Working conditions in the time of COVID-19: Implications for the future
Botey Gaude, Laura ; Cabrita, Jorge ; Eiffe, Franz Ferdinand ; Gerstenberger, Barbara ; Ivaškaitė-Tamošiūnė, Viginta ; Parent-Thirion, Agnès ; Peruffo, Eleonora ; Weber, Tina ; White, Christopher
Publications Office of the European Union - Luxembourg
2022
139 p.
epidemic disease ; working conditions ; skill ; training ; working time ; working poor ; telework ; sustainable development ; work-life balance ; well being ; decent work
Working conditions
https://doi.org/10.2806/056613
English
Bibliogr.
"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."
Digital
ISBN (PDF) : 978-92-897-2294-0
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