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Balancing
BerufCareer
und Familie
and Family im Einklang
Foreword
Foreword
Audit: Achieving a balance between career and family
Working hours, workplace
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Service for families
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Individual Employee Advice Service
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Career and care
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Family-oriented management
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Career or family? Career and family!
These two areas are growing ever closer together; if we look at working hours alone,
Our participation in the „berufundfamilie audit“ is designed to create the optimum
the line between work and personal life is becoming increasingly more flexible. We
conditions for employees and Boehringer Ingelheim. It is important to us to know that
are aware of the changes in the concept of social values and the challenges presen-
our staff are content.
ted by demographic developments and are keen to see these as an opportunity. We
invest great effort in research, development, production and sales worldwide. We
Boehringer Ingelheim needs innovative, creative, flexible, motivated and reliable em-
are particularly concerned about the health of our employees and their safety at the
ployees if it is to continue its successful development. The family-oriented activities
workplace. Yet, we also give our employees active support in terms of family-related
we offer encourage an atmosphere conducive to dependability and mutual support in
and social affairs in an effort to help continually improve the balance between career
a forward-looking company, thus promoting a happy work-life balance.
and family, be it in terms of child care or caring for family members.
Our family gives us the support we need in our career while our career gives us
the support we need in the family. Career and family at once compete and com-
Prof. h.c. Dr. Wolfram Carius
plement each other. This is what prompted Boehringer Ingelheim to introduce a
Member of the Board of Managing Directors
range of employee-oriented benefits that help us balance career and family.
Corporate Board Division Human Resources and Operations
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Audit: Achieving a balance between career and family
Boehringer Ingelheim is not paying mere lip service when it claims to aim for optimum
working conditions for every employee. That is why we take advantage of the tool
known as the „berufundfamilie audit“ in an effort to find solutions that meet the
individual needs of our staff in terms of working hours, organization of work, human
resources development or services for families. Boehringer Ingelheim sees this audit
as a strategic management tool and as a serious voluntary commitment to the further
development of its family-oriented personnel policy. It helps us select the right
approaches and methods to achieve a balance between company requirements and
employee satisfaction. This is very important to us because we will only improve
by combining efforts.
Career and family audit
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Working hours
workplace
Flexi-time
Trust-based working hours
Part-time work
Flexible working hours
Telework
Rigid working hours would seriously hamper many employees. Different personal
Part-time work
interests, changes in family circumstances (e.g. children or relatives in need of care)
Another possibility is part-time work where company and personal circumstances
- the flexible working hours at Boehringer Ingelheim allow for all of these.
favour this solution. In view of its family-friendly personnel policy, Boehringer
We want to help motivate our employees to assume responsibility for fulfilling
Ingelheim is open to variable working hours-volume, organized according to hours
the tasks required of them by organizing their working hours to suit their own per-
or weekdays.
sonal needs.
Telework
Flexi-time, trust-based working hours
Depending on the job profile, we enable employees to move their workplace to
Where company requirements allow, employees have very wide scope every day
their own home. This can be on a full-time basis or employees can split their time
within which to complete their work: Flexi-time with no core time. Trust-based
between the office and home. The possibility of working from a home office is a re-
working hours are also possible in some areas. In both cases, employees only have
flection of the trust in responsible employees. And we see this as our way of helping
to guarantee that they do their work reliably.
assuage otherwise difficult family situations.
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Working hours
Workplace
Parental leave
Parental leave
A child is expected and born, changing so much for father and mother. Individual
arrangements may be made for parental leave (up to the child‘s third birthday) from
full leave to part-time work. We clarify this in personal planning talks - and discuss
later reintegration. If required, we also provide regular information and further training. Employees also remain in touch with the company through access to the Intranet. Whether work is completely or partially suspended - young parents can rest
assured that their relationship with the company will remain unaffected. Parents on
parental leave are not forgotten at Boehringer Ingelheim.
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Service for families
Crèches
Child care in an emergency
Child care - important chapter in our service for families
Ferienakademie
Child care plays a vital role when balancing career and family. Boehringer Ingelheim
offers a number of services to bring relief.
Well looked after in the crèche
Thanks to the cooperation with the Hospital of the Holy Spirit and the Waldorf
Our cooperation with external professionals offers free care in the home or at a
Kindergarden in Biberach and with the town of Ingelheim, we can help parents have
day-care facility for children from nine weeks of age - immediate assistance that is
their children accepted for the crèche. And we do so gladly given the first-class
always welcome.
management at both facilities. The crèches offer the best care and facilities possible.
School holidays – and then what?
The children will love it and the parents can relax and get on with their work.
The summer holidays can be very long if parents have to return to work after their
When the regular child-carer can‘t make it
holiday, but the children are still off for a few weeks yet. We offer an attractive
Illness or exceptional circumstances can suddenly complicate life for anyone.
high-standard leisure programme for „Boehringer children“ in the Ferienakademie.
What do parents do if they unexpectedly have problems finding someone to look
While it still allows for fun and entertainment, the focus is on conveying information
after their child? Even then, Boehringer does not leave its employees in the lurch.
playfully through courses geared to technical-scientific subjects.
Service
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Service for families
Take-away meals
Laundry service
Invaluable services
At Boehringer Ingelheim, the balance between career and family goes without
saying; this prompts us to make day-to-day life easier for our employees through
a number of household services. These include take-away meals, dry cleaning and
laundry services, relocation assistance, accommodation service and company loans.
