This blog isn’t like the others and we purposely wanted it so. We interviewed John Parkhouse, our CEO, on a Thursday afternoon, one of those scattered sunny days of summer 2021. This is the story and the podcast as well. ***** Thursday afternoon. Mary is about to go on holiday. …
Meet Sebastien. He is 28 years old, born and raised in Luxembourg. He speaks French, Luxembourgish, English and Spanish – which he learnt during his Erasmus programme in Madrid. When he was in high school, he decided he wanted to be an economist. He found the idea of conducting research, …
Historically, gratitude has always been studied with people facing each other. But over the last 15 months or so, in the midst of a pandemic that may be fading but refuses to go away, we have had little or limited direct contact. Then, the fief of digital communication —videoconferences, voice messaging, …
Presque un an après le début d’une épidémie et d’une crise économique sans précédent, c’est en direction des plus bas revenus que le gouvernement luxembourgeois a décidé d’agir. En effet, avec une revalorisation de 2,8% du salaire social minimum, ce sont plus de 60 000 salariés qui verront leur salaire …
Nearly one year after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic –unheard-of by most of us– followed by an economic crisis, the Luxembourg government has decided to focus on helping the people whose income is more limited and may be living in a disadvantageous situation. Consequently, about 60 000 employees are …
There’s this very old myth related to work life. Once you step inside the office (both physically or virtually during these COVID-19 times), you should leave your feelings at the door. It’s a place for productivity, impartiality and efficiency, and feelings are seemingly contrary to these objectives. Reality isn’t really …
The fast-spreading COVID-19 makes some of us feel like we’re in a zombie apocalypse: limiting human contact, avoiding large crowds, and remaining behind closed doors to escape contamination. Almost straight out of a science-fiction movie or a dystopian novel, right? Not quite. The coronavirus is affecting each and every part …
The Human Resources (HR) function is spellbound by the times in which we live, ones of digital turmoil and societal change. Once any of these factors reaches critical mass, businesses are bound to pledge adherence —there isn’t another option anyway — and so must everything HR. The, “It’s just a …
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead, wrote the English novelist Graham Greene. Leaders preparing for tomorrow’s workforce face a world where the old preconceptions do not apply. Yesterday’s assumptions about how workers …
Intrapreneurship is a loaded word. It might sound very 21st-century, but its five syllables are older than that, and so is its meaning. The term “Intrapreneur” dates back to 1978, when Gifford Pinchot and Elizabeth Pinchot coined it in the book “Intra-Corporate Entrepreneurship” while attending Tarrytown School for Entrepreneurs in …
