Bo Vialle-Derksen

At a recent executive forum in Amsterdam, one topic surfaced with unusual urgency. It took almost as much airtime as the impact of AI on the workforce. This topic: absence. European business leaders are increasingly preoccupied with a quiet and expensive reality, a structural rise in long-term sick leave and stress related leave. Interestingly, despite record-breaking absenteeism across Europe, the issue remains largely absent from the global HR agenda. This is an opportunity for European HR...

There is an interesting conversation unfolding about the future of work in Europe, and it is one that many American companies have never had to confront at the same scale. How do you move quickly in a high‑technology, high‑service economy while operating inside one of the most protective labor systems in the world? The answer is no longer theoretical. It is playing out, in real time, inside Europe’s most advanced companies. ASML, the Netherlands‑based semiconductor equipment giant and...

We are living through one of the most dramatic shifts in the global geopolitical landscape since the Cold War. Economic realignment,...