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We accordingly cultivate a corporate culture with job satisfaction, enthusiasm and chal-lenging jobs as its main pillars. Tis also helps us to attract the new personnel we need to meet demand from our clients.

We encompass a great variety of expertise and experience. Viewed overall, this rep-resents a great strength. Both physical and digital arenas have accordingly been estab-lished where staf can share their knowledge with each other. Courses and technical

meetings are examples of such fora. Another conscious decision is to staf projects with a mixture of older personnel and talented young people. Such measures create the basis for innovation in the projects and new insights for each individual. Where expertise development is concerned, individual targets are set for each employee.

Flexibility is also important for enhanc-ing job satisfaction. In a hectic world, it is important for us to make it possible for employees to combine work and family life in the best possible way.

Our various regions are constantly organis-ing outings as well as sporting and cultural activities. Many of these are initiated by employees themselves. A great mood pre-vailed when more than 500 personnel paid a weekend visit to London during September. Such shared experiences foster team spirit and a sense of belonging.

We have seen strong growth in our work-force during recent years. Assimilating so many new employees into our culture and mode of working represents a challenge.

Nevertheless, we are accomplishing this suc-cessfully, with recruits quickly fnding their place and getting out on assignments.

We regularly investigate developments in our working environment and well-being among our employees, and it is gratifying to see that we have so far succeeded. Our most recent employee survey showed a high level of job satisfaction. Among other questions, respondents were asked whether they were proud to work for the company, whether they would recommend a job there to friends and whether they regarded their colleagues as competent.

Our goal is to have the lowest personnel turnover in our industry. We have so far met this target. For a consultancy like ours, the workforce represents our principal asset. We will therefore be maintaining our concentra-tion on job satisfaction, expertise and enthu-siasm among our employees.

The most important reason for our progress is the enthusiasm and knowledge of our employees. Motivated, committed and competent personnel in a stable organisation are signifcant for creating good fnancial results.

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