The employment legislation is now becoming a crucial issue as Jean Claude Juncker’s goal is to get everyone employed and productive. Yet, the liberty given to employers who are not bound to provide reasons for dismissal may give rise to precarious employment and this is not an attractive factor to a socially-responsible business.

Corporate social responsibilities are nothing new. The European Union still proposes them as recommendable corporate practices and it treats its own employees with high-paying and satisfying jobs.

Does this provide a good enough example or are businesses still shocked as they see short-term measures and cost management as being the focal aspect of day-to-day management, without having a long-term vision? It does make people living on low wages feel a bit jealous and rightly complain.

What is missing is perhaps boosting business consultancy through the increasing availability of MBA graduates.

A recent poll carried out through social media indicates that “work that pays” and “work-life balance” are among the most commonly important factors for people who seek jobs because we have accepted the fact that we moved out of the Middle Ages quite a while ago.

Nevertheless, the de minimis administrative services that seem to discourage job mobility and increasingly give an impression that nationalism and protectionism underpin public policy, give rise to concern as people seem to divide into two ends of a continuum.

These are the hyper-globalists - those who are in favour of globalisation and integration of cultures and technologies – and the individualists - the ones who start off by seeking their psychological needs and how well they are met by society.

On which end of the continuum would you place yourself?