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The study analyses recent trends in teleworking, its impacts on workers, employers, and society, and the challenges for policy-making. It provides an overview of the main legislative and policy measures adopted at EU and national level, in order to identify possible policy actions at EU level. The study is based on an extensive literature review, a web survey, interviews with representatives of European and national stakeholders, and five case studies of EU countries: Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy ...

The Budgetary Control Committee (CONT) organised the workshop on ‘Open spaces at EU institutions versus traditional work spaces: justification, evolution, evaluation and results’ on 29 October 2020. This document consists of the proceedings of the workshop, the briefing on ‘Open Plan Offices - The new ways of working’, biographies of the speakers and the PowerPoint slides of the presentations.

KEY FINDINGS Open office spaces are introduced for the following reason: - Saving costs on real estate. Real estate expenses are the second largest costs for a company. By creating more workplaces in the same amount of square meters costs can be reduced on buildings and maintenance. - Increase communication. If people are in closer proximity from one another and move around freely communication will increase. - Improve team work. As teams are now sharing the same space knowledge sharing will ...

L'amélioration de la santé et de la sécurité sur le lieu de travail est une question importante pour l'Union européenne depuis les années 80. Des normes minimales de protection des travailleurs ont été établies en vertu de la législation européenne, ce qui n'empêche pas les États membres de maintenir ou d'instaurer des mesures plus strictes. Lorsque le traité de Lisbonne est entré en vigueur, la charte des droits fondamentaux de l'Union européenne est devenue juridiquement contraignante et la politique ...

Economic and technical changes are redrawing the map of the world of work: new jobs are appearing while others are becoming obsolete, and atypical work patterns are replacing full-time work and open-ended contracts. In addition, work is increasingly being carried out on online platforms connecting buyers and sellers, or by large project teams across borders and time zones. Robotics and digitalisation raise new questions, as machines are progressively replacing the human workforce for routine tasks ...

The European Parliament is confronted by a number of challenging questions with regard to the future organisation of its work, and the ways in which this can be facilitated by Information and Communication Technology (ICT). This study is largely literature review-based. While the study is part of a broader exercise ambitiously entitled "MEP 2025", this investigation shows that the speed of change in both technology and democratic developments means that looking as far as a decade and a half ahead ...

Chaque groupe de travailleurs étudié (femmes, travailleurs âgés, travailleurs en situation de handicap, jeunes travailleurs, travailleurs migrants, travailleurs temporaires et travailleurs à bas niveau de qualification) rencontre des risques spécifiques de santé et sécurité au travail. Alors que l’Union européenne dispose d’un solide corpus législatif et d’une stratégie globale consacrée à la santé et à la sécurité des travailleurs, des actions supplémentaires pourraient être entreprises afin de ...

The study aims at better understanding the importance of Occupational Health and Safety (OSH) as a contributing factor to the economic viability of an organisation and looks into the potential effects of the proposals currently on the table for reducing administrative burdens in the field of health and safety at work. It considers the costs and benefits of compliance with OSH obligations, new and emerging risks and the need for new prevention measures to address these.

Harcèlement moral au travail: phénomène qui n'est pas un acte isolé mais une série d'actes semblables ou différents commis pendant une certaine période. L'étude examine la situation juridique dans les Etats membres de l'UE. Elle donne aussi des propositions pour lutter contre le harcèlement moral au travail de même qu'elle examine comment l'UE pourrait rendre effective ces mesures.