The Modern Workplace has weaknesses

Workday releases the results of a study on European labor market sentiment regarding the impact of the Covid 19 pandemic on leadership, career, motivation and home office.

For some employees, the abrupt switch to working from home goes hand in hand with lost career opportunities. This is particularly true for employees between the ages of 18 and 34, 40 percent of whom in Germany see their opportunities to gain new responsibilities and skills reduced in the past year. The 34- to 55-year-olds and the age group above have significantly lower fears. Here, only 25 and 17 percent respectively see their professional development thwarted.

In a European comparison, the mood in Germany is thus the most positive overall. In the nine markets surveyed, 61 percent worked from home last year. While the home office figures in Switzerland are in line with the European average, the United Kingdom takes the top spot with 71 percent. By comparison, just one in two in Germany was working from home. This was most likely for employees in the technology and telecommunications sectors (87 percent) and employees of financial services providers (74 percent).

In the meantime, two out of three German companies are planning home office operations even beyond the pandemic. Here, too, the technology sector is leading the way, as are companies with more than 5,000 employees.