Lonely work

摘要

OLIVER BATE still goes to his office every day on Munich's Koniginstrasse, next to the English Garden, but it is mostly empty. "You are always alone as a ceo," says the boss of Allianz, who took the reins of the 130-year-old insurance giant in 2015. And never more so than during a pandemic, when you are in charge of 147,000 employees in over 70 countries, who are looking after hundreds of thousands of customers, many of whom are in financial despair because of covid-19. "Italy is overwhelmed," says Mr Bate. Only 30 of its several thousand employees in Milan are at the office.