Responsibility for employees
As a globally active company, Kärcher has an influence on the lives of many people. In our role as an employer and as a family business, we take responsibility for our employees. We take care of their mental and physical well-being and value their work. As part of this, we offer our employees attractive and flexible conditions, exciting jobs and individual opportunities for development. After all, our employees are the foundation of our success.
"It is the people in our company that make success possible" – Alfred Kärcher
Alfred Kärcher described the special relationship with his employees as follows: "It is the people in our company that make success possible." We still live by this principle today. The commitment of our employees is the basis for innovation and quality at Kärcher.
That's why we take responsibility for providing all employees with a positive working environment that takes their needs into account at each stage of life.
At Kärcher, everyone should be able to develop their own potential – regardless of gender, age, nationality, physical and mental abilities, social background, sexual orientation or religion and ideology. Diversity strengthens our cooperation.
Overview: Our commitment to employees
Equal opportunities & diversity
At Kärcher, everyone should be able to develop their own potential – regardless of gender, age, nationality, physical and mental abilities, social background, sexual orientation or religion and ideology. We are proud of the fact that people from 116 nations work together successfully at Kärcher in more than 80 countries. In order to underpin our commitment to a diverse workforce, we have embedded the issue of diversity and inclusion in our corporate mission statement.
Health & safety
Healthy employees are the prerequisite for our company's performance. Kärcher takes the health and safety of its employees extremely seriously. All of our sites have local occupational safety organisations, in order to implement the respective applicable national regulations on safety at work. The numerous local and central health promotion activities include counselling and prevention services on topics such as ergonomics, addiction, mental health and reintegration after serious illness.
Training & development
Kärcher's ambition is to attract new, talented professionals and to fully utilise the potential of existing employees. In doing so, we build on our training programmes, which have grown over the years, and on a standardised talent management process in conjunction with targeted further training. In this way, we drive the establishment and development of the necessary future competencies – based on the Kärcher competency model. It includes the competences required for Kärcher within the categories of Culture and Leading, Change and Innovation, Strategic Orientation, Business Alignment, Collaboration and Skills.
