As part of a pilot project named CROSS (Competence Rotation Over Several Sectors), 14 workers at Mercedes-Benz, Airbus and BLG Logistics participated in an employee exchange programme, between September and December in Bremen. The programme was geared towards improving workers’ ability to work together, offering them the experience of a new corporate culture and enhancing their openness to change. The project, which ended on Friday 8 December, involved a series of workshops and a three-month internship in one of the partner companies. This highly successful initiative takes into account the increasing digitalisation and interconnection in the automobile, aeronautics, and logistics industries, as Catharina Blatt, who leads communications at Daimler’s ‘Project Future’, explained to Planet Labor.
Willingness to change. The project began at Mercedes-Benz’s site in Bremen, where more than 12,500 workers are assigned to the production of ten models of automobile. By the end of the decade, the ‘Made in Bremen’ line-up of vehicles will include the entire range of advanced engines, from the traditional fuel engine to the rechargeable hybrid model, as well as battery-powered and fuel-cell powered electric cars. “Our branch is going through rapid evolution,” Ms Blatt explains. The trend of digi
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