{Replica} Changing digital work: Gero Hesse / Bertelsmann discusses with Sarah Wagenknecht

Last week at UDL-Digital what would have been my personal dream politicalTalk can be: Gero Hesse, former Senior Vice President Human Resources at Bertelsmann and Founders of the Careerloft discussed against Sarah Wagenknecht, deputy party leader of the left. The theme was "digital Working – between self-realization and exploitation”. However, the discussion showed that the social rifts are so huge that the two talked past each other all the time.

Discussion on the topic

To say it straight away: The discussion went past the topic. Presumably, the discussants were also simply chosen badly, because from the work of a digital freelancer, somewhere between the ideals of free self-realization and the dangers of self-exploitation, both have too little idea - more below.

After moderator Cherno Jobatey cracked a joke about Oskar Lafontaine right at the beginning, Sarah Wagenknecht was obviously the one Lust past. Jobatey, who usually likes to stir up the debaters, was unusually calm in the following discussion - he said afterwards that he hadn't got through.

Objective, but not sweeping

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The whole time remained calm and factual, provided facts and could not be seduced to cheaper polemics or even jokes like Philipp Rösler a few weeks ago in the same place. That may not have been a good companion or entertaining, as was noted via Twitter - I thought that was good.

Extreme positions

Why was the subject over-discussed? Well: On the one hand Gero Hesse, who has been in a secure position at Bertelsmann for years.

On the other hand, Sarah Wagenknecht, who, from her previous work as an author, knows the freelance life, which is the digitalization and the chances that could arise from it, but apparently rather skeptical.

Rhetoric from the previous century

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Or what Regine Heidorn remarked so nicely: “The left didn't make it to theirs rhetoric lashing over into the 21st century. "

It is similar to me: Although I am aware of the dangers of digital exploitation, I can not get along very well with the solution proposals, which have left and unions, such as strikes.

The wrong PR instrument

On the other hand, in my opinion, it is not very expedient for employers to speak of a lack of skilled workers and a labor market in times of low-wage sector and agency work - neither socially nor for self-PR, which is supposed to actually serve this purpose.

Something like that is understood by many in a completely different way than it should sound – namely not as positive, encouraging message, but as a whitewash.

Which specialists are missing?

It may seem like from the point of view of Companys there is even a shortage of skilled workers - young, highly adaptable, highly qualified people. But if this is stated in such an undifferentiated manner, it leads to irritation - and to the polemical dissenting voices that companies so often complain about.

Because statements like “at careerloft apply the companies at the Candidates in the funding program” (Hesse in the preliminary interview), many may not really believe it in view of their own rather bad economic situation – and then react accordingly sourly.

Real deeds instead of lips

A company that really wanted to avert the threatening danger of a professional deficit would have to go a step further, especially if it is understood as a Career Network as a career network.

That would also take the wind out of the sails of such reviews. It would not have to start with the graduates, but also include the education system - that was briefly mentioned on Thursday.

Employers make it too easy

Frank Heinrich, job descriptions author and, among other things, former Adviser of the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, summed it up very nicely in his most recent contribution:

Is about Education and quality of education, however, employers [...] often make things too easy for themselves. First and foremost, they should exploit the untapped potential of those willing to undergo further training in their own company and future specialist and Executives available from the pool Employees recruit […] So far, however, companies have hardly used the opportunity for in-house qualification: In 60 percent of the companies, fewer than five days of further training are available each year, in every seventh company it is even a maximum of two days.

Include highly qualified lateral thinkers

There would also have to be two highly qualified people like ex-Taz editor Julia Seeliger or engineer Karen People who still have major problems finding a job in Germany.

Svenja Hofert recently showed that often only small things in the Communication about top or flop of an application decide. I would like to see a little more flexibility on the part of the companies, if there is talk of a shortage of skilled workers.

Communication as a basic problem - Interpreters wanted!

In general, communication, the mutual lack of understanding, seems to me to be the basic problem in the whole discussion - and that can definitely be applied to the whole Society transfer.

So well-known Hesse after the discussion, that he had no pleasure in this defense, in some places where it would have been possible for him to go to Sarah Wagenknech a bit. This is the basic problem. Interpreters urgently sought!

See in the social contect

Although the discussion itself was a bit boring, the evening gave me some exciting insights. Worlds met!

The Eyes I also find it dangerous for the companies themselves to shut themselves off from these social problems, the ever-widening social gap and the growing dissatisfaction - Greece, Cyprus and theCrisis say hello,

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