WSI-Mitteilungen

The regulations on working from home established during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown offered many employees a level of flexibility that they did not want to give up after the pandemic ended. But how do companies feel about flexible working...

The quality of work in occupations related to social work, healthcare and education is a key issue in light of the ongoing shortage of skilled workers in these systemically relevant fields, which has received increased public attention since the...

This study examines whether the expanding option of working from home (WFH) served as a resource for female and male caregivers over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. For caregivers, WFH offered potential benefits such as greater work autonomy,...

Questions of mobile work and changes in industrial relations have rarely been investigated to date. This article therefore deals with the question of how works councils are challenged by mobile work and how their practices change over time in...