With increases in technology and tools that allow people to work remotely, teleworking has become common in different industries. Telework is a way for companies to save money on infrastructure costs while allowing their employees to work from a place convenient for them.
The Netherlands has the largest percentages of teleworkers in Europe. Dutch Telecom is advertising teleworking to stimulate people to use teleworking services. Some companies have built flex offices, the working places of the future.
From the employee to the general manager, to the secretary, none of the employees of such a company does not have a personal desk anymore. When they come to the office, they pick up their personal trolley, a ‘flex-suitcase’ with their personal belongings and a company mobile phone to find a free desk. For teamwork there are the ‘island-desks’, for meetings there are special conference rooms and for individual work employees can choose one of the ‘cockpit’ offices.
A crew from the program Eòrpa from the Scottish BBC travels to the Netherlands to produce a reportage bout the popularity of teleworking in the Netherlands.
For this reportage Featurez proposed the idea for the story, did the research, set-up and planning of the filming, booked a rental van and did the driving, accompanied the filming, did the interviews and the translations.