Jens Baier
Managing Director & Senior Partner
Düsseldorf
Jens Baier leads Boston Consulting Group’s work in human resources (HR) in Central and South America, Europe, and the Middle East (CEMA). Since joining the firm in 2000, he has managed a wide range of projects, including HR excellence programs, migration of HR IT to cloud solutions, strategy development, large scale transformation, organizational redesign, role of the center definition, set up and optimization of shared services, and cost efficiency programs. He has worked with clients in a wide range of industries in Germany, Europe, the Middle East, and South Africa.
Jens is a certified executive coach. Prior to joining the firm, he worked for Daimler Chrysler in Belgium, for EADS in Paris, and for Thyssen Krupp and Mercer Management Consulting in Munich. He did his apprenticeship at Deutag AG in Duisburg.
Our survey of over 1,500 employees and 200 employers in Central Europe shed light on how a company or a leader could gain competitive advantage and prosper via Smart Work in the post-COVID era.
To thrive in the post-pandemic economy, companies must make learning an integral part of their culture and operations.
The crisis is changing the way we work at lightning speed. To survive and thrive in the years ahead, companies will have to adapt and respond—and get started immediately.
Effective people-centric solutions—in areas such as workforce flexibility, corporate purpose, and digital readiness—can play a big role in helping companies find their way through the crisis.
Auf die geburtenstarken Jahrgänge der in den 1960er Jahren geborenen „Babyboomer“ folgt eine Generation, die nur noch halb so groß ist: Zwischen 2002 und 2013 wurden in Deutschland in jedem Jahr weniger als halb so viele Kinder geboren wie im Jahr 1964.
This article explains step-by-step how BCG quantified the extent of future labor shortages and surpluses for 25 major economies by 2020 and 2030.
Significant imbalances in the demand for labor and its supply threaten 25 of the world’s major economies. Here are BCG’s projections—country by country—along with proposed remedies.
