BCR employees want to work on average 45% from home, with different preferences, depending on where they are in the bank, said on Thursday Andreea Voinea, executive director of Human Resources at BCR, noting that the IT area wants more teleworking, writes Agerpres . She discussed how to change the way BCR works, which during the pandemic became largely remote.
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“Since March last year, we have already been working extensively in teleworking, with two small attempts to return, but we have shown that we can work as well in teleworking as in the office. Given that flexibility plays a role important in our lives, together with our colleagues from the bank, we designed a program that we call ‘Smart Work at BCR’ through which we will incorporate these elements of flexibility in our lives, of all of us. (…) 90% of colleagues they told us that in the future they want to see elements of flexibility in their lives, with an average of 45% would like to continue working from home, with different preferences depending on where they are in the bank. and we hear, the IT area wants more teleworking than the other areas, so somewhere over 60% “, said Andreea Voinea, at the” SmartWork “event – BCR Expert Hub.
She stressed that flexibility will be present not only in the area of plant functions, but also in the area of network functions.
“We have had intense discussions on this subject and we considered that internal equity is extremely important. And our colleagues who will stand in front of customers – and they will have flexibility in their work. For the plant, the solution we propose, with implementation from September, the hybrid solution, the long-term solution, will involve a minimum of one day, a maximum of three days of teleworking depending on each area in the bank.Each area of activity had the opportunity to decide which hybrid solution suits it We are talking about the central area, for the network area, both for the retail networks and for the corporate networks, we will have flexibility for them as well, one day a week or one day every two weeks, depending on the business segment in which works “, said the BCR representative, underlining that for the network this hybrid model was entered already in the middle of June.
The executive director of Human Resources at BCR mentioned that during this period they are working in multidisciplinary teams to complete and prepare all the elements in order to be able to return safely in September, if the fourth wave of the pandemic does not come.
“There are a lot of things that go beyond hybrid work. We are rethinking collaborative spaces, we are preparing our managers. It will be a great challenge for our managers to lead their teams in this hybrid model where half the people will be at home and half will be at (…) I think that only by trying and doing things differently will we be able to see what works and what doesn’t and adjust as we go. It is very important in this context to be more agile and open. huge potential in our people to adapt, we just have to allow them “, Andreea Voinea also said.
For her part, Delia Rotaru, VP of People & Organization eMAG, mentioned that more than 3,000 colleagues went from work to home overnight.
“Our workload has increased very, very much. During all this time we had to hire. I remember that in April we had to bring 500 colleagues to the warehouse in the conditions in which we were full pandemic. It was with a lot of adrenaline. Over 3,000 of my colleagues have gone from work to home overnight, and I feel a lot of enthusiasm, and I see it as an opportunity for me as a human resource person to go through such a major change in the way we work. Honestly, I think we need to look at it with enthusiasm and see what we can do differently, at first I went full ‘work from home’, I stayed very, very close to people, I opened new channels of communication. “We are slowly beginning to realize that this is going to last a long time. As we ask ourselves what we will do in the future, we have realized that the answer is in our people,” Delia Rotaru said.
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