Vargas Llave, Oscar
Working conditions and sustainable work: An analysis using the job quality framework
26 Febbraio 2021
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 highlights which groups are the most at risk of experiencing poor working conditions and being left behind. Given the changes in the world of work, emerging challenges for good job quality are identified. The report also provides evidence for measures that could lead to the further improvement of work and the achievement of fair working conditions for all in the EU.
Does the new telework generation need a right to disconnect?
03 Dicembre 2020
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 ‘always on’ culture that telework engenders, encouraging workers to respond to emails, phone calls and texts from work long after the working day or week has ended. This situation may be aggravated if the organisational culture at work incentivises employees to accept heavy workloads and put in overtime, often unpaid. All of which upsets work–life balance, leading to conflicts between work and home life, insufficient rest and health problems like work-related stress and sleep disorders.
Regulations to address work–life balance in digital flexible working arrangements
- Orario di lavoro
- Work organisation
- Working conditions
- Equilibrio tra vita professionale e vita privata
- Nuove forme di occupazione
- Collective bargaining
- Agreements
- L’era digitale: opportunità e sfide per il lavoro e l’occupazione
- Relazioni industriali
- Teleworking
- Labour and social regulation
- Prevedere e gestire l’impatto dei cambiamenti
- Condizioni di lavoro e lavoro sostenibile
- Relazioni industriali e dialogo sociale
02 Luglio 2020
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 ...
COVID-19: Policy responses across Europe
24 Giugno 2020
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, ...
COVID-19 unleashed the potential for telework – How are workers coping?
09 Giugno 2020
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 type and on a scale unseen before. The world of work will never be the same again. This event has accelerated the transition from a regular, bureaucratic and ‘factory-based’ organisation of work to one based on flexible task allocation and management by objectives. While these new-minted teleworkers are certainly better off than those who have lost their job or are at risk of losing it, there are downsides to the experience too.
Priorities for a new Europe
03 Marzo 2020
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 to a fair, climate-neutral and digital Europe.
Telework and ICT-based mobile work: Flexible working in the digital age
- Prevedere e gestire l’impatto dei cambiamenti
- L’era digitale: opportunità e sfide per il lavoro e l’occupazione
- Employment relationship
- Health and well-being at work
- Nuove forme di occupazione
- Platform work
- Teleworking
- Work organisation
- Equilibrio tra vita professionale e vita privata
- Working conditions
- Condizioni di lavoro e lavoro sostenibile
- Orario di lavoro
16 Gennaio 2020
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)...
How to respond to chronic health problems in the workplace?
15 Ottobre 2019
The number of workers living with chronic health conditions is rising in the EU. Such conditions affect people’s ability to work to varying degrees. While some are unable to continue working, many wish to and would be able to do so if their workplace made adaptations to accommodate their needs.
ICT-enabled flexible working – All plain sailing?
14 Maggio 2019
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 even luckier, it is YOU who decides upon your schedule and place of work.
Working conditions of workers of different ages
21 Dicembre 2017
Demographic change is increasing the number of older workers in employment in Europe. In order for all of them to work beyond 55 or even after the pension age, it is necessary to identify what are the factors preventing or helping workers to have a sustainable work.