Hello and welcome to ETIP podcast, Voices on the World of Work.

I'm your host, Bianca Luna Fabris, and in this episode we will be hearing all about our latest

yearly flagship publication, benchmarking working Europe.

With Nicola Contouris, the research director here at the Institute, Anzotria Teodoropoulou,

she is head of economic, employment and social policies.

So first of all, Nicola Ansoiteria, welcome back to the podcast.

It's a pleasure to have you with me and with us today.

So let's dive right in the questions.

The new edition of the ETC-EI publication is out.

In a nutshell, Nicola, what has happened over the past year in the world of work?

Well, a lot has happened, but I think the real question is what has happened to the world of

work?

After all, this is the European Trade Union Institute, and this is a flagship publication.

And I think the world of work is in turmoil again. I mean, all you have to do is

stick your head outside the window in Paris, if you're lucky to be in Paris. And you can see

it with your own eyes. And I think it's increasingly obvious that all those grandiose promises

and slogans pronounced during the pandemic, I think we all remember them, you know, build back

better, investing in resilience, recovery and reconstruiting, rewarding key workers, nothing will be the

same, but quite a few of them when you think about it. They have not been delivered upon.

And instead, we have a cost of living crisis that reminds us of how fragile this economic system remains,

a system that is fundamentally anchored to the idea that labor is essentially a commodity,

a commodity whose needs need to be optimized and whose costs need to be reduced, for instance,

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