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Benefits at Bielefeld University - Remote working

The world of work is constantly changing and evolving. Bielefeld University creates freedom for its employees in terms of where they work and thus enables more flexibility in collaboration. A working culture based on trust and appreciation is of central importance for this.

Questions and answers about remote working

Remote working - i.e. working at a different location outside of your workplace at the university - allows you to work from home, but also in a café, on a long train journey or at other locations within Germany. Remote working is regulated in a service agreement (DV "FlexWork") for all staff in administration and service as well as for those researchers who participate in time recording.

Up to 60% of working hours can be worked remotely, based on the respective individual monthly working hours. In the case of part-time work, the actual usable hours are reduced accordingly.

All staff in administration and service as well as those researchers who participate in time recording can work remotely, provided they do not have a stationary job - work in the laboratory, in animal care, in service facilities with presence requirements or manual jobs can usually only be carried out remotely in certain work situations. The extent to which new employees can participate in remote working can be discussed in the interview. The details of remote working will be clarified with line managers and colleagues once the employee has been hired. The management of the respective organisational units determine the need for presence.

As there is no need to set up a fixed home office, employees can choose suitable work locations themselves. New employees are given a company laptop that they can use to work from anywhere. The laptop also runs the "softphone": a digital telephone that allows the university telephone number to be used from any location.

Remote working is possible during flexitime from Monday to Friday from 06:45 to 20:00. Availability within the core working hours of 09:00 to 15:00 (until 14:00 on Fridays) should be guaranteed. In the case of part-time work, the availability agreed in the team may deviate from this.

Meetings can be digital or hybrid if participants are working remotely. A video conferencing programme is available for digital meetings. For hybrid meetings - some of the participants are on site and some are working remotely - the university has the appropriate hardware available to allow colleagues at the remote workstation to participate digitally.

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