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One core element of our occupational health management is
the Audi Check-up, which was initiated in 2005 and has been
available since summer 2006. By the end of 2014, over 70,000
check-ups had been carried out at the various locations’ health
centers under this individual program for the prevention and
early detection of health risks.
/ JOB AND FAMILY
AUDI AG regards it as an important task to help its employees
achieve a balance between work and family life. Audi gives
parents additional flexibility at work by offering a wide range
of flexible worktime models as well as various child care
arrangements under the “Audi Spielraum” program. In the
2014 fiscal year, a total of 106 places were reserved for Com-
pany employees for regular child care at daycare centers close
to the Ingolstadt plant. In Neckarsulm, the number of places
at partner establishments was increased from 60 to 73.
We also offer our employees in Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm
professional child care during the summer vacation under the
“Audi Summer Children” program. In Ingolstadt, Audi has also
teamed up with the “Local Alliance for the Family” to offer
child care arrangements in the other school vacations. In 2014,
employees at the Neckarsulm site were offered child care for
the first time during the Easter and spring breaks alongside
the summer and fall vacations. Over 600 children and young
people attended the vacation programs offered in Ingolstadt
and Neckarsulm in the year under review. AUDI AG also arranges
flexible short-term care in Ingolstadt for employees’ children
aged between two and 14 years. Under this arrangement,
children can be registered up until 7 p.m. on the previous
evening – a beneficial arrangement especially for those em-
ployees who have professional commitments at short notice,
on days when the normal facilities are closed and at the start
or end of the working day.
There were 1,996 employees on parental leave in the 2014
fiscal year. 63 percent of those taking this leave were men.
Our employees took an average of around ten months’ parental
leave, with women taking 23 months on average and men an
average of two months.
/ WOMEN AT AUDI
Under our corporate strategy, we attach particular importance
to attracting female employees to Audi and promoting their
careers. In light of this, in 2011 we made a voluntary com-
mitment with precise targets to achieve a long-term increase
in the proportion of women in the Company at all levels –
from apprentices all the way up to top management. Through
this measure, we are increasing diversity and promoting the
creative and innovative potential of our workforce. When
hiring academic graduates of both genders, we look at the
proportion of female graduates in each subject. Averaged
across all courses of study relevant for the Company, the
target proportion of women among new recruits has been
identified as around 30 percent. In this way we also aim to
steadily raise the proportion of women managers at the vari-
ous management levels.
We have already launched several programs to foster an inter-
est in technical matters among girls from an early age and to
recruit qualified women to our Company. AUDI AG organizes
various workplace discovery days such as the “Girls’ Day,” the
“Female Researchers” or “Girls for Technology” camp to attract
talented school students.
In addition to supporting women’s networks, the Company
helps talented female employees along their career path with
the “You and Audi” program series. For example, we offer a
mentoring program for high potentials, along with various
seminars and networking opportunities. We are also working
to continuously improve the framework within which profes-
sional and family life can be balanced.
Proportion of women at AUDI AG
in % 2014 2013
Total proportion of women 14.2 14.1
Apprentices 26.9 25.2
of which industrial apprentices 23.3 22.1
of which clerical trainees 81.7 79.4
Management 8.3 8.0