IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/sprchp/978-3-658-45150-9_15.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Free Space for Employees—Planning Security for Employers

In: The Future of Work

Author

Listed:
  • Georg Pepping

    (T-Systems Internat. GmbH (until 31th of Dec 2023))

  • Tanja Werner

    (Deutsche Telekom AG)

Abstract

The world of work is changing rapidly. What was once a rare exception, home office has become part of a new normal for many. Where the boundaries between home and office blur, the desire for delineation between work and private life grows. When a company introduces new working time models, these should contribute to balance both and give employees the assurance of actually being able to switch off and relax. In August 2021, T-Systems International GmbH (“T-Systems”) introduced the working time model FreiRaum for this very purpose. It offers the possibility to convert money into time. Employees can receive up to twelve additional free days per year through FreiRaum. These are treated like vacation: time—for the family, for the care of relatives, for hobbies or simply for oneself. FreiRaum meets the spirit of the times. What T-Systems promises its customers, it also delivers for its employees: more flexibility. This article presents this model.

Suggested Citation

  • Georg Pepping & Tanja Werner, 2024. "Free Space for Employees—Planning Security for Employers," Springer Books, in: Inka Knappertsbusch & Gerlind Wisskirchen (ed.), The Future of Work, pages 119-125, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-658-45150-9_15
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-45150-9_15
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-658-45150-9_15. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.