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HARTMANN GROUP 33Staying flexible,ensuring long-term employment.We meet the challenges of demographic change at HARTMANNby providing extensive training, flexibly supporting our employeesin various life stages and offering long-term prospects.The demographic change will further increase the already existing shortageof skilled labor. The HARTMANN GROUP has recognized this and is committedto systematically training and preparing young as well as older peoplefor work at the company over a sustained period of time and to offer themattractive working conditions. It is of great value for HARTMANN as anemployer that our products benefit people and are produced under environmentallysustainable conditions. As an international company with flathierarchies, we promote personal responsibility and support our employeesin meeting professional and private challenges.Parents and children welcomeHARTMANN knows that parents of small children need a great deal ofsupport and family-centered solutions. We therefore help them with flexiblework time models and the opportunity to telework, where employees share ajob, working alternatively either in the company or at home. We also helpparents organize supervision of their children, for example, by reservingplaces in nearby day-care centers and kindergartens and by giving them theopportunity to participate in holiday programs organized by the city ofHeidenheim. “As a last resort and in an emergency that cannot be resolvedin the family, parents can even bring their children to the office,” said theHead of Human Resources Management, Gabriele Müller. “For this purposewe have set up a parent-child work room with a play corner.”Lifelong learning with PEPAt HARTMANN France, lifelong learning is supported by Parcoursd‘Excellence Professionnelle (PEP). Here, a team of our employees andexternal experts defines the requirements for the wide range of careers atHARTMANN France for the next three to five years. Based on this, strengthsand weaknesses of the participating employees are identified and propertraining discussed with them. HARTMANN has introduced this program,which especially addresses older employees, in a first step for employees infield service organizations and back office departments. It will also includeother career fields. “This helps employees to better understand why changesin their daily work are necessary. At the same time we support the employeesso that they can meet the challenges of their jobs also in the future,” saidBernard Grass, Head of Human Resources in France.