On the Ambivalence of Flexible Working: The Influence of Corporate
Andrea Hammermann / Jörg Schmidt / Oliver Stettes IW-Trends No. 4 3. January 2020 On the Ambivalence of Flexible Working: The Influence of Corporate
Family-Friendliness New developments in technology are making it easier for companies to be flexible about when and where their staff work. However, a recent survey of companies and employees conducted as part of the Corporate Family-Friendliness Monitor 2019 (Unternehmensmonitor Familienfreundlichkeit 2019) shows that the relationship between mobile working and how the compatibility of family and career is actually experienced can be ambivalent.
Andrea Hammermann / Jörg Schmidt / Oliver Stettes German Economic Institute (IW)
Family-Friendliness New developments in technology are making it easier for companies to be flexible about when and where their staff work. However, a recent survey of companies and employees conducted as part of the Corporate Family-Friendliness Monitor 2019 (Unternehmensmonitor Familienfreundlichkeit 2019) shows that the relationship between mobile working and how the compatibility of family and career is actually experienced can be ambivalent.
Almost nine out of ten employees say their working hours can be reconciled well or very well with family and social obligations outside the workplace. While mobile workers are particularly likely to be satisfied, they are also afraid of missing out on the more interesting tasks if they make extensive use of family-friendly working conditions and consider it important for their careers to be available to their companies outside working hours. This is where a family-friendly corporate culture has a contribution to make by limiting the drawbacks and enhancing the benefits of flexible working for employees. Extensively digitalised enterprises are more often characterised by a corporate culture perceived as family-friendly. Through the targeted use of HR policy instruments such as results-based management companies can ensure that flexible work organisation is also family-friendly
Andrea Hammermann / Jörg Schmidt / Oliver Stettes IW-Analyse No. 149 27. July 2022
Labour turnover in Germany
Labour turnover in Germany tends to be relatively constant over time but decreases slightly in times of economic crisis, such as the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-2009 or the Covid-19 pandemic.
Andrea Hammermann / Jörg Schmidt / Oliver Stettes IW
Annette Dietz / Andrea Hammermann / Oliver Stettes IW-Report No. 33 10. June 2022
Behind the scenes of upheaval and change: Businesses in the transformation process
The pressure on companies and their employees to change and adapt is enormous against the background of megatrends such as digital and ecological change.
Annette Dietz / Andrea Hammermann / Oliver Stettes IW
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