QWL and health

Since its inauguration in October 2016, employees at the US IT giant’s subsidiary, Microsoft Deutschland’s new head office in Schwabing, north of Munich, can now get to work when they want and...

20 July 2017

L’Oréal: an interview with Bertrand de Senneville, Global Vice-President of HR-Industrial Relations and Head of the L’Oréal Share & Care Program

In January 2017 the global cosmetics giant launched ‘Season 2’ of its Share & Care program, which in addition to bolstering certain social cover and parental leave aspects also focuses on the...

8 June 2017

Japan: companies are lagging behind over remunerating the best employees

In sharp contrast to employers in other Asian economies. Japanese companies are stuck in an outdated seniority-based evaluation system, reluctant to identify key performers and financially reward...

2 May 2017

Germany: SAP introduces the right to work on a part-time basis for a fixed period time

While Germany’s Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, Andrea Nahles (SPD) is doing her utmost, albeit currently with little success, to introduce legislation giving workers working on a...

25 April 2017

Germany: law adopted to reduce wage gap between men and women

On Thursday 30 March, Germany’s Bundestag adopted a long-discussed law on equal pay of men and women. In order to reduce the sizeable wage gap that exists between men and women, the bill...

31 March 2017

Brazil: companies faced with challenge of fostering racial diversity

Around 10 years after Brazil introduced quotas for people of African ancestry in its universities, the integration of people of colour in the corporate world is on the up. However, the issue...

3 February 2017

Germany: reassessing individual bonus payments

Germany’s businesses regularly discuss the issue of individual bonus payments and performance related bonuses that make up the variable part of employee remuneration. At Bosch, Deutsche Bahn, and...

2 February 2017

China: employee loyalty, an HR priority

Both an ageing population coupled together with growing demands from China’s millennials are now forcing corporations to rethink the way they approach Chinese employees, as retaining talent is key...

20 December 2016

Kering puts a global parental policy in place

On 14 December French luxury goods brand announced that as of 01 January 2017 minimum standards would be in place for maternity and adoption leave that will be fourteen weeks at 100% of basic pay...

14 December 2016

HR practices: Vincit, a company with just two managers, the CEO and the head of HR

Mikko Kuitunen and Pekka Virtanen set up Vincit (software development and IT outsourcing) in 2007 in the Finnish town of Tampere. They dreamt of a ‘business where people were happy to go to work...

27 October 2016

Daimler: the automaker introduces ‘the right to mobile working’ for 100,000 German workers

In line with Bosch, BMW, and Audi, automaker Daimler has also embarked upon an ambitious company agreement catering for mobile working that will come into force on 01 December 2016. Going forward...

25 October 2016

Italy: almost one third of big business uses ‘Smart Working’

30% of large companies have put ‘smart working’ structures in place, up from 17% in 2015 and the country now boasts some 250,000 ‘smart workers’ (flexible working times and places of work), which...

13 October 2016

Continental offers mobile working to 90% of its global workforce (interview)

German auto parts manufacturer Continental has just launched mobile working within the company for 90% of its 200,000 employees from all hierarchy levels working across twenty-one countries. This...

29 September 2016

Russia: Vimpelcom developing teleworking on a large scale

Only 4% of employees in Russia telework, compared with 34% in the U.S. However, according to a study carried out by J’son & Partners Consulting and which appeared in 2015, by 2020 that number...

12 July 2016

France: executives at Orange (ex-France Telecom) risk standing trial for moral harassment

The public prosecutor’s office in Paris has called for three former executives at the Orange company to stand trial for workplace harassment. The three in question are Didier Lombard, the then...

11 July 2016

Russia: Eldorado project looks to attract young managerial staff into retailing

A dearth of young qualified professionals is affecting the country, despite the falloff in GDP. Not only is the research sector being impacted but so are both tourism and retailing. The Eldorado...

23 May 2016

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