As part of our initiative “Luxembourg Recovery: 50 ideas for rebuilding”, share a concrete idea, an experience, or a measure to implement to facilitate the recovery of the Luxembourg economy. Béatrix Charlier addresses the topic of business recovery following the coronavirus.

My Idea: Free Movement of Talent

The Pitch:

While every company attempts to adapt to ensure its sustainability, or even its survival, another reality, underestimated and unmeasured, is unfolding: the return of employees. How can companies integrate emerging values such as purpose and solidarity to re-engage employees upon their return? How can we give ourselves every chance to reap what we sow from the recovery?

The Idea:

The long-awaited return

While every company attempts to adapt to ensure its sustainability, or even its survival, another reality, underestimated and unmeasured, is unfolding: the return of employees.

While initially this return will resemble a reunion, everyone will come back with a sharper awareness of their own needs, of their non-negotiables. Their relationship with the company will have, whether we like it or not, evolved!

I re-engage, you re-engage, we commit to…

Reintegrating employees without assessing their new aspirations represents a real short-term risk: disengagement, or even resignation. The current challenge lies in re-engagement at different levels:

1. That of employees, to welcome them in order to hear and understand their new expectations regarding the structure. In a word: listen.

2. That of companies, to propose a collective and solidarity-based project, in other words, by adopting a mission. In a word: restore purpose.

3. That of an inter-company network, to detect often overlooked true skills in order to empower them. In a word: co-develop talent!

Talent mobility

In light of emerging values such as purpose and solidarity, working for the sake of working can no longer suffice; just as enriching oneself for the sake of enriching oneself can no longer be the sole vocation of a company. Its purpose, its contribution to society, could become its new direction.

Only an environment that fosters the development of talent, built on challenges, benevolence, and freedom, allows them to express themselves. Is it necessary to recall here the turnover rates that nothing stems, not even salary increases?

Learning, progressing, and sharing knowledge should be achievable within every company. Subsequently, facilitating the free movement of talent would optimize their cross-pollination and guarantee the availability of a true talent pool in the medium term.

To dare intelligence is to dare to subscribe to a new solidarity, a new social contract, one of progressing together, working together, so that this country becomes the home of a new renaissance.