A new approach to work putting family at the
centre
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ENGIE Eps (Paris:EPS) announced the launch of the FamilyWorking
Manifesto: a new way of remote working that puts family at its
centre by combining family balance and work.
The implementation of a realistic Phase 2 plan during the
COVID-19 emergency must have as a fundamental pillar the protection
of children while allowing parents the return to full-time
work.
The data that emerged from a recent survey involving 65 thousand
workers and parents of more than 100 thousand children and
teenagers1 report as the main difficulties the concern about the
state of discomfort of children and the management of smart working
as a "full-time parent".
ENGIE Eps will make FamilyWorking available to its more than one
hundred employees: a new way of working remotely that promotes
family balance through a flexible working time organization.
FamilyWorking is an assumption of responsibility by ENGIE Eps
towards its employees, including those without children, which
translates into positively recognizing five essential rights: to
Technology, to Absolute Flexibility, to Time for the Family, to
Wellness both Physical and Mental and to Being a Parent.
The fundamental principle of FamilyWorking is that going to the
office to work is a right, not a duty, and the new natural
workplace is your home. FamilyWorking is not remote working but the
official recognition of 5 rights aimed to positively combine work
and family: a responsibility of the top management, who, by
choosing it as an organizational set-up, must ensure its
fulfillment.
ENGIE Eps, even when adopting FamilyWorking, does not exclude to
give the possibility to its employees of going to the company
locations, which remain open and operational for all industrial
activities that cannot be carried out from home. For those who
wish, it will be enough to book the attendance through the
electronic calendar, in order to be able to access the offices and
plants that will be totally redesigned on the basis of protocols
that will be defined together with the IRCCS Ospedale San
Raffaele, part of the San Donato Group, to ensure the highest
level of security to ENGIE Eps employees and their families.
"In this climate of absolute uncertainty, regarding specially
the schools and nurseries re-opening, smart working is not a
solution, but a titanic challenge for families, who find themselves
having to manage a full-time job, remotely, which does not involve
a conciliation with the family routine”, Carlalberto
Guglielminotti, CEO of ENGIE Eps, commented. "As an
entrepreneur I feel the duty to give an answer and concrete tools,
beginning with my employees, to protect not only their health, but
also their psychological and family balance. It is because of this
that we launched FamilyWorking, a new corporate organizational
structure: it is our answer to the crisis, from which we are
confident we will emerge soon, but also our proposal of the
future’s way of working , in which speed and balance will be
fundamental to re-start fast, more united and strong than
before”.
To allow its application to all companies, the FamilyWorking
manifesto and the analysis conducted by psychology, sociology,
management and pedagogy experts, are published on
www.familyworking.it/en, available to all.
Because Together We Win.
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FamilyWorking Manifesto
FamilyWorking is a responsibility of the company towards its
employees, also to those without children, indicating an
acknowledgement of the Phase 2 “new normal” that positively
translates in recognizing five essential rights:
- To Technology. If home is the new office, tools must be
adequate. It cannot be acceptable to work remotely without having
access to the best technologies, the best infrastructure, and the
most realistic and advanced virtual experience. The company must
guarantee it, in your home.
- To Flexibility. Continuous eight hours are the past and
a nightmare for the family. Traditional part time is a race with
obstacles, and regardless the COVID-19 emergency, getting it is
often a miracle. In FamilyWorking, working hours are in function to
your needs, the balance between family and work with the
possibility of changing it monthly.
- To Time for the Family. If you do not answer a
colleague’s video call it is because you cannot be disturbed,
because you are dedicating time to your family or your personal
life: the company has the obligation to respect it. Because of
this, working relationships between colleagues must be held
exclusively via video calls from the home’s workstation. This will
result in 60% stress reduction and set a clear boundary between
work and family.
- To Wellness. Scientists are unanimous: mental well-being
is linked to physical well-being. To say that you must do physical
activity when working from home, but you are not allowed to leave
it, is just a slogan. The company will have to provide concrete
tools to promote physical and mental well-being.
- To be a Parent. Raising children while working
from home requires not only routine and organization, but content.
Parents find themselves to be the only witnesses of the hardships
of their children, of their regressions, expressions of fear,
moments of sadness and isolation, and also of new ways of
relationship that the 24-hour coexistence has brought into the
relationship between adults and children. The company will have to
help raise the interaction with the children by making dedicated
content and experts available to its employees from dedicated
activities to be done at home to personal one to one meetings with
pedagogues.
FamilyWorking in ENGIE Eps
ENGIE Eps has decided to state these rights for the company,
also available to those who do not have children, around which the
FamilyWorking organization is built:
1) TECHNOLOGY
ENGIE Eps will provide for your home the same tools you had in
the workplace:
- A professional workstation: HD screen, dock station,
ergonomic chair, HD webcam and a contribution to your broadband
Wi-Fi connection.
- Complete virtual but balanced interaction: by getting
used to work only from your workstation, the time dedicated to work
and to family is separated. And remember that a video call reduces
stress by 60% compared to a phone call, when audio and video are of
quality.
