Coronavirus - Update: Home-Office, Teaching and Research

Until 30 April, all employees who can work from home should continue to do so. How to proceed afterwards will be announced in due course! On 6 April, the federal government presented a step-by-step plan for starting to return to a state of normality - on the basis that the measures announced so far prove effective and that social distancing rules are still fully complied with. Yesterday, the federal minister of education, science and research outlined a pathway for universities, giving us yet further guidance for our future approach. Even now, we have to plan in small steps, because fundamental regulations are not being lifted and new ones are still being added almost daily. Until 30 April, all employees who can work from home should continue to do so. How to proceed afterwards will be announced in due course! If it is not possible for you to perform any of your duties from home, any existing time credit that you have built up must be reduced in a spirit of solidarity with our university. Holiday allowances, especially any unused holiday from previous years, must also be used up.