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for work”, the plant can react optimally to market requirements and capacity
utilisation; plant operating time can be varied between 60 and 140 hours per
week – independently of the employees’ individual work time. Even during
normal operation, the “BMW formula for work” helps to reduce production
costs significantly. An example: while body shop and assembly are usually
scheduled to operate an average of 80 hours a week, the Leipzig paint shop,
the most capital-intensive section of any automobile plant, will generally run
for more than 120 hours a week. This means fewer machines and lower
capital costs. In the Leipzig paint shop, these are one-third lower than the
industry’s average.
The pattern according to which employees are selected for the plant is also
unconventional. Of course, highly qualified experts are hired for special tasks,
but preference is generally given to applicants who display particularly high
learning ability and will thus be able to swiftly master future leaps in technology.
The classic formula “as young as possible, male whenever possible and as
highly qualified as possible” no longer holds. Instead, the workforce is to be
a healthy mix of young and experienced employees, of men and women. The
oldest newcomer was 59 years old when he was hired; 70 percent of the
BMW employees at the new plant come from Leipzig or the neighbouring
areas of Halle and Bitterfeld; the percentage of female employees is significantly
above the average of the other BMW Group plants.
Classic formulae for applications are outdated – the work-
force should be a healthy mix of young and experienced
employees, of men and women.
It soon becomes obvious that the region’s long-term unemployed include many
excellent potential employees for the BMW plant, but they frequently lack
self-confidence and up-to-date know-how. This puts them at a disadvantage
when competing with employed candidates in the application process.There-
fore, the BMW Group initiates regional projects, such as the programme for
the unemployed known as “Poleposition,” with PUUL GmbH (a company of
the city of Leipzig), in which the long-term unemployed are prepared for job
applications and re-entry into the working world. Result: by the end of 2004,
around 600 of the jobless qualify for an unlimited contract of employment at
the BMW plant.
November 2001. Around 200 architectural offices worldwide take part in the
competition to design the future central building of the Leipzig plant.The ten-
der is based on a 150-page document which describes the requirements in
detail. The building is to be the heart of the future plant.