Uses of Time

Last October 9, the Steering Group of the NUST Network - Network of companies for a new working time, met electronically to outline the 2024-2025 roadmap. The priorities for the future focused on the expansion of the Network, the organization of specific training, the reinforcement of the equality and time management advisory service and the visibility of the good practices of the member companies.

The Steering Group of the NUST Network brought them together last October 9 to reflect on and consider the development and activities of the network. It is a local network made up of more than 130 companies and entities of different sizes and sectors of activity aimed at promoting a new work culture and balanced working time management.

Maria Rengel, director of the Barcelona City Council's Feminism and LGBTI Service, was in charge of welcoming and presenting the technical team of the NUST Network and Time Agreement.

The technical team of the Network took stock of the actions of 2024, among which the Workshop: Beyond Time Policies, the conference "How to guarantee the digital disconnection in our companies?, and the participation in the first Summer School of the Time.

Then, those previous commitments and agreements of the network around the Workshops Program and the Impact Program were recovered which proposed, among other strategic lines, the continuity of collaborations with universities, the promotion of tools to facilitate the management in the company or the approach and promotion of good practices in sectors of activity with special challenges for the organization of time such as hospitality and trade.

Some commitments that are reinforced with the strategic objectives that will guide the work of the network in the coming months: a) the expansion of member companies of the NUST Network; b) the promotion of workshops and training pills on key topics in the field of working time; c) the promotion of the advisory service for equality and organization of time and d) the visibility of good practices of the companies of the Network, with particular impact on those organizations that can become referents of change.

During the meeting, some of the upcoming activities were also presented, such as the "Synchronizing Time: Equity and Well-Being in Time Management from an intersectional perspective" workshop scheduled for November 13 in a virtual format and the Annual Meeting of the Time Agreement, which will take place on December 3 from 4.30 pm to 6.15 pm at the Sants District Headquarters. Two activities will deal with the same theme; chronobiology.

This was also a space to present the new informative leaflet, aimed at promoting the Time Agreement and the NUST Network, as well as the different services they offer. This leaflet will be given as complementary material in the different spaces and forums for key participation in the matter of time, as well as through other spaces and services in the city.

The member companies of the steering group of the NUST Network made numerous proposals on topics that are of interest to discuss in the Workshops and that they believe are necessary to address to provide companies with pragmatic instruments.

Impact on telework, digital disconnection or mental health in organizations were just some of the proposed topics that were put on the table, highlighting, however, the need to take into account the diverse realities of the city's organisations, both in terms of the sector of activity and the size of the organizations.

Likewise, the participants emphasized that it is necessary to work with the commitment of the member companies of the Network, as well as to strengthen the visibility of good practices not only from the successes of the measures but also by influencing those policies that have not worked in companies, to avoid mistakes in those organizations that want to implement time management measures.

The session became particularly profitable to mark the future route to advance the right to time in the field of work and leave latent the involvement and active participation of the city's companies that are part of the NUST Network.