Maternity leave, parental leave and the return to work

Expectant parents have their hands full with the upcoming changes before the birth. Diapers, the nursery, breastfeeding – there are plenty of questions to be answered and preparations to be […]
Please stay! How employers can prevent terminations with stay interviews
Once the dismissal is on the table, it is almost impossible to encourage the employee to stay. A new trend is therefore to find out early on what motivates employees […]
Remote work and high sensitivity: can it work?

A good sensitivity for bad moods and emerging conflicts, an enormous striving for perfectionism, a pronounced sense of justice – highly sensitive people in the workplace stand out due to […]
In Progress: HR trends in 2022

Before the COVID-19 pandemic turned the entire HR field inside out (and back again), the industry was registering new, hip trends every year. Buzzwords like artificial intelligence, one-click applications or […]
Working Out Loud – What does the concept achieve for companies?

A new concept that is currently reaching the working world and once again sounds like a modern term from the New Work environment is that of Working Out Loud. But […]
Pay cut for employees in the home office
United States: Large companies such as Google and Facebook use location-based salary models and drastically reduce the salaries of many home office employees. What is the background to this practice […]
Gaslighting at work
Gaslighting is a criminal offence. But for a long time, most victims are completely unaware that someone is playing a dirty trick on them. The aim is to make the […]
How to terminate the low performers
Repeated tardiness, a low quantity of work or poor quality – there are many reasons why employees fall short of the employer’s expectations with their work performance. The bad news: […]
Scrum in human resource management: using agile methods for HR as well
In the 1990s, two Japanese scientists laid the foundation for Scrum in the field of knowledge management. This method of project development once revolutionised cooperation in IT and made it […]
13 attractive benefits as an alternative to a salary negotiation
Many employees are willing to have their net salary topped up with benefits instead of receiving a purely monetary salary increase, which usually doesn’t leave much after taxes and social […]