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European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)

 

European Company Survey 2009

Flexibility profiles of European companies [20 October 2010]

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef1060.htm

or

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2010/60/en/1/EF1060EN.pdf

[full-text, 45 pages]

 



Author:            Kerkhofs, Marcel; Román, Amelia; Ester, Peter

 

Summary:        This report analyses European corporate practices in terms of working time flexibility as revealed by the European Company Survey 2009 (ECS 2009). Flexibility in working time is a central aspect of ongoing debates regarding boosting employment in the EU. Enabling employees to better balance their working time and domestic reponsibilities is seen as a key way of encouraging more citizens to enter and remain in the workforce. At the same time, greater working time flexibility on the part of companies – and hence, employees – can enable European enterprises to be more responsive to market demands, so boosting the Union's competitiveness. An executive summary is available.

 

Contents

vii

Foreword v

Executive summary 1

Introduction 5

Chapter 1: Constructing a flexibility typology 7

Selection of indicators for the typology 9

Chapter 2: Flexibility profiles from the ECS 2009 11

Cluster flexibility practices 12

Comparison with ESWT typology 14

Chapter 3: Flexibility of companies across Europe 15

Country distribution 15

Regional distribution 16

Cluster prevalence by index number 19

Chapter 4: Flexibility profiles and company characteristics 21

Sector 21

Company size 22

Other characteristics 22

Chapter 5: Flexibility profiles and performance 25

Financial situation 25

Labour productivity 26

Staffing and general work climate 27

Conclusions 29

Bibliography 31

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