Social
Responsibility for Ourselves
Our employees are the foundation of the KRÜGER GROUP. They make a central contribution to our success at all our locations worldwide. Therefore, we aim to create a long-term sustainable and humane working environment that promotes and secures the well-being of our employees throughout their entire tenure with the company.
The employees of the KRÜGER GROUP make a central contribution to the company’s success. The goal is to create a long-term sustainable and humane working environment that promotes and secures the well-being of employees.
Approx.
employees
worldwide
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billion €
revenue
Locations
Countries
Our Own Workforce
Our own workforce is a key topic for the KRÜGER GROUP, as working conditions, health, diversity, and qualifications directly influence the company’s performance and future viability. At the same time, challenges arise from demographic developments, a shortage of skilled workers, and changing demands on the working world. From these developments, fields of action for the KRÜGER GROUP are derived that will significantly influence our personnel strategy in the coming years. These include the key topics:
Recruiting
Workforce Planning
Leadership and culture
Skill management and learning
Measures Related to Our Own Workforce
With regard to our own workforce, initial measures have been initiated that address the topics identified as material: working hours, social dialogue, diversity, and health protection and safety.
Working Hours
Flexible working models such as flextime and mobile working enable needs-based organization of working hours and promote work-life balance.
Social Dialogue
Participation and feedback systems are not uniformly established across the Group. Employees are involved in works councils and employee representation bodies depending on the location.
Diversity
People from numerous nations and cultural backgrounds work together at KRÜGER GROUP. We understand this diversity as a strength of our corporate culture.
Health Protection and Safety
Health and safety are high priorities for KRÜGER GROUP. Training, safety campaigns, and health programs strengthen awareness of an active safety culture.
Working Hours
Flexible working models such as flextime and mobile working enable needs-based organization of working hours and promote work-life balance.
Social Dialogue
Participation and feedback systems are not uniformly established across the Group. Employees are involved in works councils and employee representation bodies depending on the location.
Diversity
People from numerous nations and cultural backgrounds work together at KRÜGER GROUP. We understand this diversity as a strength of our corporate culture.
Health Protection and Safety
Health and safety are high priorities for KRÜGER GROUP. Training, safety campaigns, and health programs strengthen awareness of an active safety culture.
Human Rights Strategy
The strategy for dealing with our own workforce is anchored in the overarching Human Rights Strategy. This strategy is based on internationally recognized standards and includes the regular assessment of risks through external audits and internal analyses, the use of binding guidelines, and systematic risk management to comply with human rights due diligence obligations. Additionally, measures are implemented to improve working conditions, health and safety, and to promote diversity and qualifications.
Read in our current report which measures we have implemented in the area of employees and what progress we have been able to achieve.
Download
Sustainability Report 2025
Our Sustainability Report 2025 provides an overview of measures and developments and is available for download here.