2) FLEXIBILIY
ENGIE Eps gives you maximum time flexibility:
- You will be able to work when it suits your family routine
better. You will no longer be forced to operate in the 9-18
time slot. By simply using the electronic calendar you will inform
the team about how you will distribute your working hours and
"private" slots to manage personal or family needs, in which you
will not be disturbed.
- If you have children or are taking care of a family member,
you can temporarily reduce your working hours. You will only
need to indicate each month the weekly number of hours you plan to
perform, and your pay will be automatically adjusted. As a part
time on demand, but totally flexible, and adjustable from month to
month.
3) FAMILY
ENGIE Eps helps you to manage the communication with your
colleagues effectively and sustainably:
- Among colleagues, traditional phone calls are completely
replaced by video calls. You will talk from the workstation and
by videoconference only. Video makes communication more effective,
less stressful, and more human. Answering only from a computer
allows you to separate work from personal activities as well. It
will of course be essential to uninstall the video conferencing
system from the company's mobile phone: you will have to do it to
give priority to your family.
- Sending mails or instant messaging to colleagues is
interrupted from 8:00 PM. Flexibility cannot go beyond this
hour, and the time after it should be dedicated to family and rest.
A pop-up with a reminder will appear on your screen.
4) WELLNESS
ENGIE Eps helps you to maintain an active and balanced lifestyle
in partnership with PhysioTechLab and Fabrizio Macchi, ENGIE Eps
spokesperson and Paralympic athlete with 29 Italian championships,
4 European medals, 15 world medals, including 2 golds and bronze at
the 2004 Athens Games:
- Every day you will be able to do a fitness lesson via
Zoom, with dedicated personal trainers. To motivate you, 20% of
business and personal incentives will be paid based on attendance
at these lessons. Your family members will be able to participate,
involve them, always.
- Every month you will be able to submit to Home
M.e.a.sure, the innovative self-assessment test of your physical
state developed by PhysioTechLab and the stress level
measurement ENGIE Eps is implementing. To work effectively you
do not to give up your free time and well-being. Never.
5) BE A PARENT
ENGIE Eps, thanks to the partnership with the nursery-school the
Locomotiva of Momo, an educational excellence in Milan for 25 years
inspired by the Reggio Approach, gives you tools and quality
content to support your parenting path:
- Weekly webinars with a pedagogue to improve your
children's growth path. Adult discussion rooms will be led by
experienced pedagogues on issues regarding growth and specific
subjects emerged as a consequence of the COVID-19 emergency:
children's exposure to screens, children’s bond, autonomy
management, quality of learning within the home walls and
frustration for lack of social relationships between peers.
- A proposal of activities called “challenge” to be held
three times a week for children from 0 to 11 years old, to help
you sharing time with them and grow together. The objective of the
challenge is to involve children by launching very open
provocations and therefore easy understandable by children and
parents. The challenges will always include the use of materials
already present in the house (like recycling materials) or involve
children in explorations that will lead them to have a new look on
their home. In general, challenges stimulate children and adults to
enhance their ability to look at objects in an unusual way, opening
possibilities for discovery and generating intellectual, artistic
and motor activation.
- A private community, open to the family of our
employees, to share with the families of colleagues the activities
carried out with children, images, videos and drawings.
- Individual or couple pedagogical listening desk, which
can be activated on request, conducted by a pedagogue, with the
purpose of supporting the critical issues that emerged from the
management of children, rules, time and family relationships.
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About ENGIE EPS
ENGIE EPS is an industrial player within the ENGIE group that
develops technologies to revolutionize the paradigm shift in the
global energy system towards renewable energy sources and electric
mobility. Listed on Euronext Paris (EPS:FP), ENGIE EPS is listed in
the CAC® Mid & Small and the CAC® All-Tradable financial
indices. Its registered office is in Paris and conducts its
research, development and manufacturing in Italy.
For more information: www.engie-eps.com and
www.familyworking.it/en
About ENGIE
Our Group is a global reference in low-carbon energy and
services. In response to the urgency of climate change, our
ambition is to become the world leader in the zero-carbon
transition "as a service" for our customers, in particular global
companies and local authorities. We rely on our key activities
(renewable energy, gas, services) to offer competitive turnkey
solutions. With our 170,000 employees, our customers, partners and
stakeholders, we are a community of Imaginative Builders, committed
every day to more harmonious progress. Turnover in 2019: EUR 60.1
billion. The Group is listed on the Paris and Brussels stock
exchanges (ENGI) and is represented in the main financial indices
(CAC 40, DJ Euro Stoxx 50, Euronext 100, FTSE Eurotop 100, MSCI
Europe) and non-financial indices (DJSI World, DJSI Europe and
Euronext Vigeo Eiris - World 120, Eurozone 120, Europe 120, France
20, CAC 40 Governance).
1 "Families at the time of the Covid, a mapping of the needs and
difficulties", Committee Let's Give a Voice to the Children, April
2020, Research conducted through a CAWI survey methodology
(Computer Assisted Web Interviews) based on compiling an online
survey provided through a link and that became viral through the
hashtag #diamovoceaibambini. Altogether 65.537 parents interviewed,
for a total of 109.722 kids and teens, of which the 3.5% with
disabilities.
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