Since 01 October 2021, all Vodafone Germany employees are free to decide where they want to work, be it at the office, at home, or in a café. They can even work for up to 20 days a year in another EU country. Weekly remote working quotas have been abolished. In addition, a series of measures have been taken to protect the health of employees working remotely and to train managers in the challenges of ‘remote leadership’. Vodafone’s ‘Full Flex Office’ program was developed jointly by management and the works council and drew on the results of employee surveys.
Inventing the ‘post-Covid world of work’. Flexible working is a longstanding tradition at Vodafone. As early as 2012, employees were allowed to undertake 50% of their work time at home. However the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent widespread requirement to work remotely have shifted the goalposts. “The coronavirus pandemic raised the question of whether we still had the workspace of the future or whether we need to evolve,” says Vodafone spokeswoman Ute Brambrink, as quoted by...
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