Oscar Vargas Llave

Oscar Vargas Llave

Research manager, Working life research unit

Oscar Vargas Llave is a research manager in the Working Life unit at Eurofound and manages projects on changes in the world of work and the impact on working conditions and related policies: organisation of working time, remote work, the right to disconnect, health and well-being and ageing. Before joining Eurofound in December 2009, he worked as project coordinator in the field of health and safety and was responsible for the Professional Card Scheme for the Construction Sector in Spain at the non-profit Fundación Laboral de la Construcción in Madrid. He has a background in industrial sociology (Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca), and also holds a Diploma in Social Science Research Methods from the University of Cardiff and a Master’s degree in Health and Safety from the Autonomous University of Madrid.
 

Topics
Teleworking
Psychosocial risks
Working time

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Outputs by Oscar Vargas Llave

Results (25)

Psychosocial risks to workers' well-being: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic

Using data from the European Working Conditions Telephone Survey 2021 and building on a theoretical model that differentiates between job stressors and job resources, this report examines key psychosocial risks in the workplace and their impact on health.

23 November 2023
Publication
Research report
Psychosocial risks
Working conditions and sustainable work
Health and well-being at work
Teleworking
COVID-19
Working time
Discrimination at work
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The rise in telework: Impact on working conditions and regulations

This report presents Eurofound’s research on telework during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021. It explores changes in the incidence of telework, working conditions experienced by employees working from home and changes to regulations addressing issues related to this working arrangement.

08 December 2022
Publication
Research report
New forms of employment
Working conditions and sustainable work
Working conditions
Teleworking
Employment relationship
COVID-19
Digitalisation
Labour and social regulation
Working time
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Telework in the EU: Regulatory frameworks and recent updates

This report sets out to map and analyse legislation and collective bargaining on telework in the 27 Member States and Norway. It highlights the main cross-country differences and similarities regarding telework legislation and recent changes to these regulations. It also examines the current situati

01 September 2022
Publication
Research report
Working time
Working conditions
Teleworking
Work-life balance
Work organisation
Agreements
Collective bargaining
Labour and social regulation
Industrial relations and social dialogue
Industrial relations
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Right to disconnect: Exploring company practices

Digital technologies have made it possible for many workers to carry out their work at any time and anywhere, with consequent advantages and disadvantages. Eurofound data show that teleworkers are twice as likely to exceed the 48-hour working time limit, take insufficient rest and work in their free

09 September 2021
Publication
Research report
Social dialogue
Working time
Working conditions and sustainable work
Working conditions
Teleworking
Work-life balance
Work organisation
Employment relationship
Health and well-being at work
Agreements
Collective bargaining
Digitalisation
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Working conditions and sustainable work: An analysis using the job quality framework

This flagship report summarises the key findings of Eurofound’s research on working conditions conducted over the programming period 2017–2020. It maps the progress achieved since 2000 in improving working conditions and examines whether all workers have benefited equally from positive change. It

26 February 2021
Publication
Flagship report
Psychosocial risks
Working time
Working conditions and sustainable work
Working conditions
Sustainable work
Undeclared work
Work-life balance
Work organisation
Employment relationship
Health and well-being at work
Gender equality
COVID-19
Job quality
Ageing workforce

Right to disconnect in the 27 EU Member States

28 July 2020
Working paper
Health and well-being at work
Social dialogue
Digitalisation
Industrial relations
Teleworking
Labour and social regulation
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Regulations to address work–life balance in digital flexible working arrangements

Developments in information and communication technology (ICT) have been among the key drivers of change in working life over the past two decades. Specifically, telework and ICT-based mobile work (TICTM) exemplifies how digital technology has led to more flexible workplace and working time

02 July 2020
Publication
Research report
Working time
Work organisation
Working conditions
Work-life balance
New forms of employment
Collective bargaining
Agreements
Digitalisation
Industrial relations
Teleworking
Labour and social regulation
Anticipating and managing the impact of change
Working conditions and sustainable work
Industrial relations and social dialogue
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COVID-19: Policy responses across Europe

The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of individuals and societies, including on the economy and labour markets, is unprecedented. The impact of the global health emergency has placed a growing number of businesses under threat, putting the jobs of more and more workers at risk and

