New Teleworking Regulation For Cross-Border Commuters

Since the Covid 19 pandemic, companies have been increasingly confronted with the challenge of fulfilling employees' requests and demands for more home office days.

In recent years, companies have tended to grant cross-border workers a maximum of one day per week from home, particularly for social security reasons. During the pandemic and the transitional arrangements until 30 June 2023, home office work could be granted flexibly.

With the new teleworking regulation, which came into force on 1 July 2023, there was great hope that as a company there would be no restrictions on the granting days for working from home. The regulation stipulates that up to 49.9 % of working hours may be worked from home without any change in social security status.