FedEE Blog

The social media in their present form represent a huge threat to us all. Instant-mass-detached social bonding at a highly superficial level is distorting our grasp of reality on a massive scale, taking over our lives and changing our perceptions

US companies spend 13.7 bn euros ($17.3bn) a year sending business representatives on sales assignments to Europe, yet European companies spend less on penetrating the US market and get far better results.

According to the European statistical agency Eurostat, last

Maybe we all suffer from a collective amnesia? Unable to think before the era when people had a thousand Facebook friends yet knew no-one, before the day when endless selfies no longer seemed like vanity or messaging mania had set

I have just spent a day keeping an eye on a system called “flightradar24”. It allows you to track the path, height and speed of individual passenger aircraft to their destination. I had a friend travelling from Scandinavia to the

Major companies have frequently relied on employee benefits to give extra edge to recruitment and retention . But what kind of benefits interest people and are they growing or falling in popularity? A quick search of FedEE’s own data and

Europe is failing its next generation because neither the European Union, nor national governments are able to tackle over-regulation and the grey economy

As delegates gather next week at a Brussels conference convened by the European Commission to consider “Labour

Have you ever noticed that you spend an inordinate amount of time dealing with problems arising from a minority of employees? The same principle was discovered a hundred years ago by the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto who observed that 20%

Poverty has never been a headline grabbing subject, not like terrorism or airline disasters. In the minds of many Europeans it is also something confined to the third world – and then only at times of severe drought or war.

Large companies are constantly moving people around the globe as expats, sales representatives, service personnel and conference speakers, whilst top executives also fly out to explore potential mergers, acquisitions and JVs. Yet the world is a dangerous place and all

One of those defining moments of my life came from a debate I had with a classmate on the school bus going home one afternoon when I was 14.  He said that he could not understand the point of learning

There is usually a “honeymoon period” after every new hire begins work. How long this lasts varies to a great extent according to the corporate culture. Even the most demanding environment can feel exciting at the outset, but then reality

The popularity of Twitter continues to astound me. How can truncated sound bites ever add up to anything?  In an overworked language meaning drains away and the ability to say anything worthwhile in a few words becomes virtually impossible.

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Just when I thought that the HR fad for “talent management” was over it reappears in survey after survey about the preoccupations of HR Directors.  But the concept of “talent management” is like chewing gum parading as food.  It gives

An increasing number of us spend at least three years wasting our time doing it and in many countries around the world it can leave us in serious debt.  Everyone seems to believe in it – and yet it offers