We offer our employees attractive solutions to help them achieve a better work-life balance. Our efforts in this area include providing flexible family-friendly options, carrying out effective health promotion, and establishing work-life balance as a permanent part of our corporate culture. In Germany, the range of options and services includes the following:
Childcare: At a number of locations with large numbers of employees, we provide childcare facilities, holiday childcare programs, and parent-and-child offices.
Free advisory and referral services: Through our cooperating partner “awo lifebalance GmbH” and an online service, we support our employees in the areas of childcare (including emergency care), caregiving for family members, and household services.
Employee networks: Through various networks, such as the “Fathers’ Network” and “Stay in contacT”, we provide tips on balancing work and family life, as well as contacts and discussion forums.
Family fund: We support employee projects that help them improve their work-life balance.
Social fund: We provide fast financial aid to employees who find themselves in financial difficulties through no fault of their own. We also offer subsidies for recreational activities for severely disabled children.
Welfare service: Through this foundation, we support employees in emergency situations, such as deaths in the family, serious illness, social crises, and natural disasters. For example, we offer special courses for women suffering from cancer. We also provide assistance for employees’ children who are studying at a university.
Recreation Service: Working through this service, we offer our employees access to reasonably priced vacations at attractive destinations in Germany and Europe – for example, at one of 18 company-owned resorts.
Our complete range of options and services for helping employees achieve a better work-life balance at Deutsche Telekom in Germany can be found at www.telekom.com/work-life.
Work-life balance is also promoted at our national companies. In addition to general options such as mobile-working and flexitime arrangements, individualized arrangements and measures are offered, such as the SmartWork model available at our national company in Croatia. It enables all employees to individually structure their working environment and working conditions. In Hungary, employees can also receive support upon re-entry into working life following parental leave. In Austria, there are company childcare facilities and holiday childcare programs for the employees’ children.
In 2019, T-Mobile US established the “Returnship Program”, an initiative that assists employees in returning to the workplace following leaves of absence. Initially, it was aimed solely at women in tech-centric fields who had taken leaves of absence in order to provide care to family members or stay at home with their children. In 2020, the “Returnship Program” was opened to veterans, in recognition of the difficulties that veterans often encounter in entering (or returning to) the civilian workplace following their military service. This program was expanded further in 2022, with a focus on people who, during the pandemic, have been forced to leave the workplace due to factors such as a lack of childcare for their children. A total of 19 women and four men completed this paid, full-time program between January 2022 and June 2022. Around 70 percent of the participants subsequently found a position at T-Mobile US.
We offer our employees attractive solutions to help them achieve a better work-life balance. Our efforts in this area include providing flexible family-friendly options, carrying out effective health promotion, and establishing work-life balance as a permanent part of our corporate culture. In Germany, the range of options and services includes the following:
Our complete range of options and services for helping employees achieve a better work-life balance at Deutsche Telekom in Germany can be found at www.telekom.com/work-life.
Work-life balance is also promoted at our national companies. In addition to general options such as mobile-working and flexitime arrangements, individualized arrangements and measures are offered, such as the SmartWork model available at our national company in Croatia. It enables all employees to individually structure their working environment and working conditions. In Hungary, employees can also receive support upon re-entry into working life following parental leave. In Austria, there are company childcare facilities and holiday childcare programs for the employees’ children.
In 2019, T-Mobile US established the “Returnship Program”, an initiative that assists employees in returning to the workplace following leaves of absence. Initially, it was aimed solely at women in tech-centric fields who had taken leaves of absence in order to provide care to family members or stay at home with their children. In 2020, the “Returnship Program” was opened to veterans, in recognition of the difficulties that veterans often encounter in entering (or returning to) the civilian workplace following their military service. This program was expanded further in 2022, with a focus on people who, during the pandemic, have been forced to leave the workplace due to factors such as a lack of childcare for their children. A total of 19 women and four men completed this paid, full-time program between January 2022 and June 2022. Around 70 percent of the participants subsequently found a position at T-Mobile US.