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2023-07-07 14:04:48

The private use of a company car is always part of the salary. I also had to negotiate that. My boss drives a Daimler and I don’t feel disadvantaged because of that. Also, not everyone has a private office like I do. We are not in socialism, and status always comes with privileges.

Negotiations about company cars are unfortunately always brushed off here with the argument: "You’re not in sales, so it’s not available to you." Then the company often has to pay for rental cars. But for me, that’s also annoying ;)

But you don’t have to convince me otherwise ;). A colleague of mine moved farther away and made an agreement before Corona that he only has to come to the office one day a week. If there hadn’t been that agreement, he would have quit immediately.

That may be, but unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be the ultimate solution :)

I think the mistake here is that the boss sees the ban on remote work as a possible solution. From everything I’ve read so far, it feels like no solution is actually being sought. You have to make on-site work attractive. This year we are investing massively in break rooms/bistros/cafeterias, even though we are normally increasing remote work from 2 to 3 days. Why? Well, you read it from Winnifred: If the office or production is a great place, then you’ll also grant people their home office.

And then there is still old-fashioned Management 2.0: "Do we even need break rooms anymore? The people aren’t there anyway..."

2023-07-07 14:46:54

To also talk about money again:

14 meters of parapet railing with square posts, handrail, vertical infill rods with ornament, as well as mounting brackets €595 per linear meter....

2023-07-07 20:07:33

I don't see it that way, because I can only look at it from the perspective of my workplace. We have no one in the warehouse who gets paid for anything, since the things are neither heavy nor hazardous. And it's not primarily about you or your workplace, as I said, I wanted to show that not all that glitters is gold.

You also have completely different conditions than we do, for example, we are a company of 45 people, 42 of whom can work from home, 3 cannot because of their workplace. But it also happens, for example, that someone can do parts of their tasks from home and hands over the parts that must be done on site to the colleagues who are already on site. I think it's totally great if it works like that for you.

We have great benefits, the only thing that simply doesn’t run smoothly is the issue of working from home.

Our current managing director will retire in June 2024, he agreed to working from home three years ago due to Corona. Since April, we have a second managing director who will replace the first. He is 48 and wants to cancel the company agreement because he misses the control mechanism! Which I also find old-fashioned, by the way.

We had a meeting this morning and he said, "If people are as productive at home as they claim, then they actually save time and should respond by reducing their weekly working hours. People are paid for 39 hours and then possibly only work 34 hours at home." ... or he said, "then I’d rather have them sitting here than hanging their laundry, showering, or loading the dishwasher at home."

It's a difficult topic, at least for us!

Honestly, I find such a boss totally weird and out of touch. I wouldn't want to work under such a mistrustful control freak.

At my old workplace, I had a colleague who worked 20 hours a week. Our work was divided in the department so that everyone had equally much to do proportionate to their hours. Said colleague consistently stayed an hour longer every day—regardless of the workload. And when there was nothing to do, she just read laws for the umpteenth time. Then vacation time came and she initially requested two weeks off. Shortly afterward, she announced that she would add another week of compensatory time off. Shortly before the vacation, she informed us that she also needed a few days of compensatory time off beforehand, after all, she had so many hours...

2023-07-08 06:52:53

I am such an interface, a "shift supervisor" between production and office.. I have witnessed the development and growth of our company. But since Corona, everyone somehow insists on working from home.
There were people who should never have been allowed to go to the office.. they were sent home just because they sit at the PC, now they insist on it.

The worst thing is I feel like I write 50 emails a day, which I could have clarified in a personal conversation in minutes before Corona.. that doesn’t exist anymore.

As an example, re-measuring on the system is then postponed to the day when you are on site.
In between, maybe something new is started and the old thing is left unfinished. That is not productive..

Or developing ideas together and discussing them directly on the spot doesn’t happen anymore. You can notice every day that this leads to a lot of rubbish.

But the bureaucracy keeps getting bigger.

2023-07-08 09:24:05

Or developing ideas together and discussing them directly on the spot no longer exists. You notice daily that a lot of nonsense comes out of it.

And you just have that creative meeting like that, without prior planning? Just an ad-hoc working group without preparation? Don't people have anything else to do that you just pull together an ad-hoc team without coordination? And everyone has to be present and do something concrete with an object?

Don't get me wrong, Gemba, personal exchange, nice conversations between colleagues & an understanding of the bigger picture are also needed. But for that, you don't need 5 x 9-to-5 like before. For that, you need a reasonable environment, self-organization, flexibility & trust and clear goals.

2023-07-08 11:07:52

I think we are currently in a transitional phase in this regard. Both the work processes, self-organization, and also the self-understanding of [AG] and [AN] cannot adapt overnight. It also took me some time until I felt I was working effectively from home. As I said… I have been doing this for 20 years, but the “adjustment period” definitely took a while. Today, it would probably be twice as fast due to faster internet and better communication tools. In any case, I enjoy the freedom to work wherever I want and also whenever I want… Self-discipline, however, is very, very important ;)

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