Psychosocial risks

Recent findings from the National Survey on Working Conditions (/Nationale Enquête Arbeidsomstandigheden/, NEA [1]) provide a closer look into the way that Dutch employees experience the safety environment of the companies for which they work. The NEA is a survey of about 25,000 employees that

A survey of 1,000 employees was conducted in April 2008, in the framework of the European-funded EQUAL WageIndicator [1] project, to assess gender pay differences in the Hungarian labour market. The results of the survey enabled an analysis of working conditions in the agricultural sector. Thus, the

The Institute for Social Research (Socialinių tyrimų institutas, STI [1]) conducted a survey of working conditions in the economic activity of social work in Lithuania in 2008, at the request of the Ministry of Social Security and Labour (Socialinės apsaugos ir darbo ministerija, SADM [2]). The

Recent research carried out in the metalworking sector in the Flanders region in northern Belgium specifically aimed to examine the impact of various forms of teamwork on stress symptoms among workers. The team concept implies a number of specific changes in the structure of the division of labour

In February 2009, the human resources company Adecco [1] published a press release (in Spanish, 38Kb PDF) [2] on the job profiles currently being accepted by unemployed people in Spain. The information is based on official statistics and Adecco’s own business data; the main findings of the research

Italy’s financial services sector was a highly fragmented and poorly competitive sector until the early 1990s, when it began to take a more dominant administrative approach, regulated by cartel agreements. However, it is currently dominated by three large groups – Unicredit, Intesa-Sanpaolo and MPS

The Danish Work Environment Council for Finance/Public Office and Administration (Branchearbejdsmiljørådet for Finans/Offentlig Kontor og Administration, BAR FOKA [1]) published a recent report amalgamating existing research results concerning open-plan offices (Arbejdsmilø i åbne kontorer [2]). The

A new study by the Swedish Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (Institutet för arbetsmarknadspolitisk utvärdering, IFAU [1]) – entitled Sick of your colleague’s absence? (233Kb PDF) [2] – expands further on the findings of a 2008 report (in Swedish, 600Kb PDF) [3], entitled /How is the