Insights from practice
Practical experience and analysis on HR, workforce, organisation and expansion.
What we encounter in projects, what we learn from it and what of that matters for your organisation.
7 articles
The HR Insight
The HRBP myth
Why not every company needs an HR business partner
· 5 minAndrea Horvath
Market & Expansion
Why Starbucks serves Café Crème in Switzerland
What makes a global brand locally relevant? Starbucks in Switzerland is a good example: the Café Crème.
· 2 minAdrian von Moos
The HR Insight
The probation period is not a one-sided test for new employees
Resignations during the probation period often come as a surprise to companies. In reality, though, they are rarely a spontaneous decision. Our projects show again and again that the causes usually arise in the first days or weeks after joining: the resignation often follows only after a few weeks or months - sometimes even shortly after the probation period.
· 6 minAndrea Horvath
Human Resources
An HR strategy does not start with HR, but with the corporate strategy
Almost every company has a corporate strategy, but hardly any has one for its own people
· 5 minAndrea Horvath
Organisation
A new org chart is not organisation design
In 2026, too, companies are under considerable pressure to adapt. Economic uncertainty, pressure on efficiency and technological change – AI above all – are forcing many organisations to question their structures and ways of working.
· 3 minCharlotte Mursch
The HR Insight
One year of vmh partners
Welcome to the first issue of The HR Insight by vmh
· 4 minAndrea Horvath
Organisation
Change management as an integral part of every change
While the project team is already thinking about go-live, employees are still trying to understand why anything is being changed at all.
· 5 minAstrid Mettler
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