Mandl, Irene
Working remotely: An overview of trends, opportunities, challenges and risks
09 mars 2021
Working remotely: An overview of trends, opportunities, challenges and risks
9 March 2021
Presentation by Irene Mandl, Head of unit - Employment, Eurofound
Charting a positive path for platform workers
24 februari 2021
While 2020 may come to be seen as the year platform work gathered pace and started to go mainstream – thanks in large part to COVID-19 containment measures sparking an increase in food and grocery delivery – 2021 could be the year that regulation of platform work is set in motion. The well-known taxi and delivery platforms, like Deliveroo and Free Now, have been criticised from their inception for applying conditions of employment that simultaneously deny their workers the entitlements of an employee and the autonomy enjoyed by the self-employed. But platform work need not be the job of last resort. It is fundamentally a new means of matching supply and demand for paid labour, and it could be an engine for innovation and employment growth. It’s time for policymakers to steer it along a path that better balances the interests of platforms and workers.
New forms of employment in Europe – How new is new?
15 december 2020
Standard employment is not simply being replaced by non-standard work; employment is becoming more diverse, and policy must accordingly become more tailored. The last decade has seen much public and policy debate on the future of work. Standard employment – permanent, full-time and subject to labour law – is still dominant in Europe, and non-standard work, with the exception of part-time work, has been growing only to a rather limited extent. But it is acknowledged more and more that something is happening in the European labour market that is not transparent from the data, that this is of increasing importance, and that it is influencing the quality of work and employment.
New forms of employment: 2020 update
15 december 2020
Although standard employment (generally full-time and permanent) remains the dominant employment type across the EU, European labour markets are increasingly characterised by a variety of different forms. These new forms of employment invol...
Back to the future: Policy pointers from platform work scenarios
21 september 2020
Platform work– the matching of supply and demand for paid labour through an online platform – is still small in scale but is expected to grow. Accordingly, it is important to anticipate the opportunities and risks related...
Labour market change: Trends and policy approaches towards flexibilisation
- Platform work
- Non-standard employment
- Arbetstid
- Structural change
- Nya anställningsformer
- Employment structure
- Välfungerande och inkluderande arbetsmarknader
- Employment status
- Employment relationship
- Att föregripa och hantera effekterna av förändring
- Labour market policies
- Sysselsättnings- och arbetsmarknader
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...
Priorities for a new Europe
03 mars 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.
Game-changing technologies: Transforming production and employment in Europe
22 januari 2020
Innovation and technological advancement are natural features of developed economies, and they are necessary to maintain and improve sustainable competitiveness in an era of globalisation. However, while most innovation tends to be incremen...
Telework and ICT-based mobile work: Flexible working in the digital age
- Att föregripa och hantera effekterna av förändring
- Den digitala åldern: möjligheter och utmaningar för arbete och sysselsättning
- Employment relationship
- Health and well-being at work
- Nya anställningsformer
- Platform work
- Teleworking
- Work organisation
- Balans mellan arbetsliv och privatliv
- Working conditions
- Arbetsvillkor och hållbart arbete
- Arbetstid
16 januari 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)...
Let’s move beyond platitudes on platform work
17 oktober 2019
It feels like every day there are new articles or blog posts about how Uber drivers are exploited, or on the bad working conditions and safety standards for Deliveroo riders. In an era of ‘fake news’ can we trust that these are accurate? They most likely are, and I agree that things are not all rosy with regards to employment and working conditions of platform workers. But we should be careful with generalising from such messages that all platform work is bad.