Severance Programs: Fear Goes Around Among Managers

Whether BMW, Mercedes or Siemens: In the better years there was a real head inflation, now savings are made in middle management. And something else puts leaders under pressure.

When the intranet portal was unlocked last week, where BMW employees could find out about severance offers, the site quickly collapsed due to overload. The rush was so great that the Munich car manufacturer has closed the information exchange for the time being. Because the money is distributed in the first-come, first-served procedure: who is early, can even benefit from a turbo premium, who comes too late, may have been unlucky.

From a small town in Massachusetts, the economist Isabella Weber catapults herself into Berlin politics. In their theses, some questions remain open.

The plans for large housing stocks in Berlin are becoming concrete. How many apartments are there? Who but Vonovia is affected? And which explosive law is now coming into focus?

In Asia, children should take care of their parents for a lifetime. But that doesn’t work anymore, so the city-state of Singapore introduces assisted living – so far with rather moderate success.