Volkswagen has a curious strategy to prepare those employees who have always been dedicated to manufacturing combustion vehicles, and who must now start working on electric models. as revealed Bloombergthe electric mobility company has designed a ANDEscape Room for your workers with the aim of reducing their concerns regarding the change of processes and tools that the production of electric vehicles entails.
Gunnar Kilian, head of Volkswagen’s Human Resources area, told the aforementioned media that Making the company’s employees go through an Escape Room is “a fundamental element” in the process of taking them to the world of electric mobility. “For many, the fact that the combustion engine is no longer there is something totally new, and we have to prepare people for a high-voltage environment,” says Kilian. We must bear in mind that the manufacture or even the maintenance of combustion vehicles is very different from that of fully electric vehicles. Mainly because the production process for plug-in vehicles is considerably more digitized.
Curiously, the Escape Room reflects that transition that thousands of employees at the Volkswagen factory in Germany will have to make in the coming months. The workers, in groups of four, will begin the activity in a room set in the 1860s, and will go directly to a much more modern space. There they will have to carry out different tests related to electric vehicles and battery technology.
The Escape Room could prevent Volkswagen from laying off thousands of workers
A total of 22,000 workers are expected to do this Escape Room with the aim of reducing their worries and preparing them for the transition in the development of combustion vehicles to electric vehicles. For the moment, however, heThe activity will be carried out for 1,600 employees assigned to the production of the Volkswagen ID.3which will begin in the middle of this year.
A ANDscape Room to prepare the workers who until now manufactured combustion cars, and who in the coming months will be in charge of producing electric vehicles is a really interesting strategy for several reasons.
Is a much more enjoyable way of training workers. With this, in addition, Volkswagen will not have to do without staff who has no experience in electric mobility. So it can avoid following in the footsteps of Ford, which laid off more than 3,800 workers by dedicating some of its plants solely to making electric cars.