„Our long-term success as a company depends on our qualified, highly committed staff. We want to remain an attractive employer going forward – one that creates an open, respectful space in which individuals can develop and that actively promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are convinced that only a workforce that mirrors the many different facets of society can offer the best possible conditions for creativity and productivity, and make us – the United Internet Group – unique.“
RALF HARTINGS
Foreword
United Internet aims to be a fair and attractive employer. Its goal is to recruit managers and employees with specialist skills and technological know-how, to support their continuing development, and to retain them at the Company.
2023, the Top Employers Institute again recognized United Internet as a “Top Employer” – an accolade it has received every year for more than a decade. This certification is awarded to companies that offer their employees attractive working conditions. Criteria used in the evaluation are career opportunities, employer benefits, working conditions, and training and development opportunities.
Regular operations at the data centers owned by IONOS and 1&1 are emissions-free, since they source green electricity.
The network was continuously expanded in recent years and further enhanced for business customers by adding more powerful network technology. This continuous network expansion means that 1&1 Versatel has one of the largest and most powerful fiber-optic networks in Germany and already provides companies in a large number of cities and municipalities with high-speed internet services.
In 2023, United Internet took part for the third time in the “German Diversity Day” organized by Charta der Vielfalt e. V. and held its “Diversity Days” – a two-day virtual in-house conference – in May with almost 30 sessions on the topic. Among other things, the program featured keynote speeches by Management Board members, interactive workshops, reports by staff on their own experiences, and panel discussions. The feedback from the 700 or so employees who took part was extremely positive and it is planned to continue the format in 2024.
For 13 years now, United Internet has ensured that some of its internally used servers and network devices that have reached the end of their service life are recycled in an environmentally sound way by passing them on to refurbishment specialist AfB gGmbH. This organization recycles them professionally or reclaims them for reuse, prolonging the life of the hardware and conserving resources.
United Internet has worked with the United Nations’ Children’s Fund since 2006 in the United Internet for UNICEF foundation to collect donations and recruit new sustaining members.
In 2023, the editorial team for GMX and WEB.DE received the “Nachhaltigkeitspreis Medien Bayern” (“Sustainability Prize for Media in Bavaria”) prize, which was awarded for the first time by the Bavarian Regulatory Authority for New Media. The team won the prize because it had created transparency over a wide area.
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