Dear Commodity Pro,
Here’s your February 2021 edition of Inform.
As traditional for the first issue of the year, we’re taking a moment to look back at the past 12 months. Yes, we’re sure you are just as eager as we are to leave that particular year behind but we were also curious to assess this unique period against 2019 when most of us would have had to google COVID.
We started 2020 with a feeling of excitement of what was to come in the areas of digitisation. And although a bit differently than expected, this was still certainly a central theme to 2020. Working from home brought with it some exciting changes in the talent piece – candidates didn’t even have to get their passports out to attend for a final interview, and companies whose locations had worked against them in the past suddenly had the pick of a much wider talent pool.
Here at Commodity, we started using Linkedin Live as an informal way to share with you some real-time conversations with the inspiring leaders that we come across daily. Check out the most recent one here where I catch up with Sophie Ducoloner, MD of Axpo’s new Singapore business.
...data (has taken) an ever more important front seat at our firm
Meanwhile, our interviews on Inform Online have continued to rack up thousands of views for which we are grateful – it’s not our day job after all but people are key to all we do here at Commodity.
In addition to all that, data took an ever more important front seat at our firm, in the form of bespoke compensation benchmarking studies and trend analyses. We’ve definitely been busy this year!
The running plans for 2020, well let’s just say the Southdowns National Park where we are based saw a lot more of me than expected! But I’m optimistic this will all change in 2021 and have put together a suitably ambitious race plan for the upcoming year. Watch this space!
Hope you are all well and here’s to a 2021 that we remember for the right reasons!
Jakob Bloch, CEO
