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 …
Ask yourself right now: “How quickly do I adapt?” Next, ask yourself: “How quickly do I change?” Now, tell me the answers and right away I will be able to tell you the likelihood that you will succeed. Because how fast you are able to change and how quickly you …
‘O Captain, my Captain, Does autonomy have to do with carving one’s destiny?’ In this article, we dared to build the autonomy equation into business. To accomplish that goal, we asked ourselves several questions. Is a successful take on challenges, what makes employees autonomous? Or might it be their ability …
Meaningful relationships are scarce. Jonathan. He lives alone somewhere in a busy neighbourhood. He’s a very social person with many friends with whom he spends time almost daily. But he feels like something is missing. He isn’t fully connected to people and ends up with an indescribable sense of emptiness …
