The European Company Survey – First Findings (Résumé)
Published: 30 May 2011
In spring 2009, Eurofound launched a large-scale representative survey addressed to managers and employee representatives. The European Company Survey 2009 – Flexibility practices and social dialogue (ECS) is the second European-wide establishment survey launched by Eurofound. The European Company Survey documents flexibility strategies of firms and it is a unique source of comparative information on social dialogue at the workplace. Previous research at Eurofound has shown that companies use different flexibility practices not in isolation but in combination. The survey studied different measures of internal and external quantitative and qualitative flexibility.
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978-92-897-0860-9
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EF0997
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978-92-897-0860-9
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TJ-32-09-180-EN-C
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European Company Survey 2009 - Overview
The European Company Survey 2009 on flexibility practices and social dialogue is the second European-wide establishment survey to be undertaken by Eurofound. The survey documents flexibility strategies in firms and is a unique source of comparative information on social dialogue at the workplace. According to management and employee representatives in 27,000 public and private establishments across Europe, working time flexibility is the most common type of flexibility available in European companies. More than half of all establishments with 10 or more employees in the EU27 use some type of flexi-time arrangement. This reflects a substantial increase on the situation four years ago as measured in the first European Company Survey, which covered 21 countries.
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