Social

Employees as a valued resource

When recruiting personnel, HBB ensures that there is no discrimination against certain groups. This begins with ensuring a balanced gender ratio. Employees who want to work with us beyond their age-related retirement age or employees with families receive suitable working models. In many areas, employee remuneration depends on personal performance and is also based on the success of the company. Fringe benefits such as subsidies for public transport, discounted membership in fitness centers, provision of company bicycles, etc. are also an important factor for us.

We ensure that the workplace meets occupational safety and health protection criteria. Especially during the pandemic, we ensured that our employees got through the pandemic well through additional measures such as the introduction of shift work, reducing personal contacts and implementing complex hygiene concepts.

To ensure our strong growth, we rely on training and further education and thus filling emerging positions from our own young talent. This also applies to management positions. Most of today's managers have followed this path and therefore have a long period of seniority.

Our shareholders attach great importance to supporting those who urgently need it. Therefore, a separate foundation was set up for this commitment, which distributes significant amounts to various charitable organizations every year. Care is taken to ensure that current topics are in the foreground, such as the current support for refugees from Ukraine. HBB also supports children who are disadvantaged by life with more than 50 sponsorships.

HBB encourages its subcontractors and tenants to comply with labor law standards (no child or forced labor, no discrimination) and to pay fair wages. As far as possible, this will also be recorded contractually between the parties.

Through citizen participation as part of the planning and development phase, we explore the wishes of the future users and incorporate good suggestions into the later implementation. Even in the operational phase, the social aspect of the property is further strengthened through regular market research and the implementation of the findings.

The implementation of feel-good areas in properties, in their outdoor areas and in their immediate surroundings is now a must-have when implementing sustainable properties. In our nursing homes, we ensure that our residents feel in good hands by forming residential groups. In the case of the mixed-use objects currently being implemented, we worked with the cities to create public spaces that are well received because of their quality and have quickly developed into meeting points and places of communication. The services that can be found in our shopping places are of a very high level and serve the needs of all age groups.