Sustainability Report 2015
Work-life Balance
Hannover Re would like to enable its employees to strike a balance between their professional challenges and private life and has enshrined therefore the promotion of a healthy work-life balance in its Sustainability Strategy 2015-2017.
The company offers part-time and teleworking models that can be individually structured and flexible working-time arrangements without core hours. In addition, Hannover Re's Human Resources Management division advises employees who are interested in the opportunities for greater employment flexibility. This flexibility at the workplace can make it easier to organise everyday life in phases such as starting a family or preparing for the end of one's professional career, e.g. through partial retirement arrangements. At the Hannover location there are 267 different, highly customised part-time models. In addition, 377 employees have a teleworking position. A variety of part-time working models are also offered at our locations abroad, and teleworking opportunities are available.
Hannover Re attaches special importance to a family-friendly approach. Among other measures, we operate our own company daycare centre at the Home Office location, offering altogether 30 places for all-day care of infants (up to the age of three). As part of our Sustainability Strategy 2015-2017 we are reviewing the need to expand the range of care made available to employees' children at the kindergarten. No additional kindergarten places were required in 2015
With a view to helping employees on parental leave facilitating their re-entry, Hannover Re welcomes efforts by departments to actively maintain contacts with their staff members, e.g. by inviting them to important in-house meetings. On a Group-wide basis, 168 employees of Hannover Re were on parental leave in the year under review, thereof 44 men and 124 women. 37 employees returned to work from their parental leave in 2015, thereof 14 men and 23 women. 32 employees who returned from parental leave in 2014 were still with Hannover Re twelve months later (14 men, 18 women).