The German car manufacturer has signed a new agreement with its central works council framing the implementation of remote working arrangements. Entitled ‘Remote work – Restart’, it updates and completes an initial agreement on this topic that was adopted in 2016. The revised company agreement will come into force after the Covid-19 pandemic, and it will allow Volkswagen employees who are able to do so, and with their manager’s agreement, to work up to four days a week remotely and to distribute these days flexibly over the course of a month. Employees in production activities do not come within the scope of this agreement.
“The future of work at Volkswagen will be hybrid,” Gunnar Kilian, Volkswagen’s Human Resources Director started by stating, before pointing out that the 2016 agreement on remote working had enabled the group to extend teleworking arrangements during the pandemic in an optimal fashion; a point with which the works council concurred. This agreement has been updated and refined in the light of the experiences undergone during the pandemic. According to the head of HR, teleworking employees “do an
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