Visit of VP Georgieva to Ispra

16/07/2015 , , , No comments
As you may already know, the Commission Vice-President Ms Kristalina Georgieva visited the Ispra site last Friday. During her visit, the VP met a delegation of the Local Staff Committee, which some elected members of R&D were also part of.

As staff representatives we explained to the VP that, following the outcome of the Staff Satisfaction Survey, particular attention should be given to “career” and “well-being”.

The LSC President raised the need to reduce staff frustration – or, in other words, to increase staff motivation – by exploiting all the possibilities that may be implemented at neutral budget (such as Flexitime, Teleworking and Mobility). He also brought to her attention the need to increase efficiency by the provision of more flexible and accessible IT tools in order to avoid that budget savings will negatively affect the quality of the work of JRC staff.

Specifically, the LSC delegation put forward several concrete ideas to the VP. As the JRC is a very complex DG spread over six sites, having staff naturally predisposed towards innovation, it may provide an ideal environment to become a social and organisational test-bed for the whole Commission to promote innovative and creative solutions in favour of improved well-being and productivity. The LSC delegation advanced two proposals: the “Mobility Market” (i.e., easier staff mobility as a normal practice by means of new rules and tools) and the provision of tools such as cloud storage or Connected to be made available and accessible to all staff anytime/everywhere. The LSC President stressed that too often (cyber)security, safety and data protection are used as insurmountable excuses to block otherwise desirable initiatives: flexibility requires an assumption of responsibility, and sometimes it's much more convenient to simply apply rules in a very restrictive way. This overly strict interpretation of rules often brings to inadequate implementation of IT tools causing inaccessibility - or difficult/limited access - from locations other than a desktop Commission PC.

In addition, the LSC President advanced the request to support – under the umbrella of the Fit@work programme the VP launched earlier in May – the construction of a new multipurpose Sports Hall to replace the current very inadequate and obsolete tensostructure. 
It was also mentioned that, following an explicit request of our Director General, the LSC is collecting ideas to increase the Ispra site attractiveness - feel free to send us your own ideas: our staff representatives will bring them to the attention of the LSC!

Overall, also thanks to the very constructive dialogue of your staff representatives, we believe that the VP left Ispra with a good impression of the JRC, its staff, and its activities.




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Whirlpool July and August 2015

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Whirlpool special events on 18 July 2015
and promotions over July and August



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