Attractive jobs: some reflections based on findings from the European Working Conditions Survey
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This document discusses factors that influence the attractiveness and sustainability of jobs. It summarizes findings from the European Working Conditions Survey on different dimensions of job quality including employment security, health and well-being, skills development, and work-life balance. Key determinants of sustainable work mentioned are job autonomy, work intensity, work-life balance, cognitive job content, social support, and intrinsic rewards. However, exposure to risks, job insecurity, and violence/harassment are linked to lower sustainability. The document also includes charts on the percentage of workers able to work until age 60 across European countries and levels of worker involvement in improving work organization.
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Attractive jobs: some reflections based on findings from the European Working Conditions Survey
- 1. Attractive jobs: some reflections based on findings from the European Working Conditions Survey Greet Vermeylen Eurofound, surveys and trends unit Labour market shortages in a period of unemployment Brussels, 16 November 2011
- 2. Different dimensions of quality of work and employment HAVING A JOB WITH FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS & EMPLOYMENT SECURITY • Employment status • Wages • Access to social protection PROTECTING HEALTH • Workers rights & WELL-BEING USING and • Health and safety ACQUIRING outcomes SKILLS • Exposure to risks •Initial education • Participation QWE •Cognitive content • Occupational Health of work and Safety prevention •Training & lifelong framework BALANCING WORK with learning • Healthy work NON WORK LIFE •Career development organisation • Organisation of working time •Learning • blurring fronteers between organisation work and private life • Social infrastructures and provisions
- 3. Why are some jobs more/less attractive? • Job, work, employment -> working conditions: interactions between job and individual in an environment • ‘Attractiveness’? It’s the combination of different elements which make certain jobs more/less attractive -> multidimensional aspects of quality of work and employment In EWCS: only those who are currently in employment -> look at sustainability of work
- 4. Sustainable work? • being able and willing to do the job until 60 Important determinants: • autonomy plays its protective role, work intensity its deterrent role. Karasek is important (job strain - / active jobs +) • work-life balance Incl working time autonomy • cognitive dimensions of work • involvement in workplace organisation/innovation • social support from colleagues and managers • But also important : intrinsic rewards • violence and harassment, exposure to ergonomic risks, job insecurity associated with lower levels of job sustainability
- 5. 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% NL DE IE DK UK SE FI CY IT EE EU27 LV BE AT RO LT CZ MT SK LU BG PL Able to work at 60, by country ES HU FR EL PT SI
- 6. 0% 100% 10% 20% 30% 40% 90% 50% 60% 70% 80% Netherlands Ireland Denmark Kosovo Always Malta Norway Slovenia Estonia Greece Cyprus FYROM Sweden Finland Most of the time United Kingdom France Romania Luxembourg Belgium Albania Spain Montenegro Sometimes Italy Latvia Portugal Rarely Czech Republic Croatia Austria Hungary Poland Bulgaria Never Lithuania Turkey Germany Slovakia Involvement in improving work organisation
- 8. Feeling of one’s work well done, by job satisfaction, 2010, EU27 (%) 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% Rarely or never 50% Sometimes Always or most of the time 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Very satisfied Satisfied Not very Not at all satisfied satisfied