Written in collaboration with Amélie Bazin, member of The Blog Team A park in Luxembourg – Early morning No matter the weather—rain or shine—Sarah and Daniel had a standing tradition: longtime friends since their university days, they met every Friday morning before work for a Nordic walk through the park, …
Written in collaboration with Amélie Bazin and Carla Santos, members of The Blog Team Are you wearing ankle socks or crew socks? Since the discussion about sock trends went viral on social media in 2024, we all know that socks can be a telltale sign of age. But hasn’t that …
The alternative investments industry is in constant evolution. For a while now, our specialists have been saying how important it is for fund managers, management companies, and service providers to understand and consider carefully the different types of operating models they can adopt. Now, amongst a myriad of already existing …
While it’s only natural for people to consider their financial well-being when job-searching, these days there’s an increasing number of other factors that they are bearing in mind, such as the work’s purpose, the company culture, opportunities for career advancement, career-path options, flexibility and job location. Put simply, post-COVID, people …
One of a pair of twin brothers dies. When a foolish student runs into the surviving twin, he asks, “Did you die, or was it your brother?” This joke comes from the Philogelos, the oldest existing collection of jokes, written 1,600 years ago. Most of them are quite childish or …
People are calling it the Great Resignation, a phenomenon that describes huge numbers of employees exiting their jobs and changing their lifestyles, careers and working habits following the COVID-19 pandemic. In the wake of this trend, companies are coming up with new ways to navigate these uncharted waters. The result …
Everything is going digital, including the HR function but, like any other organisational operation, the question of how far we should go when embracing that transformation is unskippable. How much is enough and what role should humans play? Before addressing the question, let’s set the basis. Human Experience Management, or …
Lately we’ve been hearing and reading the sentence “change is the only constant” a lot! As we know, this saying is bigger than just the context of the pandemic. It’s also tied to speedy technological developments and modern life itself and brings with it the need for trust—among us, in …
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, …
