ECE AS AN EMPLOYER
SPACE FOR THE FURURE
ECE’s mission as an employer: giving talented people the space they need to develop. It’s only by offering the right conditions and individually tailored development and progression opportunities that we can attract, retain, and unlock the full potential of top talent in a challenging labor market.
ECE is a popular employer in the real estate sector for students, career starters, seasoned professionals, and managers alike – as is regularly confirmed by the many awards we receive. In 2024, ECE was once again named a Top Employer following an audit by the independent Top Employers Institute. The institute assessed ECE’s employee-centric approach and was especially impressed by our talent strategy, onboarding process, professional development opportunities, and commitment to social responsibility. Other employer awards that ECE won in 2024 include the Trendence Award for our career-boosting trainee programs, the “Fair Company” badge in recognition of the fair, attractive conditions we offer for interns, and berufundfamilie certification following a successful audit of our measures to support employees with families.
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In 2024, ECE was once again named a Top Employer.
ECE has also been awarded a “Top Company” badge on kununu, the leading German-language employer review site. This badge is only given to employers who come highly recommended in independent, authentic employee reviews and confirms that employee satisfaction at ECE is a cut above the industry average.
17 %
LOWER SICKNESS RATE
2023 (3.9 %) VS. 2022 (4.7 %)
> 110
YOUNG TALENTS (AS OF JANUARY 2024)
> 16.000
VISITS TO THE ECE GYM IN 2023
“FOCUS ON DIVERSITY”
ECE attaches great importance to diversity, since diverse teams increase both employee satisfaction and companies’ performance. Our diversity management focuses on equal opportunities, tolerance, and talent development.
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ECE’s new diversity managers, Tanja Ćirić-Ritter and Christiane Fenle, have been job-sharing the role since spring 2024.
SUPPORTING VOLUNTEERING
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Center Manager Cindy Häßlein, cofounder and CEO of Wichtel Challenge Deutschland e. V., was one of the winners of the last “Volunteering and You” competition in 2022.
As a socially responsible company, ECE supports our employees’ volunteering activities. At the start of 2024, we invited submissions for a third round of our internal competition “Volunteering and You.” Any employees volunteering on projects for a nonprofit organization can apply. Up to five ambassadors selected by a panel of ECE judges each receive 1,000 euros for their project. //
„SPACE FOR HEALTH”
ECE offers a variety of services and special initiatives to promote good health and exercise, including a free gym (“Unser Sportplatz”) at our Hamburg campus, discounts at selected gyms throughout Germany, a bike hire scheme (“JobRad”), regular wellbeing surveys, and sponsorship for employee teams who enter corporate running events.
„Fit in 2024“
“Fit in 2024” is a new project designed to improve the health of shopping center employees as part of the DAK-Gesundheit program. Since the start of the year, any interested centers have been able to apply for funding to help create healthier workplaces and develop targeted measures to promote staff health.
ECE also held workshops for employees aged 55+ in five different regions so that we could better understand their needs, particularly those of older staff working in technical roles, and offer them suitably tailored health measures.
Impressions
„Dein Raum Zur Entfaltung“
AN IDEAL WORKING ENVIRONMENT
Creating space, inspiring people: As an employer, ECE is committed to giving our employees space for continuing personal and professional development. We also offer a whole host of options to promote better health and work–life balance. Theresult is an ideal working environment for our employees – at every stage of their careers and in line with market requirements.
“SPACE FOR DEVELOPMENT”
Individually tailored opportunities for personal and professional development have always had great importance at ECE. For our CPD, we’re increasingly opting for self-directed learning formats with a mix of in-person training and e-learning. For interns, apprentices, trainees, and students doing industry placements or working alongside their studies, we offer the Young Talents@ECE program, which helps them to build their network at the company and develop their skill.
“SPACE FOR FAMILY”
For a good balance between work and private life ECE offers it employees a consultancy and placement service from pme Familienservice, a childcare allowance, a children’s holiday program and sabbatical opportunities.