Quality of "Business" Life

Posted: November 30th, 2003 | 1 Comment »

Icon pointed out an report on the best European locations for a company to settle. Key factors on deciding where to locate where:

  • Find qualified staff
  • Communication factors
  • Cost factors (cost of staff)

    • Swiss cities do not perform very well even in the qualified staff sector and are of course crushed in the cost of staff department. Cities with the highest melting-pot factor (London, Paris, Brussel) have the best overall performance. Melting-pot = excellent (tele)communication, diverse population (very diverse working population, with a good chance to attract highly skilled workers), cheap labor. Switzerland with its “Alleingang” do not take that direction.

    Business attractiveness of Spanish cities is really improving due to efforts by the Spanish municipalities (improvment of infrastructures and the citizens’ sense civic sense) and the government (openness toward the world). And of course not surprising to see Barcelona and Madrid at the top of the chart in term of quality of life for the employees. Cities of the future?

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    One Comment on “Quality of "Business" Life”

    1. 1 7.5th Floor » Blog Archive » On Urban Attractiveness said at 11:27 pm on December 17th, 2008:

      [...] work and the indexes of Mercer, and the UN’s State of the World’s Cities, Quality of “Business” Life. Character, identity and uniqueness are also crucial ingredients in a city’s attractiveness, [...]