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Europe: Working longer requires better working

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Europe: Working longer requires better working

The improvement of working conditions throughout a worker's career is 'a necessary condition' to enable workers to continue to work for as long as possible, a European think tank has concluded. The Dublin-based European Union research body Eurofound says the issue is of crucial importance as working lives are extended and the population ages. Its latest Foundation Focus publication reports new research data showing increasing levels of stress and work intensity. For Europeans, work intensity has increased over the past 20 years - more workers work at high speed, work to tight deadlines, or have their pace of work driven by more demands, Eurofound notes. It reports that in the European Union nearly 60 per cent of workers say that they have to work at very high speed for at least a quarter of their working time. It concludes that by reducing the physical strain of work as well as the stress caused by the intensity of work, workers are more likely to stay in their jobs longer.

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