text: **Conditions of employment and workforce development**
  
  During the past decades and at faster pace after 1990, a**greater variety of non-standard contractual**
  **relations**has emerged. Typical characteristics of non-standard work are part-time work, temporary (or 
  fixed-term) work, seasonal work, casual work, home-based work, telework, self-employment or family 
  work. Currently, high public awareness is directed to those types of non-standard work that are 
  connected either to**new forms of contracts**(voucher, platform, zero-hours, portfolio, etc.) or increasing 
  **types of work not bound to the premises of the employer**(mobile, at home, at client’s place), mostly 
  made possible by the increased use of modern information and communication technologies (ICT). 
  These forms of work often have as a — additional — major characteristic a**less clear employer–**
  **worker relationship**. 
  
  However, in 2019 the conventional employment contract still accounted for around 86% of the workforce 
  (EU27), 9% are ‘own-account’ workers, that is, self-employed without employees. The remaining 4% 
  were self-employed with employees (employers) and less than 1% were contributing family workers. Of 
  all employed workers, 17.2% worked part-time and 13.3% had temporary contracts. 