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Agnès Parent-Thirion

Agnès Parent-Thirion

Senior Research Manager at Eurofound, leading the European Working Conditions Survey

May 29, 2026

11:18
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?
11:29
Well, first of all, it's, uh, comparative, and I think it's at the heart of the survey.
11:35
We started the survey with an idea that it was a tool for many member states that we were developing.
11:41
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.
11:55
So we basically, um, the way to do this was to think what's universal? And what's universal is health.
12:02
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.
12:14
And then we invest a lot in the quality, uh, of the survey in Eurofound, and that's what makes it very different.

15 MINS LATER

27:43
So talk to me in three.

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