Annual IBA Employment and Diversity Law Conference 2024

10 Apr - 12 Apr 2024

La Scala room

Session information

Breakout session six: Remote Working – a review of today’s evolved workplace
La Scala room

Description

Working from home (WFH) is here to stay, for some it will be full-time, but hybrid models are favoured by many. Our panel will look at how this new model is working, highlighting the main challenges and opportunities arising from this redefined employment relationship. For many businesses, WFH increases productivity rather than decreasing it, but managing the relationship is sometimes problematic, giving rise to employment law issues like performance management, being monitored too much or too little as well as issues around ‘visibility’ and proximity bias. Are underrepresented workers better off or losing out as a result of WFH? Statistically, remote workers get promoted less often than their in-office peers and are being paid less, despite being considerably more productive on average. The panel will look at the potential discrimination or other employment claims which are emerging as WFH becomes more established as a norm.

Session / Workshop Chair(s)

Pål Kvernaas Haavind, Oslo, Norway; Senior Vice Chair, Diversity and Equality Law Committee
Carol Zhu Zhong Lun Law Firm, Shanghai, China

Speakers

Pino Mercuri Intrum, Milan, Italy
Dr Kara Preedy KLIEMT HR Lawyers, Berlin, Germany
Soo-Ja Schijf Kennedy van der Laan, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Viola Zanetti Booking.com, Amsterdam, Netherlands