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Merger and Integration of companies: No sweat

23. September 2019

Your HR-employees can stem this easy besides their daily work and projects! Are you sure about this? Does your HR Manager agree? Is the relevant know-how as well as the required time available?

You have decided, the contracts are ready for signature. The integration-process is ready to be launched you want to act swiftly as the first savings are budgeted for the running year.

The following tasks are to be planned now:

  • Full information of your own, as well as the to-be-integrated employees
  • Detailed analysis of the skills base of employees as basis for re-organization, avoidance of duplications and guarantee, that you deploy your experts optimal
  • Analysis of employee conditions, insurance- and pension fund packages and corresponding costs
  • Information of authorities if consultation-procedure is required
  • Execution of a consultation process with pre-information of all employees
  • Design of new employee conditions and personal hand-over with consideration of resignation-period
  • Capturing od new employees within HR-IT system and testrun

Our experience shows that a optimal integration process requires up to one calendar year. Employer and Merger law define clear conditions. Each mistake during the process costs, not only time but huge sums of money.

As experienced and responsible HR-Experts we support your HR Teams during time- and resource-intesive merger and integrations processes. We support and relieve your HR Team, help to save or omit costs, optimize process flows and keep timelines.

The topic ‘emotional integration’ and the integration of different cultures will be one of our later Newsletter topics. Your employees need time, to understand the situation, to digest the news and to regain trust in their employer.

Time is crucial – as said !

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