The weather this week is fantastic! We’ve been able to play tennis outside for a few weeks, our public outdoor pool is open again and we’ve already been lane swimming twice. I’ve also been out to eat at a restaurant with my wife once. Many people in my bubble have been vaccinated once, some already fully. In the family all those who want to and can also at least once.
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Yesterday we were all in the office together as a team for the first time in over a year. We tested with spit self-tests provided by Clifford Chance to all employees who need or want to come into the office. After all the tests came back negative, as expected, we sat in our famous/notorious Innovation & Best Delivery Hub for several hours and worked together. The hub is big enough that we can sit at a distance. It faces the quiet courtyard and has floor-to-ceiling windows that can be opened wide. Well, we didn’t just work in a concentrated way, we also just talked about private and personal things and practiced our social skills. It was great and we plan to repeat it at least once a month while we are still working mostly from home due to the pandemic.
Improving diversity and inclusion by recording and reporting data?
in the last few days I read a lot about diversity dashboards as a new instrument to improve diversity and inclusion in work environments.
This may work in the UK or in the US.
But in Germany, it is culturally unimaginable just to ask employees about their race or ethnic origin, their religion (beyond what is necessary to do pay role/or if the employer is a church) or belief, their sexual orientation or identity, or any other potentially diverse attribute. It is strictly forbidden to record and evaluate this in personnel information systems. Interestingly, gender has always been recorded and evaluated. Probably because it was needed in the past to address the employee formally in German.
„Improving diversity and inclusion by recording and reporting data?“ weiterlesen
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In March 2020 we were in our offices, factories, schools, shops, theatres, doing our business. We had heard that there was a new lung disease in China, but…
Hello JHP
Monday was the first day at the JHP. Officially.
Marketing pictures of the new office Junghofplaza
Working from Home (19)
I have received eleven invitations to #clubhouse this week, but have no appetite for the new hot shit. We had enough of it in the last few months.
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It has never felt as dark as it does this year. This is not only a sensed, „alternative“ fact. Looking out from 24th floor of one shabby skyscraper at other shining skyscrapers is nowhere near as dark as to when looking out on ground level at your desk at home. What I have mainly done this winter.
View from my desk on 24th floor of FBC on 13 Januar 2017
Virtual Christmas Party
Yesterday we also had the virtual Christmas party of the Innovation & Best Delivery Hub in Frankfurt. We baked Bethmännchen together, drank Christmas beer, Riesling and Glühwein, ate raw-milk cheese, baguette and roasted almonds, played and listened to handmade music. It was so wonderful, it exceeded my high expectations by far. Thanks to all.
My Christmas party kitchen table „Virtual Christmas Party“ weiterlesen
Goodbye FBC
Yesterday was the last day at the FBC.
The move out marks the end of an era in Frankfurt. This is where Pünder, Volhard & Weber ultimately became Clifford Chance in Germany. We moved in over 36 years ago, on 1 April 1983; at that time only on the 30th floor. After the merger in 2000, we occupied almost half of the building. I was at FBC for the first time in 1996. The very first time, I had the pleasure of meeting Rüdiger Volhard. I have had offices on the 23rd, 24th, 26th, 30th, 31st, 32nd and 34th floors over the years.
Looking out of the cherry grove at FBC during the lunch break
„Goodbye FBC“ weiterlesen
Working from Home (17)
Weeks #22 to #24: Time flies, we still have so much to do. For DAC6, we have introduced an interim process just in time and selected in parallel a tool that has been configured and trained over the last few weeks and will soon go live. Many thanks, Olaf Scholz.