Tag: working time
There are better solutions than a 42-hour week
Waiter in a restaurant Full tables, but few staff: Many companies in Germany are struggling with the shortage of skilled workers. But there are ways to overcome the problem. (Photo:…
Eight tips for getting back to work after vacation
holidays on the beach Many employees find it difficult to return to work after vacation. (Photo: Frank Mckenna/Unsplash) Dusseldorf The beach is gone, the stress is back: work is hard…
Eight tips to help against post-holiday syndrome
Beach Many employees find it difficult to start after their vacation. (Photo: Frank Mckenna/Unsplash) Dusseldorf Home office instead of a hotel, suit shoes instead of flip-flops, blazers instead of bikinis.…
Commerzbank employees fight for the right to more home offices
Foyer of the Commerzbank headquarters in Frankfurt Employees will be allowed to do more home office again in the future. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt At Commerzbank, the mood is tense not…
15 jobs with a lot of money and little overtime
Looking for a job People who apply for jobs are no longer just looking at the salary. (Photo: IMAGO/Westend61) Dusseldorf The times when job seekers were blinded by the amount…
Employees and employers should know this
Corona test Anyone who falls ill with Corona while on vacation and is declared unfit for work by the doctor is credited with vacation days. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf Whether at…
No claim in office or home office
fan in the office Occupational health and safety provides for such measures from as little as 26 degrees. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf A heat wave is rolling towards Germany. Meteorologists predict…
Karl Lauterbach wants to relieve nursing
Karl Lauterbach Lauterbach first announced the project two weeks ago before the conference of health ministers in Magdeburg. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) wants to counteract the…
Three things companies need to consider
Unlimited vacation Take time off when and as often as you want? Sounds like paradise, but it needs framework conditions for it to work. Dusseldorf Unlimited vacation – that sounds…
Why the 42-hour week is not a solution
Protest against the extension of working hours During traffic light coalition negotiations last fall, trade unionists warned of changes in working hours. (Photo: imago images/Mike Schmidt) In Douglas Adams’ science…
Workaholism is more complicated than alcoholism
The author Tillmann Prüfer is a member of the editor-in-chief of “Zeit-Magazin”. Ten percent of the workforce is said to be workaholic. There are already self-help groups for this, such…
Silicon Valley doesn’t want to go back to the office
Google campus in Mountain View, California The group comes up with many ideas for filling empty offices. (Photo: Bloomberg) san francisco The termination came as a surprise. Ian Goodfellow, one…
It’s time for employees to come back to the office
team meeting Companies want to see their employees in the office more often again. (Photo: Redd 5U / Unsplash) So now it begins: the “new normal” of the world of…
This is how companies lure their employees back into the office
company party Companies use various measures to lure their employees back to the workplace. (Photo: Al Elmes/Unsplash) Dusseldorf Siemens is relaxing its strict home office rules. For more than two…
“Managers are usually the real problem during transformation”
Dusseldorf He is not driven by ambition, but by passion. This is what someone says about himself, whom one would describe as old-fashioned as restless and in modern German perhaps…
Working from home makes you more productive and can still damage your career
home office Employees who worked more remotely were less likely to be promoted. (Photo: dpa) If more people work from their home office, then that reduces the number of infections.…
Employees should know these five boss phrases
Attila Albert The author of the book I Just Want to Do My Job explains why you don’t have to be friends with everyone in the workplace and save the…
These reasons speak for fewer conferences
After the meeting Meetings distributed throughout the day disrupt concentrated work. (Photo: IMAGO/MASKOT) Dusseldorf SAP is turning its meetings upside down: Europe’s largest software company wants to do without conferences…
18 jobs with a home office and a salary of up to 100,000 euros
Happy in the home office Since the pandemic, many jobs can also be done from home – and with good pay. (Photo: Good Faces on unsplash) Dusseldorf The home office…
Coach on the alternative to the purpose hype
Klaus Eidenschink Company coach and psychologist Klaus Eidenschink in the podcast Handelsblatt Rethink Work. Dusseldorf “Purpose”, i.e. charging one’s own work with meaning, is currently a big topic in many…