Associates and Young Talent

Associates are keen to harmonize the demands of career and family, and it is the company’s responsibility to provide the framework that allows them to do so. Offering the relevant programs is a key advantage in the race to hire skilled staff. 

To allow its associates to plan their working hours flexibly, Bosch offers its associates over 100 part-time working models, telecommuting options, and help with childcare. In future, we aim to provide more support for associates to help them harmonize their working and private lives.

Individual part-time contracts – often in combination with telecommuting – allow associates to return to work earlier after parental leave. During parental leave, many associates take advantage of our part-time solutions, ranging from a one- to a four-day working week. In 2007, 200 men in Germany took paternity leave. Overall, around 26 percent of women associates and some 22 percent of women managers choose to take advantage of our part-time programs.

In Germany, all Bosch locations work with the Familienservice, an independent, external service provider that helps locate child minders, nannies, or au-pairs for associates. We have also set up an internal childcare exchange on the intranet. Activities such as holiday camps for the children of associates or childcare facilities run with neighboring companies round off the many options available to our associates.

However, the dependents of our associates often need help, too. Therefore, we have started a pilot project which, in addition to providing childcare, also helps our associates care for sick or elderly family members.