Working life research

Jorge Cabrita

Senior research manager

Jorge Cabrita är senior forskningschef vid Working Life-enheten. Han ansvarar för att formulera, samordna och leda europeisk forskning samt främja spridningen av resultat inom arbetsvillkor och arbetsmarknadsrelationer. Hans huvudsakliga forskningsområden inkluderar arbetsvillkor och arbetskvalitet, arbetstid och balans mellan arbete och privatliv, arbetstagares hälsa och välbefinnande, jämställdhet samt de socioekonomiska effekterna av övergången till en klimatneutral ekonomi. Han leder för närvarande forskning om arbetstidsutveckling samt social dialog och kollektivavtal under COVID-19-pandemin. Tidigare arbetade han som forskare vid Centre for Studies for Social Intervention och vid Research Centre on the Portuguese Economy vid Lissabons ekonomiska skola, samt som utbildare och konsult inom områdena strategisk ledning, organisatorisk kommunikation, ledarskap och teambuilding. Han har en kandidatexamen i ekonomi och en magisterexamen i socio-organisatoriska system för ekonomisk aktivitet från Lissabons ekonomiska skola.

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Hälsa och välbefinnande

Kvalitet i arbetet

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Att arbeta i AI:s tidsålder – Hur förändras arbetsvillkoren i Europa?

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DatumTuesday, 21 April 2026

PlatsBryssel, Europaparlamentet

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15 December 2025

Poddavsnitt

Är Europas psykiska hälsa fortfarande i kris?

Den psykiska hälsan i Europa står vid ett avgörande vägskäl. Även om vissa indikatorer har förbättrats sedan pandemin visar en ny rapport från Eurofound på oroväckande tendenser, bland annat ett oroväckande stopp för den decennier långa minskningen av självmordstalen. I det här avsnittet av Eurofound Talks talar Mary McCaughey med forskningschefen Hans Dubois om denna komplexa fråga och betonar att psykisk ohälsa i oproportionerligt hög grad drabbar utsatta grupper.

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16 October 2024

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Innebär klimatförändringarna att arbetet blir farligare i Europa?

Klimatförändringarna är en realitet i vår vardag i Europa. Arbetstagarna upplever effekterna av klimatförändringarna och klimatförändringspolitiken på många sätt, både direkt och indirekt, från att arbeta i värme och uppleva större exponering för UV-strålning, till nya arbetsmiljörisker och behovet av utbildning och omskolning. I det här avsnittet av Eurofound Talks samtalar Mary McCaughey med Eurofound-forskarna Agnès Parent-Thirion, Tina Weber och Jorge Cabrita om i vilken utsträckning klimatförändringarna redan påverkar arbetsvillkoren och arbetsmarknaden i Europa, den gröna omställningens roll och hur politiken kan bidra till att skydda arbetstagare och arbetsplatser.

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22 November 2023

Blogginlägg

Healthy social dialogue for a healthy healthcare sector

The COVID-19 pandemic made us acutely aware of how dependent our society is on certain essential workers. We felt deep gratitude towards workers in healthcare especially, because they worked ceaselessly in often-difficult conditions. But this most valued of sectors is in danger of failing society’s needs in the future because of growing labour shortages. Working conditions in healthcare are increasingly challenging, pushing highly qualified staff out of the sector and deterring new entrants. How to tackle this bleak situation? Social dialogue and collective bargaining played a crucial role in ensuring the effective functioning of hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic. Could social dialogue be the solution to maintaining and building a health sector workforce for the 3D transition (digitalisation, decarbonisation and the demographic shift)?

24 October 2023

Poddavsnitt

How did Europe treat its essential workers?

In this episode of Eurofound Talks Mary McCaughey speaks with Eurofound Research Manager Jorge Cabrita about new research that highlights poor job quality - including high emotional demands, working at high speed and to tight deadlines - among several of the sectors and professions deemed essential, key or critical during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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8 March 2023

Poddavsnitt

The work-life challenges of women and men

In this episode of Eurofound Talks, recorded for International Women's Day 2023, Mary McCaughey speaks with Eurofound Working Life researchers Jorge Cabrita and Viginta Ivaškaitė-Tamošiūnė about how, when paid and unpaid work are combined, women do eight full-time weeks more work than men per year, and the broader implications of this for society. They also discuss how indicators of work-life balance and work-life conflict differ for women and men, as well as the policy action that can be taken to improve gender equality in Europe.

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31 March 2020

Blogginlägg

COVID-19 intensifies emotional demands on healthcare workers

Health professionals – doctors, nurses, nursing assistants, paramedics, ambulance workers – are in the vanguard of the battle against COVID-19. They are the ones dealing with sick people, triaging, testing and treating them. They are the ones confronting suffering and death. While some of their colleagues have already lost their lives in this battle, health professionals worldwide are emphasising the impact the mounting number of COVID-19 cases is having on their mental health.

1 November 2017

Blogginlägg

Rethinking working time in Europe

The results of recent research on working time patterns in the EU constitute a strong plea for working time policies that clearly acknowledge the life course perspective. This means that working time must not only be thought and organised in daily, weekly, monthly and/or yearly terms but also take into full consideration the different stages of our lives.

4 March 2016

Blogginlägg

The importance of collective bargaining in establishing working time in Europe

Nowadays we all know that long or excessive working hours may have serious negative impacts on a person’s health and wellbeing. Eurofound‘s new report 'Working time developments in the 21st century' suggests that if working time standards are mainly left to legislation or to be set unilaterally by employers, people will still tend to work longer hours. On the contrary, if the working time standards are negotiated through collective bargaining, the likely negative impact is less as people tend to work fewer hours on average.

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Angelina Atanasova

Research support officer

Christine Aumayr-Pintar

Senior research manager

Elena Biaggi

Temporary research support officer

Theodor Bjork

Research trainee

Sapho Briand

Project administration and communication support coordinator

Ettore Bucci

Project manager for the Social Dialogue Network

Daphné Chédorge-Farnier

Temporary research support officer

Victoria Cojocariu

Research officer

Franz Ferdinand Eiffe

Research manager

Barbara Gerstenberger

Head of Unit

Manuel Gómez Martín

Administrative assistant

Sara Grubanov-Boskovic

Research officer

Peter Kerckhofs

Senior research manager

Fiona Lescure

Research trainee

Sophia MacGoris

Surveys officer

Pietro Malacalza

Research assistant

Agnès Parent-Thirion

Senior research manager

Styliani Patseli

Research trainee

Sara Riso

Senior research manager

Mária Sedláková

Research officer

Oscar Vargas Llave

Senior research manager

Valeria Virgili

Temporary research support officer

Tina Weber

Senior research manager