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Happy New Year! I hope you had a great start to the year and I wish you an amazing year 2020 ahead.

For me, the next 12 months are set to be another amazing part of the journey. More about that later. Instead, I want to share some BIG news.

On the 24th December, I got a very special gift: our first scientific article was published in the "Journal for Experimental Innovation" at the European Nuclear Research Center (CERN) in Geneva. Now, our work is cutting edge science.

The article describes the gap between the work environment that companies provide (in this case Deutsche Bahn) compared to the environment that employees are looking for. We used a simple, data-driven approach to help companies better support their employees in their work. There are three key findings:

  • there is a significant, measurable gap in the way companies support their employees (we have already done this for several companies and get very similar results),
  • there is a strong correlation between individuals...
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5 Reasons why work is not working

How things have always been done around here

As a child, I saw my father work long hours every day, Monday to Friday, often bringing work home for the weekend and evenings. He worked for the same company for 40 years.

I understood early, that work was a place he had to go, whether he wanted to or not. This subconsciously prepared me for the (soulless) fulfilment of my duty. I would also encounter this call of duty once I finished my education.

Today, too many of us head into a job we're not crazy about, to do work that doesn't set our hearts on fire, for people we probably wouldn't be friends with, if we met them on the street. And our parents and elders celebrate our ability to stick with mediocrity for the long term, empathizing with our unhappiness, but reminding us, that this is what life is like.

That’s just the way it is. Or is it?

We stay, and we get promoted to slightly higher-paying positions that still don't allow us to reach our full potential. We are already...

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