Teddy is the name of the fawn mongrel who has enriched the family life of Anne and Markus and their two daughters for several weeks.
Working in the home office enabled the Frankfurt banker and marketing specialist to fulfill their long-cherished wish for a dog.
“We'll never both have to go to the office completely again,” they say.
They are not absolute fans of working from home, but also see disadvantages, the lack of communication with colleagues, more complicated coordination processes or even disruptions from the children.
They say they couldn't imagine working from home.
And they are pleased that after the pandemic-related regulations have ended, their employers want to enable them to decide for themselves when they are in the home office and when they are in the office.
Patricia Andreae
Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.
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Decentralized work is by no means so popular among employers.
Since the corona incidences have been falling and the restrictions have been eased, calls have been made to end the home office obligation that has been in force since April.
"We are happy to register the slow return to a normal life," said Dirk Pollert from the Hessian employers' association recently, and immediately called for normality for companies too.
It must be left to them to determine the place of work.
Where mobile working makes sense can be clarified within the framework of employee participation, says Pollert.
"We have all learned to be more flexible."
There are corresponding agreements at the Frankfurt trade fair. Trade fair boss Wolfgang Marzin is certain that the majority of his around 2500 employees will return to the offices after the end of the pandemic restrictions and with the opportunity to organize large trade fairs again. So far, a significant number of them have been on short-time work and work from home. "It hurt that we hadn't seen each other for so long, we want to meet and bring people together, that's our core business," says Marzin. At the same time, he says that he was out on his bike shortly before the conversation in the afternoon and that he has come to appreciate the fact that working from home makes something like this possible. Nevertheless, he is convinced: "It has an incredible number of advantagesto meet at the exhibition grounds and also to discuss something over dinner in the canteen. ”He believes that this will“ level off ”and that, depending on the work involved, the employees will sometimes work more from home and sometimes more on the premises. "We have all learned to be more flexible."
"We are assuming that in the post-pandemic period we will use a hybrid model between remote work and work in a team in the office and on site at our customers", says Christine Martin, co-founder and board member of Cofinpro, a management and technology consulting for banks and fund companies. “Consulting lives from communication between people. We have seen and experienced that many issues go very well remotely, but not all, ”she explains. Resolving conflicts, training new colleagues and forming new project teams are much more difficult, she says. That is why the company will not change its plans to expand its premises on the banks of the Frankfurt Main.