When people begin to enter the workplace, the typical office job appears to be the ideal place to be. For instance, they don’t account for the many factors that go into the office workplace. Such things such as gender, as Beese and Birgit point out in their study of European office work. Birgit (2007) found that less than 12 percent of women make less than 3,500 euros a month, while upwards of 44 percent of men do. The discrepancy between these two groups of people convey how better paying jobs may not lead to better working conditions. Furthermore, the women do make up more than 50% of the workplace, yet they still are prevented from making larger decisions in the workplace overall. While working conditions are still being shifted as time progresses, there is still reason to believe improvement is always in the works.
Reference:
Birgit, B. (2007, September 23) EurWORK European Observatory of Working Life. Retrieved April 30, 2018 from
https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/observatories/eurwork/articles/quality-of-working-conditions-in-office-work