It also has distribution operations across the state line in Fargo, North Dakota. Zutz said the company also is revamping space to make the work environment more conducive to a post-pandemic environment, and it is ramping up the services of its expanded distribution center, which was completed in April 2021.ĭigi-Key has locations in China, Germany, Israel, Japan, Netherlands and two in Minnesota, including Bloomington, Zutz said. The company will be finding answers to these and other questions over the next several months. “We know we're going to be hybrid, but how are we going to operate in that hybrid environment?” He said at this point there remains a lot of unknowns: “Are we going to have schedules that are static or flexible so employees can come in on the days that work best for them? Is it a combination?” “We're using (the phased approach) as a kind of testing ground to help us understand what our true future of work will be,” Zutz said. Employees will rotate days so not all are in the office at the same time. In June and July it will have them come into the office for 10 days a month. Next, in April and May, it had employees return to the office for five days a month. Zutz said the best way the company has found to reintroduce employees to the office is in phases, which it started to do earlier this year by first bringing its management team back into the office. That really just takes place when you're in the workplace.” “But what we feel we've lost by being fully remote, except for our distribution center, is the connection that helped our company really build on a sense of community and some of that high-level collaboration. “We're less concerned about where the work is done” because employees have proven “they can get the work done remotely,” Zutz said. But even so, he said, it will continue to be a hybrid work environment – one of the things the pandemic changed for many companies, no matter their size. With so many employees in one location, the company has found the best way to bring employees back into the office is with a phased approach. Zutz said Digi-Key has around 5,100 employees worldwide, with most of them – about 4,400 – just in Thief River Falls. It couldn’t do it without a plan, and according to Shane Zutz, the company’s vice president of human resources, Digi-Key has a great plan. It’s a good thing the company, which ships electronics supplies all over the world, is up to the challenge.
Thief River Falls, Minnesota-based Digi-Key Electronics has a herculean task – bringing thousands of employees back into the office after working remotely for two years.
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