BERLIN—Volkswagen AG will restart car plants across Europe next week, offering a pandemic-era blueprint for other global manufacturers that will alter workers’ daily lives and, at least temporarily, relegate productivity to the back seat.
The world’s biggest car maker by sales is issuing new manuals to its global workforce, detailing a list of 100 workplace changes designed to minimize the risk of coronavirus infections. Workers will be asked to take their temperatures from home each morning, change into their factory-floor…