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How can we adapt to a new world of work while ensuring quality jobs and fair labour mobility? At #EUSocialForum, @lindrssn MEP highlighted Eurofound’s research on job quality and working conditions, stressing the importance of looking beyond the averages to truly understand how Europe’s labour markets are evolving and what working conditions look like across Member States. 📊 While we see encouraging improvements in job quality across Europe, significant inequalities remain. Different regions face very different challenges, and addressing these disparities is essential for truly inclusive progress 🤲 This focus is at the heart of our European Working Conditions Survey, whose findings will be published in an Overview Report next month and presented in Brussels on 21 April.

Today marks an important step forward in enhancing access to and collaboration around research insights on #fairtransition, #skillsdevelopment, and #labourmarket across the EU. The European Commission’s Directorate‑General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Eurofound, @cedefop, EU-OSHA, ETF and ELA to develop a shared data platform that will feed into the Fair Transition Observatory and the Skills Intelligence Observatory. 🇪🇺 📊This joint platform will bring information together in one place, improving visibility, ensuring consistency, and making it easier for users to access high‑quality, reliable insights. 🤝 Eurofound is proud to contribute to this collaborative effort to support access to consistent, comparable and evidence‑based data across Europe.

We’re delighted to welcome a delegation from the European Parliament’s EMPL Committee to our offices today! 🇪🇺 Led by @lindrssn MEP, chair of the Committee, the visit brings together senior MEPs from across political groups, offering a valuable opportunity to exchange views and strengthen cooperation on EU employment and social policy. Together, we’re discussing the future of work: working conditions, job quality, skills and training, AI in the workplace, new ways of working, psychosocial risks and key sectoral challenges. We’re also showcasing our monitoring tools and exploring topics such as restructuring, minimum wages, pay transparency, quality of life and living conditions, including disability rights and the Child Guarantee 📊🤝

📣 Just published: 'Algorithmic control: How digital surveillance is shaping online platform work in Europe', by Dragoș Adăscăliței A new Eurofound–ELA survey shines a light on the largely invisible workforce powering online labour platforms (from software developers and online teachers to micro‑taskers). 🕰️ 78% of online platform workers report constant time tracking 💬 67% say their communications are monitored 🖥️ 53% experience screen surveillance Algorithmic management isn’t just shaping tasks: it’s shaping entire working conditions. And as platform work grows, so does the need to understand and debate the implications of this digital oversight.

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