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Research report
30 March 2025

Psychosocial risks to workers' well-being: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic

Psychosocial risks represent a major challenge to the health and well-being of workers in the EU. While the COVID-19 pandemic intensified some of these risks, it also increased awareness of them among policymakers. Using data from the European Working Conditions Telephone Survey 2021 and building on a theoretical model that differentiates between job stressors and job resources, this report examines key psychosocial risks in the workplace and their impact on health. It also assesses job characteristics that could help to protect workers’ health and well-being in post-pandemic workplaces. While the prevalence of psychosocial risks varies across the Member States, work–life interference and work intensity are the most widespread risks in the EU, and the prevalence of the latter increased during the pandemic. Job stressors such as adverse social behaviour and job insecurity continue to be experienced by a significant proportion of workers in the EU. Although resources are available to combat some risks, these may not be sufficient, and preventive policies need to be implemented to prevent risks from arising in the first place.

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24 June 2025

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17 June 2025

Article

Shaping the future of work: Inside Europe’s hybrid work strategies

As ‘return-to-office’ mandates continue to fuel debate about the future of work, the concept of a hybrid workplace – once a stopgap in the pandemic – has become a permanent feature of many organisations. But while the term ‘hybrid work’ is now well known, how it is implemented in practice, and what it means for job quality and organisational performance, remains anything but uniform.

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17 June 2025

Article

Shaping the future of work: Inside Europe’s hybrid work strategies

As ‘return-to-office’ mandates continue to fuel debate about the future of work, the concept of a hybrid workplace – once a stopgap in the pandemic – has become a permanent feature of many organisations. But while the term ‘hybrid work’ is now well known, how it is implemented in practice, and what it means for job quality and organisational performance, remains anything but uniform.

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16 May 2025

Article

Employment in the EU’s automotive sector

In 2024, the automotive sector in the EU came to the fore in public and policy discussions. The focus was on the slowdown in electric vehicle (EV) sales, rising global competition, belated investments in new technologies, and the potential closure of production lines in Europe.

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16 April 2025

Digital story

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30 March 2025

Research report

Psychosocial risks to workers' well-being: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic

Psychosocial risks represent a major challenge to the health and well-being of workers in the EU. While the COVID-19 pandemic intensified some of these risks, it also increased awareness of them among policymakers. Using data from the European Working Conditions Telephone Survey 2021 and building on a theoretical model that differentiates between job stressors and job resources, this report examines key psychosocial risks in the workplace and their impact on health. It also assesses job characteristics that could help to protect workers’ health and well-being in post-pandemic workplaces. While the prevalence of psychosocial risks varies across the Member States, work–life interference and work intensity are the most widespread risks in the EU, and the prevalence of the latter increased during the pandemic. Job stressors such as adverse social behaviour and job insecurity continue to be experienced by a significant proportion of workers in the EU. Although resources are available to combat some risks, these may not be sufficient, and preventive policies need to be implemented to prevent risks from arising in the first place.

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Representativeness of the European social partner organisations: Graphical sector

October 2025

This study provides information allowing for an assessment of the representativeness of the actors involved in the European sectoral social dialogue committee for the graphical industry. Their relative representativeness legitimises their right to be consulted, their role and effective participation

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Research reports constitute a specific output from a research project or projects, including the main findings and analysis, key messages, policy pointers and methodological information. Inputs may include literature reviews, comparative analytical reports and in-house or commissioned research.

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Policy briefs present policy pointers from a research project or to deliver facts and figures relevant to a policy debate in a concise format highly accessible to the key target audience of policymakers and their advisers. Each policy brief has a single subject and makes extensive use of data visualisation where possible.

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