A Vision on Cost and productivity in Europe
Cost and productivity measurement tools are very accurate and provide companies with useful indicators to benchmark European countries.
However, economic experts and HR professionals agree on the importance of qualitative factors that go well beyond the figures.
However, economic experts and HR professionals agree on the importance of qualitative factors that go well beyond the figures.
Gilbert Cette
Associate Professor of Economics at the University of the Mediterranean and Member of the French Economic Analysis Council
"Productivity is a prism of observing qualitative performance factors"
Albert Martens
Director, in charge of HR Global Transformation at IKEA
"IKEA: productive by being human"
Filip Abraham
Professor of International Economics and European Integration, Vice-Rector at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium)
"Labour costs alone are not motive enough to set up business in a country"
