Rental payment processing system PayProp has given its employees the choice of where they want to work from in future.

From July, all 134 employees of PayProp, its Swiss parent company Humanstate, and Humanstate’s charitable foundation GivenGain, were given the choice.

Staff in the United Kingdom, South Africa, United States, Canada and Switzerland can now work from home, while travelling, in corporate and group offices, on a beach or anywhere they wish.

André Holtshausen, PayProp UK CEO, said:

“We trust our employees to make the right decision both for them and the company.

“But it is prudent to monitor the situation to make sure we don’t see any loss of productivity.”

“I’m proud that our team has continued to tackle their workload while adapting to this new way of working.

“It’s also great to hear from colleagues that time which used to be wasted on commuting has been put to better use, allowing them to achieve a more harmonious work/life balance.”

Group Executive Chairman Johannes van Eeden says the company was looking at distributed working even before Covid accelerated the decision to proceed with it.

“As a global company, we were already used to working together at a distance and had all of the technology in place to do so effectively.

“Now, even against the backdrop of a global pandemic, we’re seeing how distributed work is making us more efficient and more productive than ever.”

Employees certainly seem to favour the new arrangements. A survey of the Humanstate group found that 46% of employees planned to work almost exclusively outside the office even after the pandemic, while a similar proportion wanted to split their time between offices and other locations going forward.

“Humanstate’s mission has always been to remove the barriers that divide us.

“Becoming a borderless distributed organisation is another step towards achieving that – in a way that benefits both ourselves and our clients, ” says Van Eeden.