Transped 

Europe 

GmbH

Bewertung

Dear valued employee,

Thank you for your valuable feedback, which we would like to address and shed some light from the company’s points of view as well.

Regarding communication and town hall meetings: as mentioned in every meeting, we did start do communicate more openly and in-depth a couple of months ago. Openness does not mean blame, this is not our new style. One of our instruments are the so-called Town Hall meetings, which give us the opportunity to talk about the strategic direction of the company, present you with current results, ask you for your insights and feedback as well as develop a mutual understanding about necessary next steps and goals. We started our transformation and alignment a few months ago with a clear direction – change can be seen as frightening and stressful as it directly affects our work processes and ourselves, but it can – and does! – spark motivation, curiosity and a sense of meaning. All employees are welcome to participate in our new journey and contribute with their ideas, open communication and/or questions.

Similar words can describe our current evaluation of premium systems. Our company leaders have been asked by TM’s to re-evaluate their current premium system. Together with all TM´s and HR we are still working on a new system and share updates with all affected employees regularly. As we are committed to open feedback, we are embracing the suggestions made by our TM’s and are holding regular meetings between our company leaders and TM’s to ensure that the new (but not yet decided or implemented) premium system includes all necessary aspects and sets us up for future success. Nothing is set in stone yet, but we already developed a mutual understanding of our goals and will keep talking.

Speaking of – “talking” is something we as a HR department are really committed to; our doors are always open and we are inviting employees to share feedback and approach us with ideas. Just last week we held a workshop with a few groups of our employees, to discuss current job tasks and responsibilities and how the group feels that those need to change. We talked about what we need to start doing, as well as what we need to stop doing. These are just examples of a new working style that we are implementing; open two-way communication, transparency and new working styles will form our new company culture. The provided feedback has been summarized and presented anonymously to the company leaders. This approach guarantees that feedback cannot only be shared individually, but as a group and anonymously as well. We do feel though, we as a HR department can do even more – and we will involve ourselves more in company-wide decision making processes and act as employee advocates going forward. This is a journey.

This leads us to your last major feedback point – employee’s needs with regards to remote office. Our home office policy has been implemented in 2021 and ensures a company-wide standard. Though we recognize that individual employees express the need for extensive, if not 100% remote work, sometimes for a couple of month’s in length at a time, we do feel that this is not in line with our company’s needs as well as a common feeling of fairness and equality amongst our employees. However, we are committed to improving the well-being and work life balance of our employees, and we are excited to see what the future holds.

Last but not least, everybody is welcome to share feedback openly and direct. You are welcome to show up on our door and talk to us in more depth about your feedback and to suggest improvements. Feel free to reach out personally or via email hr@transped.at.

Best regards
HR Team and company leadership team