Deutsche Bahn’s ITC specialist subsidiary DB Systel has launched a radical transformation in its work organization that will affect its 4,000 workers. Already underway, the process has impacted almost 50% of the headcount as their work teams are redefined and they gradually move towards a new entity that has been nicknamed the ‘New world of work’. In short, the new internal structure is developing at the same time as the former structure is being dismantled. A year after three framework agreements on the issue were signed, the first DB Systel team will on 14 May migrate from the old structure to the new one. Klaus-Theo Sonnen Aures, head of the DB Systel central Works Council explains to Planet Labor how the ‘metamorphosis’ is to occur.
Three framework agreements to launch the change process. In April 2017, DB Systel’s social partners signed three framework agreements on the company’s transformation process. The first is a traditional agreement that frames increased recourse to mobile working. The second agreement endorses the establishment of a ‘mobility office’, a sort of internal work placement platform. The third and final agreement is eloquently named the ‘Framework Agreement on DB Systel’s organization and transformation in the new world of work and on the rules for work in this New World of Work’, (GBV Trafo) and is the key element in the change process.
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