Italy: Bayer trials flexible arrangements for working time and location

From 1 April until the end of the year, staff at Bayer’s Milan headquarters will experience a “new way of working”, of which the key feature will be the possibility of alternating between working in the office and working remotely. The agreement penned on 19 February by the pharmaceutical group and the Filctem-Cgil, Femca-Csil and Uiltec trade unions – dubbed the “"WOW!" agreement – targets an objectives-based working model after the Covid-19 pandemic and a company-staff relationship based on trust and a sense of responsibility, which will allow “objectives to be achieved efficiently by integrating the organisational requirements of the company and those of the individual”.