I have used my first medienrot-column of the year to not look back at 2018 but instead to look ahead and make some (bold) predictions of what could be the topics that will dominate the "HR scene". As usually it's written in German but links to some english language articles. So it's definitely worth scrolling … Continue reading When HR people take a glimpse into the future…
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Employees' average tenure in even the hot companies like Facebook, Google, Apple is hardly more than two years. And these are the companies that top nearly every ranking. Many companies and their consultants try to extend this tenure by offering the most absurd "perks" or benefits, by building career trajectories - basically by coming up … Continue reading Retention Is Dead
If you work in HR you know the game: Titles. With every raise, with every new hire, with every achievement, there comes the debate what goes under the name in LinkedIn, Xing, and recently Twitter. And whats written there is becoming more and more useless and empty on the one hand because epople will be … Continue reading The Title Game
The industry we're working in is called HR - Human Resources. Of all the resources an organization uses and needs, we are taking care of the human ones. Not the coal, not the ink, not the diggers, not the airplanes, but the humans. And while this is definitely a commonplace it is worth remembering from … Continue reading Remember The Human In HR