
Agnès Parent-Thirion
Senior Research Manager at Eurofound, leading the European Working Conditions Survey
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May 29, 2026
Behind the scenes of the European Working Conditions Survey
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Mary McCaugheyHOST
So to come back to, to why that would be that we would consider this survey the, the most comprehensive but also this unique survey, what are the key elements, Agnès?

Agnès Parent-ThirionGUEST
Well, first of all, it's, uh, comparative, and I think it's at the heart of the survey.

Agnès Parent-ThirionGUEST
We started the survey with an idea that it was a tool for many member states that we were developing.

Agnès Parent-ThirionGUEST
So we've been looking at how to measure working conditions which wouldn't, uh, in question, which wouldn't address like national legislation or which wouldn't be too specific to an occupation or a country.

Agnès Parent-ThirionGUEST
So we basically, um, the way to do this was to think what's universal? And what's universal is health.

Agnès Parent-ThirionGUEST
And we've used a lot of the work that has been, uh, taken on on work and health.To develop our questions so that we had, um, somehow a thermometer that would be more or less comparable.

Agnès Parent-ThirionGUEST
And then we invest a lot in the quality, uh, of the survey in Eurofound, and that's what makes it very different.
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