To attract suitable employees, companies use employer branding and headhunting. But what are the differences and can employer branding replace the relatively expensive headhunting?

Based on the Swiss HR Barometer data, Dr. Anja Feierabend, Julian Pfrombeck and Laura Schärrer analyze in their article in the trade magazine personalSCHWEIZ how the Corona crisis has affected the job satisfaction of employees in Switzerland.

The book “ Humanistic Management in Practice Vol. II” has been edited by Ernst von Kimakowitz (PhD) , senior research fellow at the Institute of social Ethics at the University of Lucerne, together with a highly committed editorial team.

The study programme «MAS in Humanitarian Leadership», developed by the University of Lucerne in cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), moved into its second round with 19 participants last week, on the 17th of March.

The last months have shown that working from home is possible for many jobs. What are consequences for the future workplace? Will the employees return to the office after the pandemic? What is the purpose of the office in future?

In a dynamic world of work it become difficult to anticipate changes. To find new solutions improvisation is needed. A recently published study examined how we develop improvisation skills and the individual factors influencing this development.

In the canton of Lucerne, 15% of the adult population were infected with the coronavirus and developed antibodies against SARS-Cov-2. These are the preliminary results of the national «Corona Immunitas» study, which is coordinated by the «Swiss School of Public Health» and carried out in the canton of Lucerne by the University of Lucerne in cooperation with the Lucerne Cantonal Hospital (LUKS).

How many people have already been infected with the Corona virus in the Canton of Lucerne? Researchers from the Department of Health Sciences and Medicine together with the Lucerne Cantonal Hospital want to find out as part of a national study.

The podcast is now publicly available for anyone interested who either missed or would like to revisit the workshop on the topic of "Digital Ethnography" that took place via Zoom on January 29th, 2021.

The Corona year 2020 also kept theology in suspense. Seminars on Zoom, podcasts instead of lectures: instead of research, many professors had to invest in digitization. Ten researchers were particularly noticeable in Switzerland.