Welcome to a diverse, inclusive and fun workplace is a phrase on a little sign to greet visitors as they enter one of the buildings at SAP headquarters in Walldorf, Germany. Hard to think of a more ludicrously ironic greeting. Labor relations have hit all time lows at SAP. Once one of the most desirable places to work in Germany, SAP now has a deplorable reputation. Chief minister for propaganda and marketing Julia White has, with her minions, introduced Orwellian levels of doublespeak within SAP. And FEAR is rife among employees. This is the beginning of the end for many. Trust is gone.
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SAP has become a FEI dumpster. FEI hires at high levels are destroying the company!
Every comment here is so sadly on target. My boss doesn’t care about his direct reports, he just wants to keep his job that he’s woefully underperforming in - as made clear by the poor survey results year over year. There should at least be a more fair way employees are targeted for lay offs, and poor performing managers should be the first to go. It’s ridiculous that all headcount’s are equal. My boss’s salary alone would cover 4-5 headcount on my team. Instead of layoffs based on headcount, it should be an overall payroll reduction. Christian’s raise would cover thousands of employee's annual salary.
Germany's labor laws don't need to change, US laws do. We have practically no protections in place for our workers. Germany's keeping good jobs in their country, while the US bleeds them to other countries.
It shouldn't be this easy for giant corporations to ruin people's lives. Especially because our healthcare is tied to our employer in the US. And COBRA is an unaffordable joke. We have even more at stake with a layoff than Europeans do, who at least have some form of basic public coverage.
I still know people who are unemployed today after getting laid off from SAP last year. Layoffs aren't something to take lightly.
I’m not too sure why the Germans are complaining? You’ve got Workers Council and a very generous redundancy program to exit the business if you want it. Germany has the most fat, and it needs to be cut. Personally, I think Germany’s labour laws need to be reassessed if it wants to be competitive in the world.
I used to be proud to work for sap, who was a European company that treated everyone fairly and really wanted to change the world. Then came the management consultants and the suits and made it the same self serving stock price obsessed socophants who couldn't give to fu--s about the people who actual produce the products
All sadly true. I guess this is how once great companies decline until their ultimate demise.
Office of People and Culture! I just really think that this was an extremely unfortunate title. It definitely has massive overtones of totalitarianism!
I’m sure that I am not alone in thinking that the leadership of a “premier” German company should/would have noticed this and looked for a new title. Oh wait! CK and his creepy minions on the Executive Board, ripped it the idea off of other tech companies: “we want to be the leaders in cloud-based ERP’s and AI”. The reality is that we will follow the trends, fads and ideas of numerous other poor to middling tech companies!
CK, Julia White, Thomas S, Scott The Molerat and our cold psychopathic CFO and a number of other clowns, will (as others have already more eloquently stated), continue to create turmoil, immense pain and major inconvenience for employees.
The executive Board will also continue to promote evermore, lackluster, serf-serving and untalented “executives” into leadership roles in the various LOB’s. Ensuring that the mediocracy continues and SAP goes around and around circling the drain.