Mobile work has deep roots in Audi’s company tradition. We intend to maintain collaboration versatile, autonomous, and unbiased sooner or later as nicely, as Member of the Board of Management for Human Resources Sabine Maassen explains: “It’s no longer a question of whether hybrid work will happen, but rather how we’ll handle it.” The 2016 “mobile work” labor-management settlement supplies a regulatory framework for that.
Since then, Audi staff have been allowed to work from home or on the go, if that is suitable with their job. Mobile work grew to become an on a regular basis actuality for a lot of Audi staff through the pandemic. Now Audi is taking it to a new stage.
Mobile work: particular person options, not inflexible rules
Anyone who desires to work remotely is free to decide on that choice. However, staff should coordinate with their managers. If all the situations are met, there is a single time restriction: staff might not work solely remotely.
Sabine Maassen emphasizes that “we learned to work together digitally very quickly due to the coronavirus pandemic. We are banking on the responsibility of our managers and our employees and not specifying any fixed rules. That means we’re giving them freedom and creating a framework for working independently.
A working group derived from the in-house Better Normal project and the Works Council is currently developing possible regulations for hybrid work. Among other things, the team is developing tools and methods for efficient work in the home office or at the plant.
Pilot projects for hybrid work models
In addition, pilot projects (“test areas”) lasting a number of months will begin in Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm within the second half of the yr. With round 150 staff every, varied new workplace designs and gear packages can be tried out, together with a desk-sharing idea for working on the firm in addition to on a regular basis distant work.
Audi is not going to solely provide the technical gear for working in a house workplace. Health care, an occupational security idea, and firm and information safety are additionally central considerations.
Together with the Works Council, the corporate is additionally working on concrete options for the areas that can’t work remotely. Among different issues, the objective is to make shift-working hours more flexible for higher work-life stability, taking part in digitization for all Audi staff, and optimization of the work surroundings and ergonomics.
The outcomes can be assessed in late 2022. After that, the corporate and the Works Council will determine on the extent to which Audi will implement these adjustments.
