The needs and expectations of European young workers

ï Young workers show quite a good morale Ö. 79% do, but in a moderate way (64% say their spirit is quite high, while only 15% show a very high spirit).

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ï Ö but they share a strong feeling that their situation is now more difficult to cope with than it was in the past : 61% claim that, compared with their parentsí generation, their daily life has become more difficult, and even much more difficult according to a third of them (32%)

ï They neither lack ideas, nor advice, but they lack time. Six out of ten young workers say they lack time (60%), while 38% lament a lack of opportunities and 30% a lack of energy. Some consider they lack help (14%), ideas (10%), and advice (8%).

ï Well-being and health and business life are the two main preoccupations of young workers. Their well-being and health rank first in the hierarchy (41%), ahead of their professional life (38%), their daily life and its unforeseen events (26%), their life at home (25%), formalities (18%) and their environment (18%).

ï Young workers encounter many difficulties: handling their spare time also is a source of problem. Respectively 62% and 42% of them declare that they find it difficult to take exercise regularly and to have a balanced diet, while public authorities remind us that these are public health imperatives. One out of two young workers (49%) also finds it difficult to take the time to do what they like.

ï Few can receive effective help from their relatives. Almost one in every three young workers even declares he could only obtain little help, or no help at all from his relatives in all the areas investigated within the framework of this survey.

ï The serenity displayed by Dutch young workersÖ In comparison with their European neighbours, few Dutch young workers consider that their daily life is more difficult than that of their parents (48%, against an average 61% for the seven countries surveyed). What is more, their morale is in good shape: 96% of them claim a good morale, of which 25% have very good morale. These figures are unequalled in all the other countries surveyed.

ï Öcontrasts with the dismay expressed by French and Italian young workers, who turn out to be the most fatalist in almost every investigated realm. French young wortkers are extremely disenchanted, for 78% of them think that their daily life is more difficult than that of their parents (against an average 61% for the seven countries surveyed). French young workers also are the only ones who claim as a majority that their daily life is much more difficult than that of their parents.

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