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Our new working world has taught us: we won't get ahead with our traditional working methods. And when everything around you is changing, it’s helpful to be agile and ready to adapt. This is exactly where Agile Working comes in, a way of working that allows us to react flexibly and proactively to change. It’s all about networks, team-based processes, employee ownership and knowledge sharing. How Agile Working can help each of us at METRO to make our working lives easier is what I talk about with Christina Lange, Agile Coach at METRO.digital and member of the "New Ways of...

Since the move to our home offices, many of us can hardly be found at our "old" workplace. There are colleagues at METRO who have been in the office maybe just three times since March 2020. Of course, this also poses new challenges for our managers. Until now, almost all means of leading employees and teams have been based on direct human contact. But since interactions have become almost exclusively screen-based, managers and their teams have to find new ways to lead as well as to be led. In this episode, I talk to Maren Gerhäuser-von de Fenn from the...

How has Corona changed our work and collaboration? And how can our METRO community grow even closer together? These are the questions we want to address in this episode and get answers from Elisabeth Hesse, responsible for Internal Communications at METRO. I talk to her about our Social Intranet United - so to speak our campfire around which we gather at METRO and which provides us with warmth and wisdom. Elisabeth also tells us what makes her life in the home office easier and brings us her very personal "Sound Souvenir".

One year of Corona and, like the virus, we too have mutated in this time: from office workers to home workers. Our workplace is digital and our collaboration virtual. Work and private life are merging more and more. In our first episode, we talk about this with Christian Rippl, Global Director of the House of Learning at METRO AG and co-initiator of the "New Ways of Working" project. Together with the project team, he wants to use the changes brought about by Covid-19 to improve working at METRO for all of us.