This paper investigates changes in the task content, methods and tools of European jobs from 1995 to 2015. Drawing on the taxonomy of tasks proposed by Bisello and Fernández-Macías (2016), this work tries to better understand whether changes in the average intensity of tasks performance are...

This technical report presents the results of a qualitative survey conducted in April and May 2020 with 25 workers who worked in the telework regime - either full-time or part-time - during the lock-down period following the epidemic of Covid-19 in Italy. The report analyses the consequences of...

This study aims at better understanding how the massive shift to telework following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020 affected workers' jobs and lives. In particular, we shed light on how this exogenous change had an impact on tasks content and work organisation dimensions...

The use of software algorithms to automate organisational functions traditionally carried out by human managers has been termed "algorithmic management" and identified in both platform work and conventional employment settings. Algorithmic management has been researched in greatest detail in the...

Whereas there are recent papers on the effect of robot adoption on employment and wages, there is no evidence on how robots affect non-monetary working conditions. We explore the impact of robot adoption on several domains of non-monetary working conditions in Europe over the period 1995-2005...