Tag: Working hours
Nevertheless, German offices remain empty
empty offices Even after the end of the home office obligation, many corporations are reluctant to open their offices. (Photo: plainpicture/Westend61/HalfPoint) Dusseldorf Despite the home office obligation ending on Sunday,…
Nevertheless, German offices remain empty
empty offices Even after the end of the home office obligation, many corporations are reluctant to open their offices. (Photo: plainpicture/Westend61/HalfPoint) Dusseldorf Despite the home office obligation ending on Sunday,…
Habeck announces further relief package
Robert Habeck The Economics Minister wants to relieve households. (Photo: imago images/IP3press) Berlin In response to rising energy prices, Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck (Greens) has announced a new federal government…
Tech companies are ordering employees back into offices
San Francisco, Dusseldorf The Apple Park should be more than a corporate headquarters. The massive ring-shaped complex in Cupertino, California provides work for more than 12,000 people and is surrounded…
Is there a risk of a relapse into old gender roles?
Home office with a child Parents with young children tend to want to work more days from home than other groups. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf Presence from Monday to Friday, fixed…
Why it’s just a beautiful dream in Germany
craftswoman A right to a four-day week in Germany is associated with several legal problems. (Photo: Imago/Westend61) Berlin Work from Monday to Thursday and start the long weekend on Friday:…
Habeck reaped praise and criticism for Flexirenten advance
Even today, nobody is “forced to retire at the standard retirement age,” said the Greens pension expert Markus Kurth. And there are more and more employees who work longer hours.…
Does the home office make you sick? This checklist provides answers
Young woman in the home office Even two years after moving to the home office because of Corona, two out of three employees still complain that their boss does not…
Draft law with stricter timekeeping for mini-jobbers & Co.
Berlin From October, the earnings threshold for marginal employment is to be raised from EUR 450 to EUR 520 per month. Mini-jobbers should also be able to benefit from the…
Draft law with stricter timekeeping for mini-jobbers & Co.
Berlin From October, the earnings threshold for marginal employment is to be raised from EUR 450 to EUR 520 per month. Mini-jobbers should also be able to benefit from the…
Minister of Labor Heil wants to relieve employees
Berlin The reform of mini-jobs planned by the federal government means additional costs of 800 million euros a year for the economy. This emerges from the draft bill of the…
Tandemploy founders talk about job sharing and the pandemic
Jana Tepe (left) and Anna Kaiser (right) Job sharing or rather dual leadership? (Photo: tandemploy) Dusseldorf The story of Anna Kaiser and Jana Tepe is above all one in which…
Financial groups send employees back home
Munich, Frankfurt The rapidly increasing number of coronavirus infections has prompted Allianz to resort to rigorous measures. On December 29, Europe’s largest insurer informed the workforce that the highest level…
“It’s okay if you mess up”
Fritz Kola founder Mirco Wolf Wiegert (Photo: fritz-kola) Dusseldorf When Mirco Wolf Wiegert and his buddy Lorenz Hampl founded Fritz-Kola as students in 2003, they had three things: 7,000 euros…
Corona: Daycare centers & schools – what parents should know in the Omikron wave
childcare Once again, more parents must expect to be able to look after their children at home all day again soon because of the corona pandemic. (Photo: Unsplash / Alexander…
US banks threaten unvaccinated employees with dismissal
new York Most bankers in New York are currently working from home again, because the highly contagious Omikron variant still has the city under control. But more and more banks…
Corona: Daycare centers & schools – what parents should know in the Omikron wave
Dusseldorf In the middle of the Omikron wave, school started again this week. Despite the increasing number of infections, the federal states are sticking to face-to-face teaching. There is great…
Hubertus Heil causes irritation
Today, Heil’s party friend Olaf Scholz is the head of the Chancellery. And the Minister of Labor sees an opportunity for a new attempt at his project: “I am in…
“We will no longer talk about unemployment but rather about unemployment”
Dusseldorf When Petra von Strombeck became CEO of New Work SE in May 2020, Germany was in the middle of the first corona wave. Your task: to reorganize the company’s…
New work is not meant seriously here
New work experts Management consultants Maria Bartschat and André Häusling (top), business psychologist Ingo Hamm (left) and author Carols Frischmuth. Dusseldorf Does the boss comment on the moment when your…