QWL and health

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

29 November 2012

Corporate practices: BMW launches TaLENT, a more flexible training scheme focusing on the talents identified among apprentices

Demographic ageing, production changes - harder to plan than they used to be - and quick technological change are forcing businesses to come up with new HR management and training policies. In...

19 November 2012

Corporate practices: how Indra, the IT specialist is promoting female leadership at the highest level in the countries where it is present

120 female employees from Brazil, Philippines, Spain and Venezuela are currently taking part in “Women and leadership”. They share a common feature. All of them are executives or pre- executives...

15 October 2012

Great Britain: new benchmark on FTSE wellbeing

Confrontation tool. Business in the Community (BITC) is an association that promotes responsible business practices. It launched a new benchmark which will measure all FTSE 100 companies...

27 September 2012

Spain: beyond statutory requirements, businesses take innovative equal opportunity measures

Reminder. Spain adopted this law (see our dispatch No. 070315) drawing upon two European directives (2002/173 and 2004/113) on equal opportunities. As a general rule, large companies (250...

24 September 2012

Corporate practices: new agreement on “demography and the creation of a competitive and sustainable personnel structures” for Unilever DACH staff in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Project mostly initiated by the central WC. It took the social partners at Unilever Deutschland four years to reach an agreement on “Demography and the creation of a competitive and sustainable...

13 September 2012

Corporate practices: at Daimler, work-life balance isn’t an all-female issue anymore

Somewhere between a changing table and the production hall. The biggest heavyweight assembly plant in the world, Mercedes-Benz’s site in Wörth, North Rhine-Westphalia, spreads over 2.4000.000...

27 August 2012

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13 October 2026

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