managing the impact of change
Just transition
Results (4)

Healthy social dialogue for a healthy healthcare sector

The COVID-19 pandemic made us acutely aware of how dependent our society is on certain essential workers. We felt deep gratitude towards workers in healthcare especially, because they worked ceaselessly in often-difficult conditions.

22 November 2023
Jorge Cabrita
Blog
Working conditions and sustainable work
Job quality
Health and well-being at work
Social dialogue
Collective bargaining
image_blog_covid_31032020.png

COVID-19 intensifies emotional demands on healthcare workers

Health professionals – doctors, nurses, nursing assistants, paramedics, ambulance workers – are in the vanguard of the battle against COVID-19. They are the ones dealing with sick people, triaging, testing and treating them. They are the ones confronting suffering and death. While some of their

31 March 2020
Jorge Cabrita
Blog
Working conditions and sustainable work
Working conditions
Health and well-being at work
COVID-19
Job quality
Rethinking working time in Europe

Rethinking working time in Europe

The results of recent research on working time patterns in the EU constitute a strong plea for working time policies that clearly acknowledge the life course perspective. This means that working time must not only be thought and organised in daily, weekly, monthly and/or yearly terms but also take

1 November 2017
Jorge Cabrita
Blog
Working conditions and sustainable work
Working time
dmwr2btpmzmq8yibnnb9.jpg

The importance of collective bargaining in establishing working time in Europe

​Nowadays we all know that long or excessive working hours may have serious negative impacts on a person’s health and wellbeing. Eurofound‘s new report 'Working time developments in the 21st century' suggests that if working time standards are mainly left to legislation or to be set unilaterally by

4 March 2016
Jorge Cabrita
Blog
Collective bargaining
Industrial relations
Working time
Industrial relations and social dialogue
Results (30)

Episode 16 – How did Europe treat its essential workers?

Mary McCaughey speaks with Eurofound Research Manager Jorge Cabrita about new research that highlights poor job quality - including high emotional demands, working at high speed and to tight deadlines - among several of the sectors and professions deemed essential, key or critical during the COVID-1
24 October 2023
Podcast
Skills and training

Episode 13 - The work-life challenges of women and men

In this episode of Eurofound Talks, recorded for International Women's Day 2023, Mary McCaughey speaks with Eurofound Working Life researchers Jorge Cabrita and Viginta Ivaškaitė-Tamošiūnė about how, when paid and unpaid work are combined, women do eight full-time weeks more work than men per year
8 March 2023
Podcast
Gender equality
Employment and labour markets
Labour market policies
image_article_cloxit_12122018.jpg

Summer time arrangements in the EU: A tripartite outlook on ‘Cloxit’

On 31 March 2019, clocks across the EU will go forward one hour, a Union-wide event since 2002. However, the European Commission has proposed abolishing the bi-annual hour change, an idea favoured by the vast majority of respondents in a public consultation. This article discusses reactions by

12 December 2018
Article
Industrial relations
Labour and social regulation
Living conditions
Working conditions
Working time
Working conditions and sustainable work
Industrial relations and social dialogue

Lack of gender bias in job evaluation in hotels and restaurants

A recent project, entitled ‘Revalue work to promote gender equality’ (Revalorizar o Trabalho para Promover a Igualdade [1]), was funded by the EQUAL Community Initiative [2] and coordinated by the General Confederation of the Portuguese Workers (Confederação Geral dos Trabalhadores Portugueses –

27 April 2009
Article
Gender equality
Pay and income

Assessing the nature and extent of undeclared work

In 2003, the Economic and Social Studies Society (Sociedade de Estudos Económicos e Sociais, S2E2 [1]) carried out a study on behalf of the Directorate General of Studies, Statistics and Planning – currently the Office for Strategy and Planning (Gabinete de Estratégia e Planeamento, GEP [2]) – on

1 April 2009
Article
Employment status
Employment and labour markets

Companies assessing gender equality for themselves

An assessment made in the first phase of a project entitled ‘Social dialogue and equality in companies’ (Diálogo Social e Igualdade nas Empresas [1]) revealed that most companies in Portugal are not acquainted with the principle of gender equality [2] or how to promote it, nor with the competitive

3 February 2009
Article
Gender equality

National health and safety strategy aims to reduce number of workplace accidents

According to most recent statistics of the Ministry of Labour and Social Solidarity (Ministério do Trabalho e da Solidariedade Social, MTSS [1]), the number of reported occupational accidents continues to decline (PT0704019I [2]). The number of working days lost due to workplace accidents decreased

26 January 2009
Article
Health and well-being at work

Disparities in job security and satisfaction among Portuguese workers

Attitudes to work amongPortuguese workers vary greatly. In general, male workers, workers with a university degree and full-time workers seem to feel more secure in their jobs, to think that they have good opportunities for promotion and to be more satisfied about their jobs than female workers

26 November 2008
Article

Main types of accident in the workplace

A study on the most prevalent types of occupational accidents in Portugal was carried out by the Safety, Reliability and Maintenance Group [1] of the Centre for Marine Technology and Engineering (Centro de Engenharia e Tecnologia Naval) at the Higher Technical Institute (Instituto Superior Técnico

7 July 2008
Article
Health and well-being at work

Overcoming the low skills profile in Portugal

In many countries, the fast transition to a knowledge-based economy has led to increasing inequalities in the labour market, notably the polarisation of high-skilled and low-skilled workers in terms of their access to training, employment and income. Over the past two decades, the pay gap between

18 June 2008
Article
Skills and training
Employment and labour markets