Messe Düsseldorf occupies number 82 in a ranking of Germany’s 100 most family-friendly employers, published on October 17 by the magazine freundin and the employers’ rating platform kununu. The ranking is based on ratings given by current and former employees and applicants on the kununu website. Messe Düsseldorf received 175 ratings and a recommendation rate of 97%, with 4.3 out of 5 possible points. This makes it Germany’s trade fair company with the highest level of staff satisfaction, and the only one that has made it to the top 100 of Germany’s most family-friendly companies. This third survey of the most family-friendly companies in Germany covered over 175,000 businesses and was based on more than 1.6 million ratings. The following criteria were used for the assessment of each company’s family-friendliness: Managers’ behaviour, working atmosphere, work-life balance, equal opportunities, career and CPD, salaries and social benefits, flexible working hours, availability of childcare, and company pension scheme.
“I’m very pleased that Messe Düsseldorf has achieved this distinction. The compatibility of work and family is getting more and more important and can be a decisive factor when a person chooses their employer,” says Werner M. Dornscheidt, CEO of Messe Düsseldorf, commenting on the results of the study. “For us as employers it’s important to be family-friendly as we seek to attract the best staff and to ensure that our workforce are motivated and productive. A good work-life balance increases a person’s general satisfaction which, in turn, has a direct impact on their productivity at work,” says Dornscheidt. “This ranking and the ratings we’ve received from our workforce show that our staff are happy with us. This is also reflected, for instance, in the large numbers of staff who have been with Messe Düsseldorf for a long time. Traditionally, it’s always been important for us to keep an eye on people’s needs and to make sure that what we offer is suitable and contemporary, in collaboration with the works council.”
For a digitised company like Messe Düsseldorf, this includes part-time working models, as well as the option of working from home once a week, using corporate hardware. During parental leave it is also possible to handle certain business activities entirely from home. But Messe Düsseldorf offers its workforce even more: Staff are entitled to a certain proportion of places for their children at the nearest council-run nursery, and Messe Düsseldorf also works with the PME Family Service, an organisation which supports employees in combining work and private life. Thanks to this cooperation, staff have a variety of things on offer, some of them for free. They include one-off assistance such as Saturday childcare in the run-up to Christmas, emergency childcare during strike action or while a child or parent is ill, and one-week holiday clubs, subsidised by the company. The Family Service also supports carers when they need it, as well as giving advice about problems, conflict situations and personal crises.
3,230, incl. spaces
Information about Messe Düsseldorf as an employer:
www.messe-duesseldorf.de/karriere
https://www.kununu.com/de/messe-duesseldorf
