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Luxembourg City More than nine in ten new entrants to Luxembourg's job market were born abroad. That is not a figure about a handful of specialised sectors struggling to find local candidates. According to a recent Liser (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research) study, it describes the people filling new roles in the country as a whole, across most sectors. The profile behind the headline number The same study adds detail worth sitting with. Close to 40 percent of the

Thirty percent of foreign workers who come to Luxembourg leave within their first year. Half are gone within five years.

Companies calculate the cost of a failed relocation in terms of the search, the notice period, the gap before a replacement starts. What rarely enters that calculation is that the failure often had nothing to do with the employee's ability to do the job. It had to do with whether their first home in the country felt sustainable.