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Monthly labour participation and unemployment
Employed, unemployed and not included in labour force according to international definition by sex and age
Fewer people work outside office hours
In 2024, 2.3 million people in the Netherlands worked mostly or always in the evening, at night, or on weekends — 23 percent of the employed labour force.
Nearly 1 in 6 workers have stressful jobs
In 2024, 16 percent of workers were in demanding jobs with low autonomy.
Workers spend nearly 9 hours a day sitting
In 2024, workers in the Netherlands spent an average of 8.8 hours a day sitting.
SDG 8.2 Labour and leisure time
Recent data on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 8.2 Decent work and economic growth: Labour and leisure time. The second part of SDG 8 relates to the aim of giving everyone who wants to work the...
Together we stand: The impact of gender equality in the workplace on employees and firms in the Netherlands
Dissertation on the impact of gender composition in the workplace on wage and well-being of employees and financial performance of firms.
Work of nearly half of workers made easier by new technology
At the end of 2022, 47.5 percent of all workers who use new technology at work reported that this made their jobs easier
SDG 8.2 Labour and leisure time
Latest data on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 8 Decent work and economic growth: labour and leisure time. The themes under SDG 8.2 concentrate on how to give everybody who wants to work, the...
1 in 5 young workers experience work-related stress
Of all young people between the ages of 15 and 25 in paid employment, 21 percent reported regular or frequent work-related stress in 2021.
Non-standard employment: Prospect or precarity?
Dissertation on temporary work, examining the variation in outcomes of fixed-term contracts through a process-oriented approach, with a focus on the influence of economic, sociological, and HR...
Power dynamics at work: An ethnography of a multilingual metal foundry in the Dutch-German borderland
Dissertation on power dynamics and language diversity in a multilingual metal foundry in the Dutch-German border region, examining the impact of temporary work relations, language diversity, and...
Fewer concerns over job retention among employees
Employees are increasingly less concerned about retaining their jobs; 24% in 2016 and as much as 34% in 2013.
Employees feel less autonomous
According to the Netherlands Working Conditions Survey 2013, conducted by TNO and Statistics Netherlands, the percentage of employees in the Netherlands who say they can organise their own work has...
Share of teleworking employees growing
Over the past years, the share of employees working from home has risen to nearly one in three in 2012. Half of employees could take leave whenever they wanted and more than one in five could set...
Jobs in health care demanding, but also rewarding
People working in the health care and welfare sector think their jobs are physically and emotionally demanding. They are nevertheless more than averagely pleased with their jobs.
More and more employees want to work to the age of 65
The share of employees in the Netherlands who say they want to work until they reach the age of 65 years has doubled in the space of four years: from 21 percent in 2005 to 42 percent in 2009
SDG 8.2 Labour and leisure time
Latest data on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 8 Decent work and economic growth: labour and leisure time. The themes under SDG 8.2 concentrate on how to give everybody who wants to work, the...