What does home office mean?<\/strong><\/p>\n The terms \"home office\", \"mobile working\" or \"teleworking\" are very often used interchangeably and ultimately describe the same principle. However, the different terms have different implications in terms of occupational health and safety regulations.<\/p>\n The bottom line is that employees' workplaces should not be located on the company's premises, but should enable them to work from home or on the move.<\/p>\n The term \"teleworking\" refers to work that is performed exclusively at home, i.e. the employee no longer has a workplace in the company. Instead, their home workplace is equipped by their employer, who also covers the costs incurred. In the case of alternating teleworking, the employee works from home at times and in the office at other times. As workstations in the company are regularly used by several employees at different times, the number of workstations can be reduced.<\/p>\n With mobile working, the employee has the choice of where they work from. This can be, for example, at a customer's premises, on the train or at home. The employer provides the employee with a mobile device (e.g. laptop or tablet).<\/p>\n \"Home office\", on the other hand, is a colloquial term that is often used for both forms of work. However, employees do not have a regular right to work from home; this must be agreed between them and their employer. An exception may exist, however, if there is a legal requirement (such as during the coronavirus pandemic) for employers to allow all employees to work from home where this makes sense.<\/p>\n Working from home plays an important role in everyday business life, for example when it comes to the protection and legally compliant processing of personal data.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The terms \"home office\", \"mobile working\" or \"teleworking\" are very often used interchangeably and ultimately describe the same principle. However, the different terms have different implications in terms of occupational health and safety regulations.<\/p>\n The bottom line is that employees' workplaces should not be located on the company's premises, but should enable them to work from home or on the move.<\/p>\n The term \"teleworking\" refers to work that is performed exclusively at home, i.e. the employee no longer has a workplace in the company. Instead, their home workplace is equipped by their employer, who also covers the costs incurred. In the case of alternating teleworking, the employee works from home at times and in the office at other times. As workstations in the company are regularly used by several employees at different times, the number of workstations can be reduced.<\/p>\n With mobile working, the employee has the choice of where they work from. This can be, for example, at a customer's premises, on the train or at home. The employer provides the employee with a mobile device (e.g. laptop or tablet).<\/p>\n \"Home office\", on the other hand, is a colloquial term that is often used for both forms of work. However, employees do not have a regular right to work from home; this must be agreed between them and their employer. An exception may exist, however, if there is a legal requirement (such as during the coronavirus pandemic) for employers to allow all employees to work from home where this makes sense.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-41233","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nPractical example<\/h2>\n