Volkswagen, Bayer and SAP: Three DAX companies have recently launched expensive severance pay programs to get rid of some of their employees. Most of the time it involves older, long-standing employees who, in the opinion of management, are no longer urgently needed, but who can hardly be dismissed. When it comes to ongoing wage costs, some human resources managers think: It would be better to end with horror than to have horror without end.
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