Imagine there’s an office and nobody ever goes there

There is nothing going on in the office at 42he GmbH. But that’s not Corona-related. The Cologne-based software company has been successfully focusing on home office work since its foundation. Nevertheless, the productivity and the working atmosphere are just right. Managing Director Axel von Leitner explains his most important insights and practical tips from the last ten years of ” Remote Work”.

Just sending the employees home with a laptop and saying “From now on home office is the order of the day”, that doesn’t work. The experience has probably been made by many companies in the last few weeks, if they hadn’t already been set up for home office on a larger scale. On a larger scale means that you don’t do a day of home office every now and then, but all meetings are still face-to-face meetings and topics are discussed face-to-face.

Homeoffice – or better, “remote work” – goes far beyond that and is not just a question of the right tools, for example, as one has been reading lately. The best tools are ineffective if you have the wrong employees or no suitable mindset. What is important with Remote Work?