Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln

Press release TELESKOP (04/2000)                  09/07/2000

Qualifying for Telework - The "Office 2000⁺ "

Project at the German Society for Personnel Management

Together with the Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln the German Society for Personnel Management (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Personalführung - DGFP) has redesigned an office area, re-structured work organisation and introduced teleworking in order to cater for the demands of a company providing services to personnel management in the new century. This has lead to an increase in productivity and employee satisfaction and improvement in services to customers.

Limited office space combined with expansion of a subsidiary company forced DGFP to investigate new methods of working. The directors soon realised the advantages teleworking would bring to their company but were then faced with reservations from the employees which they felt they could not overcome alone. Together with the ADAPT project TELESKOP from the Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln they planned an eight month project for qualifying teleworkers and re-designing the work organisation and facilities.

During the training the potential teleworkers were actively involved in stipulating requirements  for the re-design of the office space and work organisation. This involvement helped to reduce the apprehensions about the introduction of telework and has meant that the concept Office 2000⁺ has been successfully implemented and positively accepted by all concerned. The DGFP management is very content having introduced telework in the enterprise and is grateful for having been able to benefit from the tailor made training and counseling support of the TELESKOP project by the Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln.

Contact:

Christiane Flueter-Hoffmann, phone: ++49-221-4981841