Xtroverso Knowledge: Dutch Tax & Compliance Insights

Dutch Job Market Q2 2025: Fewer Moves, More Caution

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Three hundred and five thousand. (305.000) That’s the number of employees who changed employers in the second quarter of 2025. It sounds big, until you notice that, three years earlier, the same figur...

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Aug 15, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN

Speak to Your Team Like Clients

by Paolo Maria Pavan

A Tale of Two Conversations Last week, I overheard two calls in the same office. The first: a client on the line. The manager’s tone was warm, patient, precise, every word weighed like gold. The secon...

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Aug 14, 2025 WISE

June’s Dutch Export Numbers: A Modest Rise Amid Germany’s Industrial Slowdown

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Exports Up, Germany Down: Reading Between the Lines Statistics Netherlands tells us that in June, the volume of Dutch goods exports, adjusted for working days, was up 1.8% compared to June 2024. Machi...

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Aug 14, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN

Slowness as Ecological Leadership

by Paolo Maria Pavan

When my grandfather ran his company, he was known for two things: never missing a handshake and never rushing a decision. He read contracts slowly, not because he doubted himself, but because he respe...

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Aug 13, 2025 WISE

Cyber Resilience: The Silent Test Every Dutch Company is Already Taking

by Paolo Maria Pavan

In 2024, one in five Dutch companies learned the hard way what “cyber incident” really means. For large corporations, it was three in ten. The first blow? Financial loss. Then came the data breaches. ...

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Aug 13, 2025 RISK INTELLIGENCE

July’s Dutch Business Numbers: The Calm, the Churn, and the Illusion of Growth

by Paolo Maria Pavan

In July 2025, 299 companies were declared bankrupt in the Netherlands. That’s 109 fewer than the same month in 2024 , a 27% drop, and 4% fewer than in June. At first glance, this is the kind of number...

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Aug 13, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN

The Danger of Being Your Business’s Single Point of Failure

by Paolo Maria Pavan

The Parachute That Never Opens Years ago, I met a small business owner who proudly told me, “Nothing moves without me.” He meant it as proof of his dedication. Two months later, he was hospitalised af...

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Aug 12, 2025 WISE

Dutch Inflation Cools to 2.9% in July 2025

by Paolo Maria Pavan

When I look at the July 2025 inflation figure, 2.9% year-on-year, down from 3.1% in June, I don’t just see a number. I see a pulse. A soft beat in the economic bloodstream telling us the patient, our ...

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Aug 12, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN

Inclusion Is More Than a Buzzword

by Paolo Maria Pavan

The Teacup in the Corner In the corner of my office sits a chipped porcelain teacup. It belonged to my mother. No one drinks from it. It’s just there, visible, silent, and part of the room. Years ago,...

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Aug 11, 2025 WISE

Fraud Has Learned a New Language, Have You?

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Once upon a time, fraud wore a fake moustache and asked for your bank details by post. Now it wears an AI-trained voice that sounds exactly like your accountant. It writes emails better than your mark...

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Aug 11, 2025 RISK INTELLIGENCE

The 0.7% That Speaks Volumes

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Numbers are often treated like weather forecasts, glanced at, maybe discussed, then forgotten. But behind each percentage point, there is a story about how we live, choose, adapt, and sometimes contra...

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Aug 11, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN

Lean Infrastructure as ESG Logic

by Paolo Maria Pavan

The Shelves in My Grandfather’s Workshop When I was a child, my grandfather’s workshop had only three shelves. Not four, not five. Three. One for tools, one for materials, one for the work in progress...

ES ESG IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE

Aug 8, 2025 WISE