Yearly archives: 2017

Since 1991, Eurofound has been monitoring working conditions in Europe through its European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS). The survey aims to measure working conditions across European countries, analyse the relationships between different aspects of these, identify groups at risk, highlight issues of concern and areas of progress and, ultimately, contribute to developing EU policy aimed at improving job quality. In 2015, the sixth EWCS interviewed almost 44,000 workers (both employees and self-employed people) in 35 European countries: the 28 EU Member States, the five EU candidate countries, and Norway and Switzerland. Workers were asked a range of questions concerning employment status, work organisation, learning and training, working time duration and organisation, physical and psychosocial risk factors, health and safety, work–life balance, worker participation, earnings and financial security, as well as work and health. 2017 Update 6th European Working Conditions Survey – Eurofound

2017 Update 6th European Working Conditions Survey – Eurofound

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Over the past decade, focus has expanded beyond physical health and safety risks towards a more encompassing ‘well-being at work’ approach associated with psychosocial factors. This is consistent with the World Health Organization (WHO) definition of health as ‘a state of wellbeing’. The focus on well-being includes psychosocial risk factors that may cause both psychological and physical diseases. Absences and, in the most serious cases, incapacity to work are the main effects of poor health and well-being, while poor personal motivation at work negatively affects firms’ performance because of lower productivity and increased turnover. Violence and harassment at work are increasingly seen as an important part of the psychosocial risk factors affecting individual health and well-being. 2015.02 Violence and harassment in European workplaces, Extent, impacts and policies – Eurofound

2015.02 Violence and harassment in European workplaces, Extent, impacts and ...

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We title this year’s report Rewriting the rules for the digital age because a principal characteristic of the new era is not merely change, but change at an accelerating rate, which creates new rules for business and for HR. Organizations face a radically shifting context for the workforce, the workplace, and the world of work. These shifts have changed the rules for nearly every organizational people practice, from learning to management to the definition of work itself. All business leaders have experienced these shifts, for good or for ill, in both their business and personal lives. Rapid change is not limited to technology, but encompasses society and demographics as well. Business and HR leaders can no longer continue to operate according to old paradigms. They must now embrace new ways of thinking about their companies, their talent, and their role in global social issues. 2017.03 Rewriting the rules for digital age – 2017 Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends

2017.03 Rewriting the rules for digital age – Deloitte, Global ...

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Information and communication technologies (ICT) and work location have been identified during a consultation exercise across Europe as the topics most likely to have the greatest impact on occupational safety and health (OSH) in the future and how it will be governed. ICT encompasses and enables a wide range of technologies with significant overall implications for the workforce and others affected by work activities. It is expected to fundamentally change where we work, how we work, who will work and how people will perceive work. The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) has, therefore, commissioned a foresight project on ICT and work location. 2017.05 Key trends and drivers of change in information and communication technologies and work location – EU OSHA

2017.05 Key trends and drivers of change in ICT and ...

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