Tag: Digitized working world
Schoolchildren want more digital content
Berlin The situation on the German training market is still heavily influenced by the corona crisis. A total of 511,300 apprenticeship positions were reported to the employment agencies and job…
Renew our education system!
The first website on the World Wide Web (WWW) recently celebrated its 30th birthday. In these three decades, the Internet has fundamentally changed our lives. Rapid digitization offers many opportunities…
There is a lack of expertise in mathematics, statistics and computer science
Chancellor Angela Merkel with a robot Too few politicians really know about the details of digitization (Photo: dpa) When politicians meet these days to discuss the future of the country,…
Exploratory paper: Tech associations praise digital plans – but miss a new ministry
Digitization is at the top of the exploratory paper of the SPD, Greens and FDP. Digital associations praise the new prioritization, but also see weak points. .source site
Handelsblatt tests: E-learning: What is important for further training offers
Companies are increasingly using online learning formats for their employees. But not all offers reach the entire workforce. .source site
Six things in the job that Corona has changed forever
New normal If you want to make a career in the “New Normal”, you have to plan your working week much more strategically than before. Dusseldorf The signs continue to…
Guest Commentary: The Trillion Challenge
In order to promote climate protection and digitization, the equity rules of the credit institutions have to be changed, demands Liane Buchholz. .source site
These books show how Germany is becoming more innovative
Dusseldorf And suddenly virtual meetings are completely normal. Everything had to happen very quickly in spring 2020. Face-to-face conferences were canceled and replaced by video meetings. Employees frantically carried monitors…
Personnel management: can mindfulness be trained?
Berlin Smiling smugly, he sits enthroned in the executive chair, barks at his employees with brief orders and overturns resolutions on a whim. Don Draper, creative director of a fictional…
In which professions little is earned despite hard work
Elderly care The “working class” group is united by the bitter realization that their work will not carry them through life. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf Deliver parcels in piecework, especially many…
Corona stresses Germans at work
Over 1000 employees took part in the 21 monthly survey waves by Zacher and Rudolph. The representative survey provides insights into where Germans worked before and during the pandemic –…
What a compromise could look like in order to avoid staff chaos
Berlin At the moment it looks as if one of the most pointed demands of the FDP in the election campaign could fail because of questions that seem simple at…
More online studies needed for foreign students
Online study Young people had to study completely online for three semesters. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The corona pandemic has significantly slowed the internationalization of studies: in 2020 only 64,000 people…
Companies ignore digital legal risks
Berlin If German companies use new technologies, the legal risks are underestimated. This is the conclusion reached by a study by the commercial law firm Noerr in collaboration with the…
Car manager should advance digitization
Daniela Gerd tom Markotten The industrial engineer and computer scientist has been the new digital director at Deutsche Bahn since mid-September. (Photo: Daimler) Frankfurt Anyone who saw the photo a…
Six lessons from the hybrid working experiment
Vodafone in Düsseldorf The headquarters will be reduced in size, but not superfluous. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf For almost nine years, Vodafone employees have been deciding for themselves where to spend…
How the Baywa wants to fight weeds
Baywa chopping robot “Dino” The machine can be used for mechanical weed control on vegetables and herbs. Munich Agriculture is seen as a rather conservative industry. In terms of digitization,…
Nicholas Bloom warns of a two-class society
Stanford Professor Bloom “We have to get creative.” Dusseldorf In the past few months, Nicholas Bloom has presented a few dozen top international managers with a radical proposal: they should…
7 tips for hybrid meetings
New forms of work A recent survey by the strategy consultancy McKinsey showed that 90 percent of all companies will work hybrid in the future. Dusseldorf What’s worse than face-to-face…
What Germany can learn from Asia
Tokyo, Bangkok Japan’s digital agency’s first day of work started with an apology. As soon as their website went online on September 1st, it collapsed again. The office reported promptly…