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Questions about the workplace that may specifically relate to cultures or customs in Germany

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I am the leader (say, level 3) of a small team of engineers (level 4), one of many in our project. A couple of months ago, our management (level 1), together with HR, has announced plans for a new ...
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My employer introduces a lot of new tools which enable Global collaboration. We're now using cloud services such as Office 365, Confluence, Okta, and others. In particular, there is one new tool, ...
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I work at a German university on an EU-funded project and am deeply dissatisfied with the research group’s management and hiring decisions. During the hiring process for a scientific role, despite ...
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I recently accepted a job offer, signed the contract, and officially resigned from my current role. However, an unexpected legal complication has emerged that's currently delaying my start date. While ...
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I'm doing a B.A. in economics and work part-time in finance at an American pharmaceutical company. While my goal had always been do follow with a Master's in order to increase my job prospects and ...
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In Germany (specifically, the public sector), is there a time period in which an employer must reimburse business expenses? Is that time period affected by the duration of employment? Working as ...
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Preface: This question and its answers may be quite specific to the German-language "employment certificate" ("Arbeitszeugnis"), which is a little bit like a letter of ...
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In Germany and Austria, it seems to be the case that nobody leaves gaps on their CV and to do so is not normally a risk worth taking. (Although I would personally consider leaving gaps - see https://...
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Under the subheading for education on my CV, I have written BSc [main subject], [university], [grade]----------------------2012-2020 In the country where I'm applying for jobs, this makes it sound ...
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As a kind of follow up to a previous question of mine, I have finally found a new job. It has been confirmed that I am the company's #1 pick for the position, and I will have the final interview soon, ...
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I work in Germany and my previous employer had given me a laptop. On the last day of my work, I returned the laptop, and unfortunately, I didn't ask for a receipt. Also, I had a terrible relationship ...
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I had never in my life any contact with a Works Council (Betriebsrat) in Germany. I want to change that. I think, already the information what they have - what is going on with the company, and inside ...
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My boss often uses the wrong tenses when speaking. Until now, I thought he only does this colloquially and among colleagues. Now I've received an email to one of my clients in CC that just looks ...
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The company I am employed at has a system where most (currently ~8) full-time employees are instructed to take turns staying late (previously 18:30, now down to 18:00) to make a pass around the ...
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I work in Germany and I have a 3 months notice period (for me when leaving and for the company when "letting me go"). Since January (4+ months now) the company has a "2 day per week at ...
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