Annual Report 2022

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Employment Structure, Compensation and Social Benefits

The company pursues a flexible personnel-planning strategy in order to deal with production peaks and economic downturns, while at the same time protecting its permanent staff. If measures to reduce personnel costs become necessary, these are decided in close consultation with employee representatives. WACKER regularly informs its employees of current trends within and outside of the Group that could affect business development. Employees receive timely, comprehensive information on material changes in operations, with the company observing its respective national and international duties of disclosure.

Of all employees, 66.3 percent work in Germany, and 33.7 percent in other locations worldwide. Information on the number of employees, personnel costs and retirement benefits is included in the combined management report.

Refer to the section entitled Further Information on R&D, Employees, Procurement, Production, Sales and Marketing.

Personnel costs included outlays for social benefits and the company pension plan totaling €312.6 million (2021: €319.9 million). Aside from a base salary, employees usually receive variable compensation. This voluntary payment to both payscale and non-payscale employees is tied to the attainment of corporate goals.

Jobs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2022

 

2021

 

2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Number, groupwide

 

15,725

 

14,406

 

14,283

Germany

 

10,424

 

10,006

 

10,099

International

 

5,301

 

4,400

 

4,184

International (%)

 

33.7

 

30.5

 

29.3

New recruits groupwide

 

2,541

 

1,340

 

798

New recruits groupwide (%)

 

16.2

 

9.3

 

5.6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2022

 

2021

 

2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Employment contracts, groupwide

 

15,725

 

14,406

 

14,283

Permanent employment contracts

 

14,504

 

13,873

 

13,845

Temporary employment contracts

 

1,221

 

533

 

438

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2022

 

2021

 

2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Temporary workers, groupwide

 

188

 

150

 

123

Of whom Germany

 

122

 

114

 

92

Of whom international

 

66

 

36

 

31

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ratio1 of temporary workers, groupwide (%)

 

1.2

 

1.0

 

0.9

Ratio of temporary workers, Germany (%)

 

1.2

 

1.1

 

0.9

Ratio of temporary workers, international (%)

 

1.2

 

0.8

 

0.7

1

Ratio of temporary workers to employees, groupwide

Employee Turnover

Good social benefits, competitive compensation and motivating work make WACKER an attractive employer. That is evident in our employees’ many years of service with us. The average length of service in Germany (permanent staff) was 17.4 years (2021: 18.3 years). The average length of service of WACKER’s executive personnel was 20.8 years.

Employee Turnover Rate

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

%

 

2022

 

2021

 

2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Germany

 

1.1

 

2.5

 

0.9

International

 

9.5

 

11.0

 

7.5

Group

 

3.7

 

5.0

 

2.7

In its annual satisfaction survey of chemical-industry executives, the VAA (German Chemical Industry Association of Academic and Management Employees) ranked WACKER 12th out of the 22 companies assessed. In the reporting year, VAA member executives gave WACKER an overall score of 2.9, with 1.0 being the highest (in the previous year, WACKER had taken 14th place with a score of 3.0). The average grade for all of the companies surveyed was 2.8, as it was in the previous year.