Adecco says it has launched the Adecco Institute, with the first session to be available on a webcast on October 24, 2006. 

Adecco hopes that through primary and secondary research, conferences and events, the Institute will provide a forward-looking and fact-based perspective on innovative approaches to help organisations and regions raise employability, productivity and employee satisfaction at work.

The institute, which will initially focus on Europe, will be chaired by Wolfgang Clement, former German minister of economics and labour and will be located in London.

Its managing director will be Peter Siderman, who joins the Institute having spent 10 years with McKinsey & Co. The Institute will link closely with existing Adecco research initiatives.