Manufacturing and engineering survey reports

This is the fifth national survey of EEF member organisations looking at their experience of sickness absence and rehabilitation.

One of the major issues facing most advanced economies around the world, and indeed some of the emerging ones, is how to cope with the implications of an ageing population.

We surveyed over 200 manufacturing companies at the end of 2007, investigating how they viewed challenges posed by low-cost countries and how they were responding to them.

Our annual report marks another year of strong performance by manufacturing, although the economic environment is becoming more challenging. Our survey shows that manufacturing performed strongly with a number of the indicators at their highest level for ten years.

EEF Management and Professional Engineers’ Pay Survey has been in operation for six years and consistently produces high-quality benchmarking pay data.

This report presents the results of EEF's energy survey for 2007.

EEF's on-going survey of the economic climate for businesses in engineering, manufacturing and technology-based industries.

This is the fourth national survey of EEF member organisations looking at sickness absence and rehabilitation.

EEF Management and Professional Engineers’ Pay Survey has been in operation for five years and has consistently produced high quality benchmarking pay data.

EEF has conducted energy surveys for three consecutive years. This reflects concern from member companies about price rises and the potential for disruption to supply when demand hits a peak.

This is the third national survey of EEF member organisations looking at sickness absence and rehabilitation. 622 organisations, with a total of 121,277 employees, responded to the survey.

EEF's 2005 survey of absence in the workplace reveals that sickness absence is a growing threat to UK business.

EEF's survey reveals the extent of recent increases in energy costs and identifies the measures that companies are taking to reduce the impact of higher utility bills.

In this second comprehensive survey of EEF members' experience of insurance costs, EEF looks at how the market has changed and the challenges that remain.

Pay Bulletin is EEF's comprehensive survey of pay settlements in over 400 of our member companies.