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Luxembourg scored in the top 20, between Israel and Portugal, in Manpower’s annual ranking of how difficult it is to recruit and retain staff. Luxembourg did not place in the top 25 the previous year. Library picture: Manpower logo seen outside one of its offices in the Netherlands, May 2018. Photo credit: DennisM2 (public domain) 

Luxembourg placed 18th in Manpower’s Total Workforce Index 2020, which “measures and compares the relative ease of sourcing, hiring and retaining a workforce in 76 labour markets around the world.”

The study, released on 21 April, is based on “analysis of more than 200 criteria related to four categories: availability, cost efficiency, regulation and productivity of the workforce,” the firm said.

Globally, Manpower found that “48% of employees would like to work remotely at least part of the time after covid-19 versus 30% before the pandemic” and that “eight out of 10 want a better work-life balance.”