Integration company

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.

Alexander Unold explains exactly what an integration company is: “People with and without disabilities and people with equal opportunities work side by side and hand in hand with us. We make no 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 its heart.

Treating everyone the same will never work. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses – this is also the case in 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 integration company, can also be a role model for other companies. “Many companies still shy away from hiring people with disabilities and people of the same age because it takes longer than usual to train them,” says Alexander Unfold. “The gap is wide, there is a lot of fear of contact. People forget that people with disabilities and people of equal status are worth their weight in gold if they can play to their strengths.”