Exclusif How Crédit Agricole is harnessing partnership with LinkedIn Learning to accelerate its transformation Professional development The French banking group and LinkedIn have set up an unprecedented partnership that will give employees access to 24,000 training courses on the platform. Using generative artificial intelligence, the group's staff will be offered training based on the skills that match their career plan. The aim is twofold for Crédit Agricole: to succeed in making employees players in their own careers and to pre-empt changes in skill needs, particularly in the face of digital transformation. Bénédicte Chrétien, Crédit Agricole's group HR director, and Fabienne Arata, head of LinkedIn in France, talk about the experience.
Réglementaire Technologies How industrial group Lacroix is harnessing a digital solution to pre-empt pay transparency requirements Comp and Ben @en The European directive on pay transparency – to be transposed by 2026 at the latest – will generate administrative constraints for companies. That said, it can also become a strategic tool in the fight against pay inequalities, which can boost employee retention. This is the gamble taken by industrial group Lacroix, which has been using the Figures digital solution since 2023.
France: how Cegedim uses referrals to recruit and retain employees Recruitment/Employer branding/employee loyalty French healthcare and services group Cegedim (6,500 employees) uses the Basile solution to fill some of its recruitment gaps through referrals. It's a way of improving the success rate of new hires, but also of rewarding employees, by following a few rules.
Technologies How Tech Foundations (Atos) is using artificial intelligence to optimise the HR management of its consultants Training/Professional development Tech Foundations, the outsourcing and cloud business line of the Atos group, has been using Whoz, a HR staffing solution using artificial intelligence to allocate consultants to clients, for several months now. It is based on a detailed skills map, drawn up jointly by managers and employees themselves. The solution, which is reserved for digital services companies, could soon be extended to the entire market.
Technologies Looking back at 2023: the advent of ChatGPT and other forms of generative AI ChatGPT and the generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools put in place by businesses are revolutionising the way we work. However, while these new technologies make it possible to create content of all kinds, generate code, assist in decision-making and thus free up time for certain tasks, their ethical and secure use poses questions.
Germany: SAP aims to revive employee appraisals with ‘Winning Culture’ The leadership of SAP, the German enterprise IT solutions producer, wants to restore its employees "taste for performance". To achieve this, it is negotiating the introduction of a "dynamic" appraisal system, coupled with a return to more frequent attendance on site.
France: how Saint-Gobain is using the Worklife employee benefits solution to modernise its HR policies Comp and Ben @en For almost two years, construction group Saint-Gobain has been working with start-up Worklife to offer its employees access to sustainable transport services, lunch vouchers and personal services all on the same app. This solution meets an employer brand challenge for the company, which wants to promote the benefits offered to employees.
France: growth in the burnout market Quality of life at work The term burnout is sometimes overused, but over the past four years or so this phenomenon has given rise to the emergence of dedicated applications. As Julien Alart, co-founder of Lumm, and Dr Clément Duret, head of the occupational disease department at the Raymond Poincaré hospital in Garches (AP-HP) and medical director of Holicare, can testify, French attitudes to psychosocial risks have changed radically in a short space of time.
Technologies How Cartier is equipping its HR teams with people analytics skills To optimise the use of its human resources data and its impact on the business, the French jeweller created a People Analytics department in 2021. Using the Visier tool, which is used by both its HR department and the wider business, the company has trained the entire HR community in data analysis.
Technologies France: Decathlon’s onboarding platform geared to optimising the integration of dual work-study participants Recruitment/Employer branding/employee loyalty French sporting goods company Decathlon has called on the Heyteam onboarding platform to harmonise the integration of its work-study students, the number of whom has more than doubled in three years. The online tool is also expected to facilitate administrative procedures and establish an ‘intake’ atmosphere.