24 June 2020
Publication
Research report
Social policies
Social partners
Working time
Teleworking
Unemployment
Employment and labour markets
Agreements
COVID-19
Labour market policies
Industrial relations and social dialogue
Industrial relations
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Priorities for a new Europe

This compendium of articles presents a snapshot of some of Eurofound’s most recent research, and highlights important 21st-century trends in quality of life and working conditions throughout the EU. It is organised around the six priority areas set out by the new European Commission for a transition

03 March 2020
Publication
Other
European Pillar of Social Rights
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Telework and ICT-based mobile work: Flexible working in the digital age

Advances in ICT have opened the door to new ways of organising work. We are shifting from a regular, bureaucratic and ‘factory-based’ working time pattern towards a more flexible model of work. Telework and ICT-based mobile work (TICTM) has emerged in this transition, giving workers and employers

16 January 2020
Publication
Research report
Anticipating and managing the impact of change
Digitalisation
Employment relationship
Health and well-being at work
New forms of employment
Platform work
Teleworking
Work organisation
Work-life balance
Working conditions
Working conditions and sustainable work
Working time
Results (4)
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Do we really have the right to disconnect?

Telework has become a permanent feature of working life in Europe. While we’ve seen the benefits of more flexible ways of working – particularly during the pandemic – the problems that arise from an increasingly connected life are also becoming clearer. Unfortunately, legislation alone may not be

13 July 2022
Oscar Vargas Llave
Blog
Working conditions and sustainable work
Teleworking
Work-life balance
Anticipating and managing the impact of change
Digitalisation
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Does the new telework generation need a right to disconnect?

Whatever the benefits of telework – and there are many, including more flexible working time, increased productivity and less commuting – there are drawbacks, as many of the one-third of Europeans who were exclusively working from home during the pandemic will attest. Primary among these is the ‘alw

3 December 2020
Oscar Vargas Llave
Blog
Working conditions and sustainable work
Work-life balance
Collective bargaining
Agreements
Digitalisation
Teleworking
Labour and social regulation
Anticipating and managing the impact of change
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COVID-19 unleashed the potential for telework – How are workers coping?

The COVID-19 health crisis prompted governments to take the unprecedented step of shutting down all workplaces, apart from those providing essential goods and services, to control the spread of the virus. Every worker who was able to do so began to work from home, initiating a social experiment of a

9 June 2020
Oscar Vargas Llave
Blog
COVID-19
Work-life balance
Teleworking
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ICT-enabled flexible working – All plain sailing?

Imagine you’re at work and something happens: you have to leave to visit a client, you have to go home to let in the plumber, or you have to collect the kids from school as the football training has just been cancelled. If you’re lucky, your employer gives you the flexibility to do this. If you’re

14 May 2019
Oscar Vargas Llave
Blog
Non-standard employment
Working conditions
New forms of employment
Inclusive labour markets
Digitalisation
Employment and labour markets
Anticipating and managing the impact of change
Working conditions and sustainable work
Results (3)

Flexible work increases post-pandemic, but not for everyone

Even before the outbreak of COVID-19, various forms of flexible work, such as teleworking and flexitime, were in place across EU Member States. However, the pandemic led to a surge in flexible working practices with many workers wanting to focus on their work–life balance and have more time for

11 April 2024
Article
Working conditions and sustainable work
Working time
Work organisation
Work-life balance
Teleworking

Episode 11 – Telework

In this episode of Eurofound Talks Oscar Vargas and Mary McCaughey use results from the Living, working and COVID-19 online surveys, the European Working Conditions Telephone Survey, and other analyses from Eurofound to investigate what the future holds for telework in Europe, whether the mass rollo
2 December 2022
Podcast
Teleworking
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Workers want to telework but long working hours, isolation and inadequate equipment must be tackled

The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a surge in telework, with dramatic increases in the number of employees working from home (teleworking) in many European countries. What for many employees started out as a mandatory move seems to have transformed into a preference among the majority for part-time or

6 September 2021
Article
Working time
Working conditions and sustainable work
Working conditions
Teleworking
Work-life balance
European Pillar of Social Rights
Gender equality
COVID-19