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This year, the agile-based continuous performance management trend — and the effort companies are putting into it — continued. Driven by rising uncertainty, shorter product cycles, and the arrival of new generations, this direction is expected to persist.

2023.12.13

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Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, after running more than 5,000 hiring interviews, reportedly said that "top talent delivers 50 to 100 times more than average talent."

2023.12.01

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Among mid-career professionals in Korea, when a friend has just landed at a new company, one question always comes up at the first meet-up: what kind of company is it? An old company? A conglomerate? A new startup?

2023.10.02

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What are the hottest keywords for Korean youth in the 2020s? There are many, but "fairness" and "common sense" capture the main virtues they are asking our society to embody. At the same time, the debate over "what counts as fair?" never ends.

2023.07.04

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There's an old joke: when someone says "young people these days have no manners," you reply, "that line is even inscribed on ancient stone tablets." Generational conflict has existed throughout history.

2023.06.01

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Agile performance management, which began in Silicon Valley, is now becoming mainstream in Korean companies as well. While each organization adopts it in different forms depending on strategy, environment, maturity, and change-management capacity, the broad direction shares consistent common ground.

2023.01.05

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Workforce planning is always a hard subject for HR. It carries the somewhat abstract difficulty of reducing people — each an individual — to numbers, and whether the outcome is a surplus (+) or a shortage (−), the adjustments that follow have an outsized impact on employees' futures.

2022.11.01

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It has been several years since employee experience (EX) was introduced as a core theme in HR. Despite considerable HR effort to shift the view of employees from "objects of management" to "subjects of experience," we are still falling short.

2022.08.01