… premises can help to facilitate better work–life balance. Workers report shorter commuting times, greater working time … always work at their employer’s premises, highly mobile workers (i.e. with very extensive use of technology and no … how technology-based flexibility supports or undermines workers’ work–life balance. Again, the focus is on the ICT …
… for companies to modernise their work organisation and for workers to reconcile work with other aspects of their lives. … On the other hand, some new forms of employment deprive workers of much of the traditional labour and social … women and 88 % of men ICT specialists are employees; ICT workers are more likely to work a standard 40-hour week than …
… technologies and their capacity to replace or complement workers in an ever-broadening range of tasks. The spread of … proven feasible to automate (JRC, 2020b), enabling some workers to focus on more creative aspects of their work, … to be reorganised and technology will completely replace workers in some instances (Eurofound, 2020a). While digital …
… and growth or on the challenges it presents for workers, businesses and labour market regulation, paying only … capacity of machines to perform tasks previously done by workers (Autor, 2015; Frey and Osborne, 2017), encouraging … as new technologies increasingly replace or complement workers. Use of new technologies at work. With workers …
… work (European Parliament, 2016). Research shows that for workers, overall time dedicated to paid work has increased, … true for people in precarious employment, such as platform workers (see Chapter 9). Looking at the specific indicator … countries. In nine countries [1] , fewer than one in five workers engaged in any sporting, cultural or leisure …
… forgo adequate care entirely, relying instead on domestic workers in precarious working conditions or providing care … women from migrant backgrounds employed as domestic workers are often employed in irregular jobs with no access … COVID-19 crisis, which has seen thousands of migrant care workers (mostly women) return to their home countries ahead …
… in employment in the EU. As of May 2020, around 5 % of workers had permanently lost their job owing to the pandemic, … essential during the pandemic, which often exposed these workers to unprecedented workloads, health risks and work–life balance challenges. Around 7 of workers reported a large increase in their working hours …
… arrangements; for example, it introduced the new right for workers to take at least 5 working days of carer’s leave per … in the fact that the overwhelming majority of healthcare workers are women, yet they are absent from key … gender equality in relation to policies that support workers displaced by digitalisation; historically, such …