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 […]

ESG as a trend is here to stay or at least as long as it needs to, to become mainstream. It provokes change and, generally speaking, people regard change as difficult and threatening. Communities, companies included, are like organisms. What we would call the habits, traits or personality of a person is referred to as culture when talking about the characteristics of a community. Each person has good and bad habits as well as blind spots. Some people have habits that are downright unhealthy. It can be very difficult to break such habits, even the ones that are potentially life threatening. Apart from addiction, the reasons are often connected with the perceived, often short-term, gains linked or attributed to such […]