European Working Conditions Survey 2010

Achieving work environments that make work sustainable over a lifetime is a key facet of the promotion of longer working lives. This study - based on the fifth European Working Conditions Survey - considers the dimensions of work that have proved essential to the understanding of work sustainability: working conditions; physical and psychological health; the expressive dimension of work; reconciliation of working and non-working time; and socioeconomic conditions.

Work plays a pivotal role in people’s lives, in the functioning of companies and in society at large. Improving the quality of work and working conditions has long been at the forefront of EU policy, most recently in the Europe 2020 Strategy towards ‘Smart, inclusive and cohesive growth’. The fifth European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) explores topics as diverse as physical risks, working time, gender segregation, work–life balance, employee representation, work organisation, stress at work, skills development and pay, as well as health and well-being.

Trí scrúdú a dhéanamh ar an athrú atá tagtha ar dhálaí oibre (nó ar an tslí ar fhan siad mórán mar a chéile) féadfar léargas a fháil ar an dul chun cinn atá á dhéanamh chun na cuspóirí beartais seo a chur i gcrích. Féadfaidh sé léargas a thabhairt freisin ar an tionchar atá ag príomhthionscnóirí athraithe cosúil le domhandú, forbairt theicneolaíoch, foirmeacha níos solúbtha d’eagrú oibre, aosú daonra na hEorpa, agus an méadú ar an líon teaghlach a bhfuil beirt shaothraithe iontu, ar an tslí a bhfuil daoine ag obair agus an tslí a bhfuil daoine á bhfostú. Tugann na chéad torthaí seo ón gcúigiú Suirbhé ar Dhálaí Oibre na hEorpa (EWCS) a rinne Eurofound léargas dúinn ar chuid de na ríomhathruithe atá le tabhairt faoi deara ar dhálaí oibre in imeacht na mblianta.

This issue of Foundation Focus looks at the relationship between work and health, using first findings from Eurofound’s fifth European Working Conditions Survey which was launched on 16 and 17 November 2010 under the Belgian EU presidency. With the additional support of the European Commission, the two-day conference brought together high-level policymakers and decision makers in the field to discuss the future of working conditions across Europe.