Work from home in Germany are often prohibited

0
370

Study

Work from home in Germany are often prohibited

For many workers the Home Office is the solution, for others a nightmare. Because the home is often worked more than in the office. Nevertheless, the companies in this country is restrictive and harm themselves.

Not only because of the children: Singles in favour of the Home Office, as well as families (icon image)

Germany lags behind: Only every twelfth employee is mainly or occasionally in home working working – in the EU average, there are ten percent, in countries such as Denmark, Luxembourg or Sweden even over 20 percent. This comes from a study by the German Institute for economic research (DIW), from the AFP news Agency quoted.

Finding number two: Germany is moving against the European Trend. While on the continent a total of the number of homeworkers increased in the past year has been the tendency in Germany for a long time declining. Last remained the values at this low level.

Forced Presence

The third result: Many German companies want to lock itself against the wishes of their employees. Theoretically, the estimation of the study authors, would be home in 40 percent of the jobs in Germany. Two-thirds of the employee to which that applies, would, according to DIW actually like the Desk at home to be active. However, in most cases, put the employer to be vetoed.

What looks like leisure, is hard work, often with unpaid Overtime (icon image)

Particularly pronounced was the desire for a Home-Office with skilled, full-time workers. The Department estimates that the number of home-workers in Germany could be more than doubled. Condition: The company would have to rethink.

Surprise number four: Not the reconciliation of family and work is, according to the study, the most important reason, to within your own four walls to work, but the “desire for more temporal autonomy”. Singles wanted to similar to often at home to do her Job as Single parents. Among families with children is homework currently even less likely to be found than in couples who have no children in the household.

“HR’s Dinosaurs”

Desire and reality gape in certain sectors, noticeably far apart: banks, insurance companies and the public administration to ban the Home Office very often – areas in which the profession is basically easier in your own home to exercise could be as in other sectors. Here sitting apparently, “HR’s dinosaurs” at the Entscheidungshebeln, explained to the author of the study, DIW labor market expert Karl Brenke.

The editorial recommends

Digitization is increasingly penetrating the workflow. In the DW-Interview, Roland Berger CEO Charles-Edouard Bouée on the challenges and opportunities of digital forms of organisation. (15.09.2015)

The labour market is changing. Demographic change and skilled worker shortage intensify the fight for the best workers, especially in technical and scientific Professions. (30.06.2015)

It would be home also to the employers benefits. Because, as in previous studies showed, work as employees at home, rather than in the office: 2014 working people, already home to work, an average of 40.6 hours per week, while employees in the office, on average, accounted for 36.2 hours worked. Home workers made also, average number of Overtime hours. Nevertheless, be those who are also home for the Company to act with their work on average more satisfied.

Malicious Wishes

This results in a surprising punch line: The employers forbid their employees often, what they want – and what you yourself would also benefit.

But in order to protect the workers at the same time side effects. Because homework is from the point of view of the experts is also a threat: “Those workers that already have at home to do her Job, work for a relatively long time and often the overtime not entgolten”, it says in the study. The solution could be according to the DIW, operational, perhaps also the application of collective agreements – so that the workers themselves with their Wish to not cut his own flesh.

jj/uh (afp, sz)