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When businesses are tempted by Peter Pan’s spirit
Giving employees candy, setting up slides and swings at work or solving a problem through a ‘serious game’ with the Lego construction game: these “fun” management methods, traditionally used by...
26 March 2014
BMW signs company agreement on managing “mobile working time” (Germany)
After bargaining and experimenting for a year, the management of the German carmaker, BMW, and the company’s central works council announced that they had signed a company agreement to define and...
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17 February 2014
EY (formerly Ernst&Young) tackles the taboo of employees’ mental suffering
The financial audit giant, EY (formerly Ernst&Young), has recently launched a new employee wellbeing program for its UK employees. For the first time, it focuses on psychological support and...
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11 February 2014
Lloyds Group wants to have 40 percent of senior roles filled by women
By 2020, Lloyds Banking Group wants to have 40 percent of senior roles filled by women. It’s the first time such a big company sets out such a big target. The Cameron administration is hoping that...
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6 February 2014
Japan: “Japanese-style internships,” or how young graduates spend the first months after hiring being tested and trained to the company’s values
In Japan, March means stress for young graduates who, dressed in a black suite and white shirt, start applying in businesses. Unlike human resources in the western world, these youngsters are not...
3 February 2014
United States: Merrill Lynch encourages junior investment bankers to take one day off per week
After a young intern died who had stayed up several nights in a row last summer in London, Bank of America’s investment bank, Merrill Lynch, has recently issued an internal note calling on its...
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13 January 2014
Objective zero harm: the bet made by EDF Energy in the UK
Since 2008, EDF Energy – the British subsidiary of EDF group, with more than 15,000 employees in nuclear, gas and renewable energy – has set up a groundbreaking health and wellbeing program, “Zero...
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17 December 2013
Great Britain: e-cigarettes are HR managers’ new nightmare
The growing success of electronic cigarettes is forcing businesses to come up with new regulations. But how to consider this atypical product, which some present as a weapon against tobacco but...
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13 November 2013
At TDC, the biggest telecom company in Denmark, employee who smoke outside of collective breaks now have to “compensate” the time gone up in smoke
On October 1, at TDC, the biggest telecom company in Denmark (8,500 employees), a new antismoking policy came into force. It provides for a complete ban on smoking inside the premises and in...
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2 October 2013
Sickness presenteeism: a rampant phenomenon in industrialized countries
Sickness presenteeism – employees who go to work when they are sick – is a reality heads of businesses know little of in western countries. Yet it’s real, as real as absenteeism, and can be...
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17 September 2013
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
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France: La Poste to launch negotiations for an AI agreement
Following the lead of firms such as Axa, Syensqo globally, and more recently CDC Habitat, La Poste group management will open negotiations on an AI regulation agreement during the first half of...
5 March 2026
Crédit Agricole is to adopt stricter rules on remote work from mid-March onwards. The rules will be tightened for employees, but the maximum number of days working remotely will remain unchanged.
29 January 2026
The three representative trade unions at Orange France have until 10 December to validate an agreement on gender equality, work–life balance and anti-discrimination measures. While the text...
8 December 2025
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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Ireland: minimum wage increase of 5,6% from 1 January 2027
The info. The Irish government has included a minimum wage increase of 79 cents in its Budget 2027, in line with recommendations from the Low Pay Commission. The rate will rise from €14.15...
13 October 2026
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Denmark: government prepares implementation of pay transparency in March 2027
The news. On 8 October, the Danish executive submitted the bill transposing the European Pay Transparency Directive to the national Parliament. The text stems from an agreement between trade...
12 October 2026
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China: draft bill to strengthen platform workers’ rights
On 8 October, the Chinese government published a draft bill open for consultation aimed at providing minimum guarantees to non-employee platform workers in terms of pay and working conditions. The...
23 October 2026
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Is a global wage freeze at Volkswagen possible?
The existence of an option to implement a global wage freeze until 2030 has been confirmed by the management of the German group Volkswagen, which nevertheless provides no details and refers to...
20 October 2026
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France: paid leave for victims of sexual and domestic violence finally adopted
The news. On 13 October, the French National Assembly unanimously approved, among voting members, the “comprehensive bill” aimed at protecting victims of sexual and gender-based...
14 October 2026
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Spain: metal industry employers cut sick pay top-ups
To curb absenteeism, Spanish social partners in the metal sector are introducing new clauses into regional collective agreements to reduce the top-up payments made by employers during sick leave...
2 November 2026