Working world
Can you be an integrative company without visitors even realizing that you are one? Yes! The best proof is – us! Whether in building services, administration or catering, 43 percent of our employees are people with disabilities and people with equal opportunities.
Operations Manager Alexander Unold explains exactly what an integration company is: “People with and without disabilities and people of equal status work side by side and hand in hand with us. We don’t make any distinctions.” As a non-profit limited company, it is not only Waldwelt’s mission as an integration company to integrate people with disabilities and people of equal status, but also a matter close to our hearts.
Treating everyone the same will never work. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses – this is also the case at the Waldwelt. Our credo is therefore: every employee should be given what he/she needs to live up to his/her strengths. “As soon as you manage to find the talents of each individual employee so that they can be fully utilized, you’ve made it. Weaknesses become a minor matter,” says Alexander Unold.
He is convinced that Waldwelt, as an integrative company, can also be a role model for other companies. “Many companies are still reluctant to hire people with disabilities and people of equal status because it takes longer than usual to train them,” says Alexander Unold. “The gap is wide, there is a lot of fear of contact. People forget that people with disabilities and people with equal opportunities are worth their weight in gold if they can play to their strengths.”