Work/Life Balance

Work is just one part of life. The term "work/life balance" overtly takes up this notion. Enabling its employees to find the right balance between work and private life is a permanent challenge for any successful company. Both staff and company benefit to an equal extent. The right balance encourages employee satisfaction, providing for reduced absenteeism and increased productivity.

The Volkswagen Group employs numerous projects to support its staff, for example in reconciling time spent with the family with time spent at work. Both in production and in the field of services, we offer a variety of different part-time and shift models. But childless employees also have their own individual ideas about harmony between work and private life, and want their employer to take their interests into account. Creative employment solutions with flexible, individual working time models have been available for all members of staff for many years.

To help parents achieve that often difficult balance between work and family, some factories are able to offer special child care facilities, which can prove to be especially useful. That creates motivation to re-enter the workforce.