Understanding work, your own included

Holding several posts may broaden skills or multiply constraints. Surveys make it possible to distinguish the two configurations.

Three separate bodies were merged into one. The debate turns less on the principle than on the number of representatives and their specialisation.

Removing assigned desks allows the leased floor area to be reduced. Effects on the work itself are less studied than the property argument suggests.

French law requires employers to monitor the workload of staff on annual-day contracts. No reference instrument says how.

Setting a target changes behaviour in the direction of the target, including when that was not the intention. The mechanism has been documented since the 1970s.

About one employee in five works outside usual hours in Europe. The documented effects concern health; those on social life far less so.

A few firms have abolished their titles and their bosses. The rare documented cases show that power shifts rather than disappears.

France wrote it into the labour code in 2016. The text creates an obligation to negotiate rather than a directly applicable rule.

Continuous measurement of activity has spread far beyond warehouses. The law frames these systems through old principles applied to new tools.

Studying medical errors, a researcher found that the best teams reported more of them. The explanation founded an entire field.

His name has served as an insult for a century. The content of his texts is more precise, and stranger, than the word now covers.