Deutsche Post DHL Group with three awards in recognition of its diversity, inclusion and equal opportunity efforts

Deutsche Post DHL Group intends to step up its activities aimed at broadening equal opportunity and diversity in the workplace.

In November 2021, the company received three important awards in recognition of its Group-wide efforts in this area.

• Board Member for HR Thomas Ogilvie: “Diverse teams make better decisions, and being an equal opportunity employer is a key that motivates people to deliver outstanding service to customers.”
• LGBTQ+ employee network RainbowNet receives European Diversity Award
• “Inklusionspreis für die Wirtschaft 2021” (Inclusion Award for Business) for innovative programs and initiatives
• TOTAL E-QUALITY award for equal opportunity

(PRESS RELEASE) BONN, 13-Dec-2021 — /EuropaWire/ — Deutsche Post DHL Group (ETR: DPW), a German multinational package delivery and supply chain management company, has announced it has received three important awards (European Diversity Award in the category of Outstanding Employee Network, Inklusionspreis für die Wirtschaft 2021 and TOTAL E-QUALITY award) in November 2021 all related to its ongoing efforts in the fields of diversity, inclusion and equal opportunity.

Diversity, inclusion and equal opportunity are integral to the corporate culture and strategy of Deutsche Post DHL Group. In November 2021, the company received three important awards in recognition of its Group-wide efforts in this area. RainbowNet, the company employee network for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer employees founded in 2008, received the European Diversity Award in the category of Outstanding Employee Network. As one of the largest inclusive employers in Germany, Deutsche Post DHL Group also received the “Inklusionspreis für die Wirtschaft 2021” (Inclusion Award for Business) for its inclusive corporate strategy, barrier-free structures and innovative solutions in the training and employment of people with disabilities. For its exemplary activities aimed at equal opportunity across the multiple dimensions of diversity – including inclusion and intersectionality – Deutsche Post AG once again received the TOTAL E-QUALITY award, making the Group one of a handful of companies to have been a consecutive recipient of the distinction for more than 20 years.

from left to right standing: Hayley Mason, Susanna Nezmeskal-Berggötz, Sandra Elmir, Markus Zittlau, Christina Jarvis, Michelle Moorhead and Nicola Harrington / from left to right crouching: Rick Jackson, Sotirios Krastilis, David Pierpoint and Ralf Skoda.

Markus Zittlau, deputy spokesperson for the RainbowNet network, is particularly proud of the European Diversity Award. “Our aspiration is to be a great place to work for all,” Zittlau says. “Including our LGBTQ+ brothers, sisters and non-binary persons. It’s very rewarding to be part of and contribute to a corporate culture in which no one has to explain, justify or even hide their sexual orientation or identity.”

For Thomas Ogilvie, Board Member for Human Resources, equal opportunity is an important selling point for the Group as an employer and service provider: “Equal opportunity is the key to outstanding service and highly satisfied customers. Diverse teams make better decisions. We have some 570,000 employees from around the world all working together, which shows that the active promotion of diversity has a positive impact on company success. In fact, a robust corporate culture of inclusion and diversity is increasingly viewed as a major competitive factor in securing talent.”

Deutsche Post DHL Group intends to step up its activities aimed at broadening equal opportunity and diversity in the workplace. At the DHL Express hub in Cologne, for example, an inclusion department was established to better address the needs of employees with autism and integrate them more effectively into the teams. At the DHL Express hub in Leipzig, the company launched a special project for the hearing impaired. There, it uses pagers and blinking lights to create barrier-free working conditions that have enabled the hiring of several employees with hearing disabilities. The promotion of women is also firmly anchored into the Group’s Sustainability Roadmap. Logistics has traditionally been a male-dominated industry. Well aware of that fact, Deutsche Post DHL Group has continually increased the percentage of women in middle and upper management positions around the world since 2014, achieving a current rate of 23.2 percent¹.  Moreover, a total of 34.2 percent of all Group employees are women, and more ambitious goals are targeted. The company currently aims to increase the percentage of women in upper and middle management to at least 30 percent by 2025. To achieve this goal, the Group-wide initiative “Shift up a Gear” was introduced – a comprehensive program specifically designed to train and promote the next generation of female leaders for positions in senior management.

_{¹ As of the end of December 2020}

Media contact:

Hannah Braselmann
Spokesperson for the topics Corporate Responsibility, Refugee Initiative, Personnel
Deutsche Post DHL Group
Charles-de-Gaulle-Str. 20
53113 Bonn
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)228 182 9944
Twitter: @dpdhlBraselmann

SOURCE: Deutsche Post AG