To make work sustainable
and to improve the quality of work,
I think digitalisation is very important, very essential.
To have enough competences
to do your current work
and to be ready for future work
also is important.
A healthy workforce…
mentally healthy,
and able to adapt to changes.
Career prospects,
in terms of ability to work full-time,
and that especially counts for women.
If you work part-time, then career prospects are limited.
So what has to be done
for career prospects for women,
to have enough capacity…
for children.
Do we want to work two, three, four days from home
and one day at the office?
Or is it a choice?
And then it depends on what employer and worker agree upon
because the employer has to organise the work.
But we have to evaluate this crisis
and what it means working from different places.
What we can also learn from
and what we also have to look at is
what it has done to the mental health of people.
Were people more or less sick?
What does it mean on the long term?
I think less fixed hours,
and having the flexibility
to work from any place at any time,
that’s going to be learned from this crisis.
The last thing is, we are now have a Zoom meeting,
we have Teams meetings or whatever,
KUDO meetings…
but they cannot replace physical meetings.
We need to see each other.
That’s also one important thing we have to learn from this.
It’s in addition,
and we can have short calls, short interviews,
short meetings,
but it’s no replacement for physical meetings.
People learned more about their work,
they got more aware of the value of their work.
And I think they also got aware
that organising a society is….
is important,
and you have to keep societies together.
The reason why I’m saying this is:
what we’ve learned from this crisis, I think,
is that working from home, working from distance,
not seeing each other,
only in a digital way,
is in the long run…
not to the benefit of society.
It’s keeping people apart.
To get loyalty,
to get mutual understanding,
to feel how other people think,
to take notice of other cultures,
to learn how to get along with each other…
I think that it’s necessary.
And that’s because people are social,
focused always socially.
And that’s important.
It would not to be to the benefit of society
and not to the benefit of business…
if we had this in the long run.