Weber, Tina
Does the new telework generation need a right to disconnect?
03 December 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.
ERM report 2020: Restructuring across borders
10 November 2020
This report has a dual focus. First, it reviews recent restructuring activity in the EU, from January 2019 up to and including the first impacts of the COVID-19 crisis. The second part presents an analysis of transnational restructuring cas...
Representativeness of the European social partner organisations: Education sector
15 October 2020
This study provides information allowing for an assessment of the representativeness of the actors involved in the European sectoral social dialogue committee for the education sector. Their relative representativeness legitimises their rig...
Role of social partners in tackling discrimination at work
31 August 2020
This report assesses the role of the social partners in tackling workplace discrimination. Against the background of EU and national anti-discrimination legislation, it highlights the extent to which the need to tackle discrimination on dif...
Regulations to address work–life balance in digital flexible working arrangements
- Tempo de trabalho
- Work organisation
- Working conditions
- Conciliação entre a vida profissional e a vida familiar
- Novas formas de emprego
- Collective bargaining
- Agreements
- A era digital: oportunidades e desafios em matéria de trabalho e emprego
- Relações laborais
- Teleworking
- Labour and social regulation
- Antecipação e gestão do impacto da mudança
- Condições de trabalho e trabalho sustentável
- Relações laborais e diálogo social
02 July 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 June 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, ...
Can short-time working save jobs during the COVID-19 crisis?
05 May 2020
On 2 April, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced a new fund of up to €100 billion to support EU Member States to introduce short-time working or similar schemes, including for the self-employed, in an effort to safeguard jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Known as SURE (Support to mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency), the initiative will finance loans on favourable terms to EU countries facing a ‘sudden and severe’ rise in spending on such schemes and is designed to show EU solidarity with hard hit Member States and workers.
Economic downturns expose the vulnerability of a growing number of precarious workers
21 April 2020
Up to the start of 2020, recent EU economic and labour market trends were often discussed in terms of the periods before and after the Great Recession. It now appears likely that, in the short- to medium-term, the repercussions of that economic crisis will be dwarfed by the unfolding impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly on businesses and employment in the sectors most affected by the shutdown – not to speak of the cost in human lives.
Labour market change: Trends and policy approaches towards flexibilisation
- Platform work
- Non-standard employment
- Tempo de trabalho
- Structural change
- Novas formas de emprego
- Employment structure
- Mercados de trabalho inclusivos e funcionais
- Employment status
- Employment relationship
- Antecipação e gestão do impacto da mudança
- Labour market policies
- Emprego e mercados de trabalho
16 April 2020
What have been the major trends and policy developments regarding the flexibilisation of employment in recent years? Eurofound’s work programme for 2017–2020 set out to document and capture these changes in the world of work. This flags...
Telework and ICT-based mobile work: Flexible working in the digital age
- Health and well-being at work
- Platform work
- Tempo de trabalho
- Work organisation
- Working conditions
- Conciliação entre a vida profissional e a vida familiar
- Novas formas de emprego
- Employment relationship
- A era digital: oportunidades e desafios em matéria de trabalho e emprego
- Teleworking
- Antecipação e gestão do impacto da mudança
- Condições de trabalho e trabalho sustentável
16 January 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)...