Adidas France announced to 140 employees at its Strasbourg headquarters during an extraordinary CSE on Thursday that it would consolidate its office operations in Paris by September 2024, a decision condemned by staff and elected officials.
“Adidas France today shared with all its employees the plan to regroup the teams by 2024 on a new website dedicated to employees, customers and partners in Paris.– writes the press release of the company, detailing that the reference was initiated in April. Rooted in Alsace since 1959, Adidas grandly opened its new headquarters in 2018 in Strasbourg’s Wacken business district at the foot of the European Parliament. Employees wishing to remain in Alsace will be offered a telecommuting scheme, with a presence in Paris for three to eight days per month, depending on the positions held. “Our goal is to allow Strasbourg employees to continue their careers at adidas, while strengthening our corporate culture through one site dedicated to everyone.“says Mathieu Sidocpohu, General Manager of Southern Europe.
This causes aunprecedented flexibility in terms of remote work“. “This announcement is heavy for us, it is a lot of emotion, there is solidarity among colleagues, many of them have seniority.“An employee of the brand who has been working for 15 years, who wished to remain anonymous, responded to AFP. “Adidas normalizes…” “A lot of remote work has been offered, but without a local solution: you go to Paris X days a month, but the rest of the time you are alone at home, without your colleagues… Many employees do not understand this logic and want to: output“, he added.
In early June, when the Alsace regional daily The Latest News broke the news of the departure from the Alsace capital, elected Alsatians from several political parties publicly expressed their concern. “We can only oppose this approach and ask that it be reconsidered.“The EELV mayor of Strasbourg Zhanna Barseghyan, LR president of Grand Est region Jean Rotner and other local elected officials wrote in a joint letter. Adidas has not produced in France since the 1990s, but still has 730 employees in France.
Source: Le Figaro
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