For the seventh year in a row, ATOZ has commissioned and made public a survey. Each year’s survey explores a different theme, always focusing on Luxembourg trends – as industry thought-leaders, it is key for us to keep on top of market trends, continuously gaining a deeper understanding of our local environment.
As a reminder, in the past, we’ve looked at what Luxembourg professionals and individuals think about taxes (2015), how the surrounding population in the Greater Region views Luxembourg (2016), how Luxembourg residents feel about money and wealth (2017), how the so-called “millennial generation” perceives private business and entrepreneurship (2018), and the Luxembourg population’s views on climate change (2019). Most recently, in 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic top of mind, we took the opportunity to look at opinions on societal challenges and the role of the Luxembourg state.
We don’t drive opinion or push an agenda; we simply hope that the results of these surveys contribute to a larger discussion between different stakeholders of our country, give new insights into our local landscape and give additional input into the debates taking place throughout the population.
This year, we took a slightly different approach to the past editions. Unfortunately, we cannot escape the fact that COVID-19 still occupies a large part of our day-to-day lives – the vaccination campaign is on-going, sanitary requirements remain in place, remote working is still the current norm – so what lessons have the Luxembourg population learned from the pandemic, if any? To answer this question, we decided to include a selection of questions from our past surveys to ask once again, enabling us to see how, if at all, attitudes have changed or evolved over the past years and, in particular, after having experienced such an unprecedented situation over the past 18 months.
We look at these potentially evolving attitudes and ask, “should the pandemic have us rethinking our vision of the world?” and if so, “what do we want to see?”. This survey aims to highlight where the priorities of Luxembourg residents lie now, and to draw on trends that are emerging within the population with regards to change and its influence on various aspects of their lives. This report is a summary of the results but also should be read as our interpretation of such, with an inevitable element of subjectivity.
The results of the survey are made freely available to interested parties, so others are free to draw their own conclusions, thus contributing to a healthy debate on this topic.