Author: Renske

From DE&I targets to actual behavioural change. Since the early ’00s, research has made it increasingly and abundantly clear that diversity has clear commercial advantages. Yet, on average, while organisations have the related targets and have had them for a while, progress is slow. Why is that? Apart from the commercial benefits, doesn’t everyone want to work in an inclusive environment and feel that they belong? Looking at how people are wired and how coaching works, gives an interesting perspective. The societal shift the world is experiencing, tangible in businesses as ESG developments, in combination with an acute shortage in the labour market, forces companies to change their approach towards employees in order to be able to continue to attract […]

Research shows that the productivity of employees increases significantly in case of a shorter working week. An example of such research is the pilot of 4 Day Week Global conducted in the UK, with these and other strikingly positive results (click here). Partly prompted by the shortage on the labour market, we also see examples in the Netherlands where this is being put into practice. An underexposed factor in this regard is the impact of the qualitative aspect of the time people invest in their work. Although the saying “hard work never killed anyone” is not quite true, there is a grain of truth in it. Long working weeks as such are not a problem. As long as these working […]