Work-life-balance

Work-life balance is closely associated with the right type of child care. The right type of child care for an employee’s individual job and family situation is the critical question. Deutsche Post DHL supports employees here by offering extensive family services.

The Family Service provides the following assistance and helps, among other things, with the search for:

• Long-term child care (in part with the company’s own facilities)
• Temporary care
• Care during special situations and emergencies
• Vacation programs

The Group continuously expands the range of services to provide support to employees as needed.

Deutsche Post DHL helps all employees get back to work after taking a family-related timeout. To make this return to the job as simple as possible, we will offer you the opportunity to do such things as attend information events or further training while you are still on leave. It is also possible to temporary fill in for people on vacation or sick leave. After you go back to work, flexible work schedules and help with the organization of child care further promote the Work-life balance.

With "YEP!", we have created a really attractive option for Group employee’s children who are 15- to 18-years old: During the "YEP!" summer weeks, your children will live for four weeks with the family of an employee of Deutsche Post DHL in Brazil, Chile, Japan, Portugal, Spain or the United States. In 2009, Mexico, Thailand and Hungary will be available for the first time. In return, children from Group employees in these countries spend four weeks with Deutsche Post DHL families in Germany.

The "YEP!" scholarship year offers children the opportunity to spend an entire school year in another country and to live with a guest family there. The countries are Brazil, China, Finland, the United States and, for the first time in 2009, Mexico.

Deutsche Post DHL covers the costs of "YEP!".