Dare to ask questions, experiment, come up with your own ideas and challenge opinions. All without fear of retribution. Such a work environment makes your company competitive and reduces turnover. And psychological safety is at the heart of this. How can this be created? This is the subject of a book by an American author, Amy C. Edmondson. Hungarian managers have also given their views on the subject.

Employers who want to employ foreign colleagues will have to adapt to a number of changes again in 2025. The Aliens Act has been tightened, it is not easy to navigate the maze of different types of cards (permits) and to adapt to the changed expectations. We asked Györgyi Cziczárdi, managing director of Expat-Center and relocation expert, about the regulatory changes, which are also challenging for HR.

The application of wage parity brings a huge paradigm shift in the life of a company. How to prepare the organisations to be ready by 2026? The Directive sets out binding measures mainly for employers with at least 100 employees. What is the role of HR and the company's leadership in this preparation? What is a job map? How to adjust salary ranges? Botond Varga, VOIS Regional Reward, Policy & Employee Relations manager gives some practical tips.

Next year, there will be several new opportunities for employers to support their employees in their everyday spending, with favourable tax treatment or even tax-free. These include zoo admission and student loan repayment subsidies. Benefits expert László Fata has once again compiled a Cafeteria Guide, which can be downloaded free of charge below.

Who has grown the most in revenue and profit? Together with business information provider OPTEN, we have put thousands of HR service providers under the microscope for the second time. Our exclusive list of the fastest-growing recruitment and temporary employment agencies in Hungary.

Recruitment of Filipino guest workers to Hungary has slowed in the last six months, but Philippine recruiter Rowena Paragas expects a new surge by 2025. The managing director of NYD International spent several weeks in Hungary in September and visited our newsroom. She said that the Hungarian visa process is the most efficient in the region, that smaller Hungarian companies are starting to discover Filipinos, and that company managers are raving about their productivity and work ethic. But it is not only working relationships that are being established, there are also examples of Hungarian-Filipino marriages.

Although the government forecast is for GDP growth of 2.5%, the industry is in an 8% recession, which could put a lot of companies in big trouble in the autumn unless there is a positive turnaround, the president of the Chemical Workers' Union told HR Portal. According to Tamás Székely, the forerunner of this is already visible with forced production stoppages and shift cuts. At the same time, the unions want a 12% wage increase next year, so that the gross minimum wage reaches HUF 300,000. Whether there is any basis for this will be revealed in the interviews with them.

Why did most companies in Hungary failed the trials of the 4-day working week? Can work-life balance be achieved? How the 4 generations present in many workplaces can be well integrated? We talked to György Bőgel, retired professor of economics at CEU.

What is important for employees who are just strating their career? How does the internal labour market work at Magyar Telekom? What do IT job seekers want? Why do Filipinos want to come to Győr? We attended four exciting presentations at the HR section of this year's Business Fest in Budapest.

In recent years, the labour market in the former Eastern European bloc countries and the V4 countries has undergone significant changes, which have also changed the relationship between workers and employers. One of the key issues in these countries is the dramatic increase in labour shortages, which have been influenced by demographic factors, emigration and wage differentials within the EU, among other factors. An empirical study has investigated the characteristics of HR systems in the V4 countries. The authors of the article are József Poór, Professor Emeritus, President of HSZOSZ, MATE, Zsolt Sándor Kőmüves, Associate Professor, MATE and Gábor Szabó Szengróti, Associate Professor, Széchenyi István University.

At national level, employee turnover has fallen significantly, to 28% last year from 33% a year earlier. However, companies should not breathe a sigh of relief as this is still twice the acceptable level. And the decline is not due to an easing of labour market tensions, but to the economic difficulties of the past year and the restructuring of the labour market, according to this year's HR-Evolution national turnover survey.

Don't just count the advertising costs of hiring a worker, but also the cost of the recruiter's hours and the cost of attrition during the probationary period. Among other things, this was the topic of a presentation at last week's recruiTECH. In the first part of our series on the recruitment conference, we also look at the role of selection time and employer branding.

In 2022, more than 100,000 people took part in adult education, probably even more last year, although no final figures are available. According to Ákos Zsuffa, president of the Association of Adult Educators, the most popular areas of training included software development, business skills, finance and marketing. Although most training is available online, a recent large-scale survey shows that almost half of adult learners still believe in classroom-based training.