An appetizing solution: take-away meals from the company
Work commitments also make it difficult to cook for children and other family at
Dry cleaning and laundry? Just go to the Service Point!
home. The take-away meals available from the staff restaurants in Ingelheim and
Washing and ironing is not always the preferred after-work activity! Here too,
Biberach solve that problem too. Every day, different freshly cooked, packed and
Boehringer Ingelheim aims to make life easier for its employees. They simply have
chilled meals are available for our employees; the meals then simply have to be
to take their clothes to the Service Point on the company premises and collect them
reheated at home. This saves so much time and allows you to dish up a tasty meal
again later: freshly washed, laundered and ironed. Cooperation with professional
despite the time constraints.
services guarantees good work.
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Making sure you find accommodation
Service for families
Search for accommodation
A good workplace also implies accommodation where you feel at home. Boehringer
Relocation service
Ingelheim helps smooth the way, be it with relocation or the search for accommodati-
Company loans
on near the workplace.
When money‘s involved . . .
Assistance in the search for accommodation
We can also help when employees face an exceptional financial challenge.
Our company helps employees find accommodation by providing furnished apartments and flats until they have found permanent accommodation. These flats can
Car? A beautiful home? A company loan can help
also help temporarily when company employees face an emergency if they are forced
Building your own house, buying an apartment, decorating, laying down a deposit on
to move out of their accommodation unexpectedly. Our in-house Intranet also offers
a rental, buying a new car - it all costs money and we don‘t always have enough when
further assistance in the search for accommodation with a list of rentals in the town
we need it. We want to stand by our employees here too in order to enable them to
and surrounding area.
enjoy as harmonious a personal environment as possible. Different forms of loans, in
part-payments even interest-free, are tailored to suit individual needs.
Our relocation service makes everything easier
New employees or employees transferring to another Boehringer site have come to
When things get tight: debt advice service
appreciate the company‘s relocation service. Boehringer Ingelheim uses experienced
We also feel welfare includes lending a helping hand when employees are in financial
carriers. They guarantee that household effects are moved reliably and punctually
difficulties. The company‘s debt advice service will work closely with employees to
from the old to the new address, be it in Germany, Europe or overseas.
find solutions to financial problems and open up new positive perspectives.
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Debt advice service
Individual Employee Advice
Service
Coaching
From personal problem to solution
Seminars
We all live in a world that is constantly changing – both at work and in our private lives
When can one benefit from such support?
– that requires a marked degree of personal stability and mobility. Difficult and critical
The Individual Employee Advice Service can help when individual performance within
phases are just as much a part of life as the good times.
a team begins to fluctuate, in the case of conflict, if one fears colleagues are sick or
showing signs of addiction, when staff have to prepare for new tasks and changes, or
We can usually cope with most difficult situations. Yet, there are moments when
where stress and mental problems put performance at risk. In many other situations,
people need the support of their family, superior or colleagues in an effort to restore
the Advice Service can help relieve the pressure, for instance on reintegration after
order to their lives.
illness or in the search for a suitable therapist, clinic or other professional department.
At our company, the Individual Employee Advice Service may be the ideal contact in
The Individual Employee Advice Service is a reflection of the corporate culture of
such critical situations. In Ingelheim and Biberach, we offer professional advice and
Boehringer Ingelheim
support in developing effective solutions.
The company endeavours to foster the well-being and contentment of its employees.
In addition to other employee-oriented services, the Individual Employee Advice Ser-
Talks remain strictly confidential. It is important to us to ensure a positive atmosphere and
vice also helps staff cope with work-related or personal crises effectively by lending
offer constructive solutions to problems, particularly in the face of tricky constellations.
professional support.
Individual Employee
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Career and care
Information
Seminars
Advice
The challenge of caring
The Individual Employee Advice Service at Boehringer Ingelheim includes assistance
when it comes to looking after elderly relatives in need of care. A subject that is
assuming ever greater significance given that the life expectancy of elderly people
continues to increase and almost half of all family members caring for another relative
are still working. A relative in need of care can put an enormous strain on the life-work
balance. It often happens unexpectedly and can often endure for a very long time. This
primarily affects people from middle age on.
and special facets of care and about the financial and legal implications. If you need
help, please contact our Individual Employee Advice Service in Biberach or in Ingelheim. They can help further by providing more detailed information and by putting
you in touch with external specialists.
Individual solutions
Information, seminars
We know how the need for care can cause severe mental strain and time pressure,
We offer our employees assistance with a substantial package of measures. Basic
particularly in light of the different potential degrees of severity. As we aim to balance
information can be readily accessed in the Intranet under the heading „The 20 most
the needs of our employees with the needs of the job, we are prepared to develop
important questions“. We organize intensive seminars at the company on the basic
individual solutions which can bring relief for the individual members of staff.
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Importance of family-oriented management
Impressum:
Boehringer Ingelheim
Pharma GmbH & Co.KG
Human Resources Germany
The balance between career and family finds its roots in our Lead & Learn approach
to management. The future of the company depends increasingly on the innovation,
flexibility, motivation and commitment of our employees. That is why we give top
priority to family-oriented management which takes account of the different phases in
our employees‘ lives.
Keeping an open mind to our employees‘ individual needs is the concern and commitment of our management at all levels. Within their own areas of responsibility, they allow for the basic conditions enabling staff to balance career and family in the different
phases through life. Despite our genuine joint efforts, it will not always be possible to
come up with the perfect solution, and company interests will not always be possible
to reconcile with employees‘ individual interests.
However, a family-friendly approach combined with a willingness to accept flexible,
individual solutions on the one hand and employees committed to the company on
the other - that allows for a productive balance between giving and taking, between
performance and personal latitude.
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Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG
Binger Straße 173
55216 Ingelheim am Rhein
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG
Birkendorfer Straße 65
88397 Biberach/ Riß
www.boehringer-ingelheim.com
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