Arbeidsomstandigheden
Werkomstandigheden verwijzen naar de omstandigheden waaronder en waaronder het werk wordt verricht. Een werkcondities is een kenmerk of combinatie van kenmerken van werk dat kan worden aangepast en verbeterd. Huidige opvattingen over arbeidsomstandigheden bevatten bredere factoren die de werknemer psychosomatisch kunnen beïnvloeden. Een bredere definitie van de term omvat dus de economische dimensie van werk en de effecten op de leefomstandigheden. Arbeidsomstandigheden zijn een onderwerp van het arbeidsrecht en worden geregeld door al haar verschillende bronnen: wetgeving, collectieve arbeidsovereenkomsten, arbeidsregels, de arbeidsovereenkomst, evenals gebruik en praktijk.
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29 November 2022
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 Working Conditions Telephone Survey (EWCTS), a high-quality probability-based survey. The aim was to provide a detailed picture of the working lives of Europeans in that exceptional time.
The report documents the working conditions of Europeans in 2021. It examines variation in job quality and identifies its positive association with well-being, health, work engagement and the financial sustainability of work. It highlights the divergences in the experiences of workers depending on workers’ own attributes and their place in the workforce. From this analysis, the report aims to derive lessons for the future, particularly in relation to the enduring marks on how we work and the implications for work organisation, the quality of work, and the interaction between work and private life.
7 December 2022
Living, working and COVID-19 in the European Union and 10 EU neighbouring countries
The Living, working and COVID-19 survey, first launched by Eurofound in early 2020, aims to capture the wide-ranging impact of the pandemic on the work and lives of EU citizens. The fifth round of the Eurofound survey, which was implemented in spring 2022, also sheds light on a new uncertain reality caused by the war in Ukraine, record-high inflation and sharp rises in the cost of living. As a pilot survey, a shorter version of the questionnaire was fielded by the European Training Foundation (ETF) in 10 European Union (EU) neighbouring countries. This joint Eurofound-ETF factsheet presents a selection of results from the survey covering both the EU-27 and the 10 selected EU neighbouring countries.
The results reveal at least one clear commonality across respondents from all countries: serious concerns about the rising cost of living. At the same time, the results point to a large divergence in living and working conditions between respondents in the two groups of countries, but also show large differences within the EU itself and amongst the selected EU neighbouring countries.
19 May 2022
Werksleven tijdens de COVID-19-pandemie 2021
Deze publicatie bestaat uit individuele landenrapporten over het werkende leven in 2021 voor 28 landen – de 27 EU-lidstaten en Noorwegen. De landrapporten vatten het bewijs samen over de impact van de COVID-19-pandemie op het werkleven, gebaseerd op nationaal onderzoek en enquêteresultaten in 2021. Ze schetsen de beleidsreacties van overheden en sociale partners in hun inspanningen om de sociaaleconomische effecten te verzachten en leggen de nadruk op beleidsgebieden die verband houden met aanpassing aan de pandemie en de terugkeer naar werk. Dit omvat met name een focus op nieuwe gezondheids- en veiligheidsregelingen op het werk, nieuwe werkregelingen, beleid om arbeidstekorten aan te pakken, lonen en loonsformulering. De rapporten onderzoeken ook de impact van de pandemie op sociale dialoog, collectieve onderhandelingen en industriële actie.
Let op: er is in 2021 geen geconsolideerd rapport over het werkleven in de EU.
10 March 2022
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 overtime is regulated in the EU Member States, Norway and the United Kingdom, including its definition, the limits on its use and the compensation received by workers for working extra hours. The report assesses the extent of the phenomenon using national-level data, delves into the factors that explain it, and examines the potential consequences for workers and firms. Finally, the report summarises the current debate on the topic, as uncompensated working hours, structural overtime and monitoring of working hours are currently some of the most discussed work-related issues across the EU.
9 December 2020
Employee monitoring and surveillance: The challenges of digitalisation
New digital technologies have expanded the possibilities of employee monitoring and surveillance, both in and outside the workplace. In the context of the increasing digitalisation of work, there are many issues related to employee monitoring that warrant the attention of policymakers. As well as the often-cited privacy and ethical concerns, there are also important implications for worker–employer relations, as digitally enabled monitoring and surveillance inevitably shift power dynamics in the workplace. Based on input from the Network of Eurofound Correspondents, this report explores the regulatory approaches to workplace monitoring in Europe, and the many challenges arising from the use of new digital technologies. Drawing from empirical and qualitative research, the report also provides some insight into the extent of employee monitoring in Europe and the implications for job quality and work organisation.
16 January 2020
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 the ability to adapt the time and location of work to their needs. Despite the flexibility and higher level of worker autonomy inherent in TICTM, there are risks that this work arrangement leads to the deterioration of work–life balance, higher stress levels and failing worker health. This report analyses the employment and working conditions of workers with TICTM arrangements, focusing on how it affects their work–life balance, health, performance and job prospects. While policymakers in many EU countries are debating TICTM and its implications, the study finds that only a few have implemented new regulations to prevent TICTM from having a negative impact on the well-being of workers.
Experts over Arbeidsomstandigheden
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Agnès Parent-Thirion
Senior research managerAgnès Parent-Thirion is senior onderzoeksmanager bij de afdeling Arbeidsleven van Eurofound, belast met de planning, ontwikkeling en uitvoering van onderzoeksprojecten op het gebied van arbeidsomstandigheden, met name de Europese enquête naar de arbeidsomstandigheden (EWCS) en de analyses daarvan. Zij is verantwoordelijk voor de buitengewone editie van de EWCS 2021 en voor de voorbereiding van de vragenlijst voor de EWCS 2024. Haar onderzoeksinteresses omvatten arbeidsomstandigheden, kwaliteit van banen, het monitoren van arbeidsomstandigheden, werkorganisatie, gender, de toekomst van werk en tijd. Ze werkt al meer dan tien jaar op het gebied van Europese vergelijkende enquêtes, in alle aspecten, waaronder ontwerp, ontwikkeling van vragenlijsten, veldwerk, kwaliteitscontrole en analyse. Ze is afgestudeerd in economie en management aan de universiteiten Paris IX Dauphine en Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne en heeft een postdoctoraal diploma in statistiek van Trinity College Dublin. Ze heeft onlangs online cursussen over kunstmatige intelligentie afgerond: onderzoekend leiderschap met MIT Sloan Executive Education en 'Les grand enjeux de la transition: re-ouvrir l'horizon, comprendre pour agir' met de Campus de la Transition. Voordat ze bij Eurofound kwam, werkte ze een aantal jaren bij de Europese Commissie.
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