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About 70 office workers at the retailer have signed an internal petition for the home office, according to a report. Those affected were summoned to a meeting by Coop’s boss, Joos Sutter, including his superiors.
The head of the cooperative, Joos Sutter, summoned concerned office workers for a personal conference in Basel.
Photo: Georgios Kefalas (Kestone)
At Coop, working from home is generally prohibited for the 90,000 employees. But with the recommendation of the Federal Council’s central office in the spring, the retailer changed its rules for the first time. Office workers were allowed to work from home. In early summer, the workforce will be ordered back to the office. However, due to the increasing number of cases in September, several office workers requested that they be allowed to work from home.
Around 70 people sign the petition and are then summoned by Coop’s boss, Joos Sutter, to an auditorium at the Basel headquarters. As the “NZZ on Sunday” reported with reference to internal sources, the direct superiors of those affected also receive an invitation for an interview.
According to the report, the discussion heats up quickly. The CEO makes it clear who is in charge. The bottom line: the home office is still banned for now.
Only when the Federal Council issued another recommendation for the home office in October were office workers able to do their work from home. “It is important to clearly differentiate between the home office during the pandemic and the home office issue in general,” the retailer’s media office is quoted as saying. “About 90 percent of our employees work in sales, logistics and production. The home office is generally not possible there. ”Therefore, a certain internal solidarity is expected from the office workers.
As a reason for the call to give a conference to the CEO, the media office claims that the company’s management “in a“ good corporate culture ”responds to open questions from employees.
