Avoiding contacts - and working from home: That is one of the last arrows that you have in your quiver in the fight against the pandemic.
But is there still room for improvement among the companies and authorities in the district?
How much home office is possible?
Freisinger Bank wants more home offices
The Freisinger Bank is “very open-minded” when it comes to the topic of “mobile working”, says executive officer Andrea Stommel.
However, the capacity of the common data center of the Volks- and Raiffeisenbanken is limited - to 30 percent of the jobs.
There are 200 employees in the ten branches of the Freisinger Bank - and the home office concept has also been implemented in accordance with the quota.
"We are now working on increasing capacities even further," emphasizes Stommel.
The employees who are still working on a permanently installed PC are also to be converted to laptops.
That is the concept of the future anyway.
The risk of infection in the bank is low, according to Stommel.
“Many work in individual offices or in pairs at a great distance.” Only a few would get to work by bus or train.
Who works in the bank and who at home is decided "situationally" - that is, on a case-by-case basis.
There is room for improvement at AOK Freising
For the AOK Freising
With its 100 employees (ten of them each in Moosburg and Neufahrn), the declared goal is to significantly increase the current home office rate of around ten percent.
According to an internal study, a rate of a maximum of 50 percent is possible, says Inge Goss-Schwarzenberg from the AOK.
So here is "still room for improvement".
What still stands in the way of mobile work: For some employees, a presence in the office is simply indispensable - for example when it comes to original signatures or the like.
On the other hand, some things are not possible at home for reasons of data protection.
In addition, one is also still technically restricted, for example with "telephony", as Goss-Schwarzenberg admits.
Here one strives for improvements.
"In the future, we want to look even more closely at which workplaces are suitable for home office and which can be quickly converted." So far, there has not been much demand for home office from employers.
Freising town hall more and more flexible
At the Freising City Administration
Home office is a long-running hit - not just since the pandemic, but it is fueled by it.
"Due to the consistently positive experiences since the corona-related increased introduction of work in the home office in spring 2020, the office and staff council have agreed on a new service agreement", reports town hall spokeswoman Christl Steinhart.
The agreement will come into force shortly and fix the possibilities of “working hours, ie working hours, also in the home office”.
In principle, according to the present draft, all employees can strive for an agreement on mobile working - provided the workplace and the tasks assigned allow it.
Around 130 home office workstations have already been set up at the city administration, which would be used “according to the current tasks”.
That is a significant increase compared to the first lockdown.
There was no need for organizational changes.
According to Steinhart, it was necessary to provide mobile devices with the appropriate access to the city's administrative network.
Working in the home office naturally also has its limits in the respective area of responsibility in the city - for example in the citizen's office, traffic monitoring, in the building yard, city gardening or city drainage.
Basically, however, the topic of “home office” is at the top of the list for the city.
You can be (and remain) interesting as an employer.
In addition, office space can be used more economically and traffic is avoided on the way to and from the office.
However, according to Steinhart: The city administration service company would not function entirely without personal exchange.
District Office: Many service laptops
The district office has been in effect since the beginning of the pandemic
the principle of keeping the number of employees in the building as low as possible.
Office work should be done in the home office, if possible.
Spokeswoman Eva Zimmerhof: “With the tightening of measures in autumn, working in the home office was given even greater priority.
The district office currently provides 354 home office workstations for its employees.
Almost 200 of them have been equipped with work laptops, while other employees work on private devices.
In addition, further work cell phones were provided. "
In addition, there is a kind of emergency contingent so that employees who have to be in quarantine as contact persons can immediately be provided with a service laptop for this time.
Zimmerhof: “Compared to the situation in March 2020, significantly more employees are currently working from home.
At the beginning of the pandemic, many employees had to be sent home because of the infection protection measures, but at this time, as in many companies and businesses, the appropriate infrastructure was still lacking.
Since then, around 100 additional notebooks have been procured, and data protection issues also had to be clarified. ”Today it is therefore much easier for district administration employees to work from home.
Of course, you have to decide in each area how much presence is necessary and how much work can be done at home.
Zimmerhof: "Very sensitive data can still only be processed in the authority."
FT editorial team with a new concept
The editorial staff of the Tagblatt switched to working from home in the first lockdown - and the local section is now also being partly “working from home”.
The exchange of information takes place in several conferences, via WhatsApp and by e-mail.
This is how you keep in touch and develop topics.
Telephones were switched to "at home".
Two or three editors and the secretary hold the position, spread across the open-plan office.
Appointments on site are part of the reporter's job.
Conclusion: Generally speaking, there is still room for improvement in the Freising district when it comes to home office.
However, the pandemic fired developments in the right direction.
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