Flexible working arrangements

DTU has an objective to create working day flexibility for the individual employee. Your primary workplace is campus, but you can agree with your immediate manager that you can also work from elsewhere.

At DTU, we have a basic trust in all our staff acting responsibly within their own area of responsibility and working efficiently and with a satisfactory work performance regardless of their workplace. This approach is in accordance with the self-management concept that is a fundamental element in DTU’s work culture. 

Online availability

DTU’s open-door policy means that we are always available for partners, students, and society. Digitalization enables us to supplement physical attendance with online availability.

Online availability and working from home are in accordance with DTU’s wish to contribute to a sustainable transition of society in the form of less travel activity to and from meetings and less transport to and from the workplace.  

Dialogue between manager and employee

It varies what flexibility means for the individual employee. All employees at DTU are entitled to a consultation with their own manager about how they can create a flexible working life, and how flexibility can create a balance between work considerations and colleagueship.

DTU recommends that managers and employees avoid agreeing on fixed weekly remote work days. Fixed remote work days can be limiting in terms of work organization, planning shared activities, and do not support a flexible work community.

Dialogue on cohesion 

DTU encourages you to discuss locally what characterizes your working community, which initiatives you prioritize to strengthen cohesion, and how you organize yourselves in terms of knowledge sharing, overview, and resource distribution.

Dialogue in local collaboration committees

In spring 2022, the experience with flexible working arrangements was evaluated in the Cooperation and Joint Consultation Committee (HSU) and the Corporate Work Environmental Committee (KAMU). 
In connection with this evaluation, it was agreed that, at DTU, we will continue to learn from the intentions described in the sub-policy for working day flexibility and in the sub-policy for transport and meeting activity (August 2020).