17th July 2020: A Telecommunications firm Telenor in Norway saw a productivity spike during the switch to online working during coronavirus lockdown. Now it has planned a flexible future for its staff. According to reports from the World Economic Forum, the message received from the CEO of  Norwegian telecom giant Telenor’s to its 19,000 employees, was, “It’s up to you”. CEO, Sigve Brekke, is a self-confessed pioneer of a “flexible future”. https://www.instagram.com/tv/CCtXre6o69R/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link The staff is now free to decide between office-based work and remote working. The choice depends on how each employee wishes to spend time working remotely or in the office. Amid the wake of the pandemic, Brekke observed a huge spike in productivity linked to staff having the freedom to choose how they worked. Google and Apple removes Palestine from the map “It all comes down to flexibility, trust, and freedom,” Brekke explains during a Zoom interview on remote working with the World Economic Forum. “Our daughter company in Finland has had this flexibility for many years. And we can see from their experiences that, on average, their employees are working outside the office around two days a week. And three days a week in the office.” For … Continue reading Telenor’s ‘Tight, Loose, Tight’ work approach in Norway