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With Kununu portal, employees in Germany, Austria and Switzerland can rate their employers
Like the web platforms allowing customers to say what they think about hotels or restaurants, Kununu portal gives employees, apprentices and applicants the possibility of reviewing their...
10 September 2013
How is an employer brand built? EADS, the most attractive employer in Spain in 2013, answers
EADS has received the Randstad Award 2013 for its excellent employer brand. In order to award this prize, Randstad polled about 7,000 people in Spain. Results reveal that participants ranked EADS...
25 July 2013
Corporate practices: Sweco, or how to attract and retain female engineers
Sweco, a group operating in engineering, environmental technology and architecture, is also the world leader in particle separation and size reduction. It employs around 7,400 people, 70 percent...
23 July 2013
Deutsche Bahn introduces new procedure to recruit young people on their profile and not their degrees
To compensate the number of departures each year – about 8,000 for a total of 300,000 people – Deutsche Bahn, the German rail company, has been adopting more and more initiative to recruit as many...
17 July 2013
Renault: HR agencies for employee-customers
Renault made a small revolution at the end of 2011 in the HR organization of its engineering and service undertakings in the Paris area (16,900 employees). Employees and managers used to complain...
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11 July 2013
Spanish businesses are getting into 2.0 recruitment methods
Recruitment 2.0 has not been rapidly embraced by firms in Spain, a relatively recent phenomenon, but they are starting to (Ref. 130413)
20 June 2013
Germany: more and more employees take sabbaticals
They’re obviously still a minority but they are more than they used to be. A recent survey by the Handelsblatt daily found that more and more German employees, notably executives, dare to take a...
5 June 2013
MSD speeds up development to move young talent into senior leadership positions
The Spanish subsidiary of MSD, a global healthcare leader known as Merck & Co., Inc. in the United States and Canada, enacted the “Internship Talent Program” in 2011 as part of its talent...
31 May 2013
Part-time work evolution follows work cultures and national normative expectations
Two researchers from the infamous Social Science Research of Berlin (WZB) looked into part-time practices among management in 19 European countries, from data gathered by the EU in 2009. They...
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21 May 2013
Germany: napping at work is gradually growing
SAP, BMW, Lufthansa, BASF, Vaillant…, a growing number of German businesses are arranging “resting areas” for their employees. But they’re doing it almost in secret because the issue is still...
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30 April 2013
BASF and the Catalonian Government (Spain) agree to the first dual training program at the transnational scale
The chemical company BASF and the Catalonian Department of Education (Spain) have just reached an agreement by which students from a Catalonian vocational training school can pursue a dual...
22 April 2013
Corporate practices: Enel’s occupational safety strategy
Coaching contracting and subcontracting firms, developing innovative training and information methods for employees, spreading the best practices and improving social dialogue… these are the key...
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18 April 2013
Corporate practices: BSH Spain commits to pushing local young talent into the international arena
The Spanish subsidiary of the Bosch and Siemens Home Appliances Group (BSH) is determined to identify promising recent graduates at the local level and to expand their skills and competencies for...
27 March 2013
Corporate practices: at Globus SB-Warenhaus, the German retail group, one click is all it takes to reconcile employees’ personal interests and the company’s needs
First retail company to receive, in 2008, the "Work and Family" award from the Hertie Foundation, the German department store chain, Globus SB-Warenhaus Holding GmbH & Co. KG, received, in May...
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21 March 2013
Corporate practices: SEUR, the transport company, cares for employee retention from the very start of the employment relationship
In 2005, SEUR, the leading company for urgent transport and integral logistics in Spain, conceived a "Welcome and Integration Plan" targeted at their new staff, as part of its talent...
20 March 2013
Corporate practices: staff wellbeing at the center of the economic strategy implemented by Lån & Spar Bank A/S bank
“Actions on health and the working environment were initiated as a key element in our new strategy to improve basic profits as well as client and employee satisfaction” Keld Thornæs, associate...
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29 November 2012
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31 October 2025
Candice Guillot, group director of employee experience and HR performance at Talan (7,000 employees), outlines for mind RH her vision and strategy for introducing artificial intelligence at the...
20 October 2025
On 17 July 2025, BPCE and its trade unions signed a second agreement on jobs and career management within the banking group. The text places generative artificial intelligence at the core of its...
15 October 2025
Italy’s labour market continues to suffer from limited pay transparency and a persistent gender pay gap. The forthcoming implementation of the EU pay transparency directive — still awaiting...
14 October 2025
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Italy: decree-law adopted to increase workplace safety
On 28 October, the Italian cabinet adopted a decree-law on health and safety at work, aimed at preventing and reducing accidents. The text addresses both the powers and actions of supervisory...
4 November 2025
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Romania: parents of children with disabilities granted up to eight days of remote work per month
On 9 October, the Romanian parliament adopted a bill aiming to bolster support for parents of children with disabilities up to the age of 18. The legislation, which came into force on 12 October...
4 November 2025
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mind RH analysis – Initial findings from CSRD social indicators
In 2025, for the first time, the universal registration documents of major European companies contain the sustainability reporting required by the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive...
31 October 2025
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Italy: European pay transparency directive, a major step forward for businesses
Italy’s labour market continues to suffer from limited pay transparency and a persistent gender pay gap. The forthcoming implementation of the EU pay transparency directive — still awaiting...
14 October 2025
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Netherlands: ING cites AI as it plans to cut around 950 jobs
Dutch bank ING has informed the employment agency UWV that it may cut around 950 jobs by 31 December 2026. In its notification on 20 October, the lender said the planned reductions stem partly...
30 October 2025
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AI-driven job cuts on the rise in tech sector
As leading tech companies ramp up investment in artificial intelligence (AI) and roll out transformation plans to boost its development, layoffs across the sector are increasing. But are the job...
7 October 2025