Governance

It is important to us that both internal and external cooperation is based on mutual respect. Together with our employees, we want to create a positive working environment in which no one is disadvantaged because of their gender, age, disability, nationality, skin color, religion, ideology, or sexual orientation. No form of discrimination, harassment, or abuse will be tolerated, and any such behavior will be acted on both internally and under applicable laws. After all, an appreciative, integrative, and vibrant corporate culture forms the foundation for commitment, innovation, and long-term corporate success.

We are committed to creating a working environment that is characterized by openness, mutual respect, and team spirit. The focus is on promoting cohesion – both within and across sites – as well as transparent dialog between employees and management.

In order to promote internal networking and strengthen identification with the company, various activities were successfully implemented or continued in the reporting period:

• Language courses: By offering language courses, we not only support the individual development of our employees, but also intercultural cooperation in an international context.
• Summer get-together with families and winter party: These events create space for informal encounters across departmental boundaries and deliberately include families in order to promote social cohesion.
• Cross-sites events (e. g. sales meetings): Events that bring together employees from different sites and departments promote cross-departmental dialog and a mutual understanding of tasks and challenges.
• Management video update: This digital communication format ensures that managers regularly and transparently provide information about current developments and strategic topics – an important contribution to an open corporate culture and to strengthening trust in the company’s management.
• „Meet the Team“ video series: In this regular series, individual departments and colleagues are introduced in more detail. It offers insights into tasks and cooperation and promotes cross departmental networking.
• Location-based activities: Joint activities at individual sites bring local teams closer together and strengthen the sense of unity on location.

These activities promote respectful cooperation and strengthen the sense of community across hierarchical and location boundaries. We will continue to invest in the development and maintenance of our corporate culture in future. In the event of important changes in the company, we provide information as early as possible and in accordance with the situation – for example through managers, employee events, and our employee representatives.

Our attitude is summarized in our internal Code of Conduct. We are committed to promoting a culture of transparency, integrity, and accountability and encourage all employees to report their concerns about possible violations of company policies or laws through our internal whistleblower system.

In addition to the main topic of a good corporate culture, other aspects of good corporate governance are also important to us, which we set out and put into practice.