More than three billion people are at work across the globe, and it takes up a huge chunk of the time humans spend on this planet. Policymakers say they want to see 'more and better jobs' or 'decent work for all' but are good jobs expanding, and if so for whom? Or are bad jobs taking over?...

Technological advancements and organizational restructuring have been linked to increased work intensification through longer workdays, increased responsibility, and increased pressure to meet high standards. Work intensification can have several negative effects such as the increase in...

The hybrid work environment significantly undermines the social well-being of employees in the workplace. Existing research predominantly addresses academics' well-being challenges without offering practical strategies to counter these issues. This study identifies strategies that higher...

Institutions representing the workers' voice have long been a contentious topic in the economic literature. Against a backdrop of inconclusive evidence and limited use of credible identification strategies, we study the impact of the 2015 policy change that introduced mandatory board-level...

Purpose: This study investigates the relationship between flexible working arrangements (FWAs), employee experiences (EEs), and perceived productivity (PP) in the context of New Zealand employees. The study aims to understand how opportunities and challenges within FWAs impact employee...

The European Union (EU) is strongly committed to ensuring equal opportunities and removing economic and social barriers for people with disabilities, as demonstrated by, among other measures, the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD)...

This paper provides a synthesis of high-level recommendations and guidance for developing a HCWF crisis strategy, introducing a complex set of measurements that consider the needs of both health systems and individual HCWs, as well as interventions on different levels of governance and in...

This paper provides a synthesis of high-level recommendations and guidance for developing a HCWF crisis strategy, introducing a complex set of measurements that consider the needs of both health systems and individual HCWs, as well as interventions on different levels of governance and in...

The rise of app-based work in the gig economy, particularly within the food delivery sector, challenges traditional employment paradigms and raises questions about the potential for achieving meaningful work experiences. This study explores whether such work can be considered meaningful for food...

Globalization, digital transformation, and organizational changes have led to significant transformations in the world of work, substantially increasing workloads, which can result in high levels of stress and burnout among employees. The main objective of this study was to investigate the...

Drawing on 12 case studies across 10 countries of how trade unions and collective bargaining institutions supported front-line workers in healthcare, social care and food retail, this article finds that pre-existing or new collective bargaining or social dialogue forums provided important...

We use a micro-level dataset for workers from 22 European countries to assess whether technological exposure affects the relationship between global value chains (GVCs) and working conditions, quantified by several aspects of job quality and wages. We compare the effects across types of...

To investigate whether, along with economic growth, the Republic of Korea has become a better place for workers, we examine trends in seven job quality dimensions between 2006 and 2020 and find that the relevant mean values changed in opposite directions. The largest rise was in Working Time...

This paper aims at making modest attempts to find out the relationship between (1) workplace decent work environmental components and workers' general health well-being and (2) decent work-derived general health well-being of the workers and their chance of participating in occupational health...

The European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) shows progress in many dimensions of job quality. There has been a reduction in working hours and more workers have access to flexible working time arrangements, leading to an overall improvement in working time quality. More workers are able to grow...

The European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) shows progress in many dimensions of job quality. There has been a reduction in working hours and more workers have access to flexible working time arrangements, leading to an overall improvement in working time quality. More workers are able to grow...

We investigate how much individuals value a workplace that doesn't tolerate hostility, and how these preferences affect sorting in the labor market. We conduct a choice experiment involving 2,048 participants recruited from recent graduates and alumni from a large public university. Our results...

This systematic literature review explores the junction of workplace well-being, digital capacity, and innovation performance in reaction to increasing calls for ethical innovation and sustainable business practices. With specific focus on Asia and China, the review draws on 48 peer-reviewed...

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the impact of digital technologies on work and occupations in Europe, critically reassessing dominant narratives of mass unemployment and job polarisation. The report synthesises work done by the JRC Employment team over the last years. Drawing on...