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Looking at the other side: working conditions in Portuguese courts

2024; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 20; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s1744552324000028

1744-5531

João Paulo Dias, Paula Casaleiro, Conceição Gomes, Fernanda Jesus, Teresa Maneca Lima, Filipa Queirós, Ana Paula Relvas, Luciana Sotero, Marina Pessoa Henriques, Luca Verzelloni,

Workaholism, burnout, and well-being

Abstract QUALIS is a research project that studies ‘the other side of courts’ by looking at the working conditions of judicial professions in Portugal and their impacts on the profession, health, family and personal life. The objective of this article is to provide an overview of the results obtained, based mainly on the interviews and the online questionnaire administered to the Portuguese judicial professions (judges, public prosecutors and court clerks). The questionnaire was sent to all professionals (more than 10,000) working in the courts and had a good response rate; the interviews were conducted among the three judicial professions. The article focuses on three main dimensions of working conditions, namely physical environment, working time and work intensity, and work/social environment of professionals working at first instance courts. It will make then a further analysis of their impacts in the health and well-being and in the work-family conflict of the judicial professionals.