The Electric Company, in cooperation with the Ministry of Finance’s Wage Commissioner, the Companies Authority and the workers’ organization, has signed a first-of-its-kind agreement in government hybrid work companies, where workers on a long-term list of occupations will combine two days from home and three days from company sites.
These are about 3,600 employees who, starting in May, subject to corona status, will be allowed to work regularly for two days remotely, with one day being mandatory – so many company sites will be closed to operations for reasons of efficiency and savings.
The agreement matured after about two years in which the company led pilots to work remotely, examining, learning and implementing changes to produce an optimal model for the needs of the organization and employees.
The move joins a variety of efforts and processes being made in the company to equalize conditions for the challenging world of recruiting, including a home-work balance trend, which has become even more necessary and popular as a result of the epidemic.
This is a move that aims to help position the company as an equal among the major economic organizations that have moved to a permanent work-from-home agreement. The agreement will result in significant savings in the resources used so far to operate the sites, and will limit the quota of employees who are in those spaces at a given time.
About two years ago, with the outbreak of the corona virus, many organizations, including public ones, switched to remote pilot work. The Electric Company was among the first companies to allow full-time work from home for anyone whose occupations allowed him to work remotely. The work of the headquarters in this matter began even before the Corona era, as the company recognized the need in the labor market for flexible employment. Now, in the current agreement – the company declares intentions: Remote work has demonstrated a significant improvement in the way it works and it seeks to make it easier for employees and managers – to allow employees more diverse diversity and employment, depending on changing times and global circumstances.
IEC CEO Ofer Bloch said: “After two years at Corona, we have learned positive experience from the pilot we have implemented, with the outbreak of the virus – of working remotely. The pilot not only demonstrated compliance with the company’s outputs and goals – but also demonstrated that enabling a flexible employment model that includes remote work and balancing home needs and workplace needs – benefits the IEC’s business goals, helps us recruit and recruit quality personnel and we know today, from two years of fruitfulness – that There is no more ideal way to retain and nurture employees. ”
Vice President of Human Resources, Shlomi Tzarfati, added: “This is without a doubt a significant achievement for public sector companies in Israel. Among other things, against the background of the difficulty in recruiting employees, the IEC was the first to carry out comprehensive pilots and assimilate insights in the process, so that we arrived ripe for signing a binding agreement to march the terms of employment at the IEC into the 21st century.
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