Meta4′s Corporate Business Development Director, Santiago Lecomte’s, and  Thomas Otter, Research director at Gartner, explain combinedly 7 reasons why HR projects are important to us here in Meta4. When customers come to us looking for a HR system strategy solution along with answers to their needs. Our contributions to our customer’s success range from Core HR administration to [...]

Mergers and acquisitions between companies have turned into a business strategy for increasing profitability and competiveness in difficult times. Although we use these terms interchangeably as synonyms, there are substantial differences between them. A merger occurs when two or more companies join together to convert into a single one. If one of the intervening entities [...]

Not so long ago I read a very interesting article trying to give advice to students on what careers, studies and languages to pursue to ensure them a professional future in the workplace. The conclusion the article drew was clear; in the new labour framework, neither university or post-grad qualifications, nor language skills guarantee a [...]

Every time I read a financial paper, I come across press that continues to remind us all of the productivity gap between Spain and our neighbours, not to mention absenteeism which is much higher than the European average. Given this information, it’s not surprising we’d tie one thing in with the other. If we do, [...]

After months of reading articles, posts, opinions and whatever over the net on how to avoid talent brain drain, I am going to try and put into a nutshell the ideas I have been gathering. Before I start though, I must say that all that is being said on the matter is quite vague, and [...]

Is there happiness at work? I think that for the majority of people this is more of a utopia than a “possible reality”. But companies will have to start to worry about the people working under their roof, not just them but also their happiness—unless they want to lose their talented employees, or if they [...]

During times of crisis like now where the financial outlook impacts all business decisions, managing our main capital, the people themselves has become vital for breezing through this complicated situation. During bonanzas, all our efforts focus on retaining talent, adapting our salary policies in a bullish market, defining compensation policies… However, in down times everything [...]

The first time I heard of emotional salary, I thought “They don’t know what else to invent for raises. Instead of a salary raise, let’s raise morale!”

As if it were a constraining, negative and an oversimplified thought, I started to research what this emotional salary was all about and I found an interview with Carmen Povedano of a few years ago. Three statements gave me a pretty good idea, “Compensation is important for anybody, but what is also important is that more and more people (including executives when their basic needs covered) prefer to renounce salary raises (and even promotions) for life work balance between their professional and family lives, and there are companies who are losing talent simply because they do not recognize this.”

Our culture is changing. Of course salary is vital. I know very few people who are privileged to work for fun.

Despite the undeniable importance of this “monetary” salary, society is talking of the work environment, compensation measures, equality, flexibility, teleworking, professional career development, recognition and rewards plans—unthinkable things 15 years ago. Given society is changing, it is also necessary to modify our ideas on work compensation, and that is where the latest buzzword emotional salary comes in. With the purpose of coming to grips with this concept, I jotted down on a piece of paper a list of salary compensation items that go beyond the usual ones, and once I identified (over 100!) and classified them, I had a good bird’s eye view of all the ones companies could use to better reward their employees.

How do you see the future of employee engagement over the next 10 years? How will this idea change in the decade to come? The writer, educator, coach and consultant, David Zinger, forewarning us of the risk of making such predictions, tells us what he thinks will occur in the next few years. You can [...]

Lots, in fact heaps, has been written about using social networking for work. Wading through what’s been written on the subject, two articles drew my attention. And more than the actual pieces, it’s the combination of these that I think can change the way we relate in the office. Yesterday in his blog, Mario Belmonte [...]