Vantaggi
The good thing about jobs at Eurofound is that you are employed in the public sector, thus, there are decent benefits possible. The topic being researched is valuable.
Svantaggi
The experience of individual employees depends heavily on the people in the unit and in project teams. One can get rather unlucky with that, and end up with a boss who would never greet you, colleagues who talk down and shame other employees, and humiliating behaviour from those above.
Eurofound calls itself a research organisation, but really what it does is quantitative data collection. There is little engagement with the actual meaning behind the data and the people do not seem passionate about the topics they work on. Rather, they are caught up in the nice life they live collecting data on actual people that are oftentimes not from well-off backgrounds, like most Eurofound employees seem to be. There is no acknowledgement of the fact that Eurofound employees are living an incredibly privileged life and have largely done so before their time at Eurofound too. This is concerning considering that Eurofound aims to 'improve the living and working conditions' of all while being completely detached from what the life of average people looks like.