Benefits and Perks at Bertelsmann
Comprehensive Health, Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage
Bertelsmann believes the good health and happiness of our employees and their families is extremely important. To that end, we offer all regular employees several comprehensive medical plan options for health, dental and vision, including PPO or HMO membership through leading insurance carriers. Bertelsmann currently pays the major portion of the comprehensive medical plan premium, while employees contribute a small part of the total cost of their health care coverage. Some companies at Bertelsmann also offer (EAP) employee assistance program hotlines, health fairs, health management web sites & programs with tips on staying healthy, as well as physical fitness reimbursement programs.
Perks & The Fun Stuff
Many Bertelsmann companies offer localized benefits and perks that relate to the businesses they operate in. For example, an employee at Random House might get free or discounted books, or an employee at SONY BMG might get free cd’s or discounted concert tickets, or employees at one of our music clubs might get a fantastic membership at a discounted price. Bertelsmann companies all work together with their local community businesses to arrange local discounts on everything from movie tickets, restaurants, theatres, clothing, and other cool stuff.
Vacation
Time off for rest and relaxation is important to everyone. With this in mind, Bertelsmann offers an attractive vacation schedule to all its employees worldwide. Vacation days and rules will vary by state and country.
Employee & Dependent Life Insurance Coverage
Bertelsmann provides basic life coverage at no cost to staff members. The benefit level for life is two times base annual earnings. In some countries and companies, Bertelsmann also provides additional life coverage options to employees for a nominal cost.
Health, Fitness & Sports
Many Bertelsmann companies all over the world have various physical fitness programs such as basketball, soccer, yoga, baseball, weight watchers, and many other programs. Some of our facilities even have discount gym or health club memberships, while other locations may have a nearby or in-house company-sponsored gym or health club that employees can use for a nominal fee. In some of our European locations we have lunch-time workouts designed to maximize work-life balance and promote a healthy life style for those who are busy. In some of our US locations we may offer lunch time Yoga or after work sports team. Either way, there are lots of opportunities to stay healthy and fit at Bertelsmann.
Holidays, Sick Leave, and Other Time Off
Bertelsmann provides paid holidays each calendar year to all employees. Each company’s policy will vary. Additionally employees might also get sick leave, personal days, and eligible employees in certain companies may even get sabatticals.
Work Environment
Bertelsmann is proud to be a first choice provider of supply chain services, yet our identity goes far beyond our services and achievements. In all our efforts, we maintain a deep respect for individual talent and a keen regard for the limitless potential of a highly motivated team. This approach keeps expectations at Bertelsmann high, as they must be. Our continued growth and success demand nothing less than the best from each of us.
This is our starting point. From here we have developed a work environment that is goal-focused, team-oriented and entrepreneurial. We believe that Bertelsmann' successes — past and future — are a direct result of our adherence to these values.
We strive every day to create a challenging and rewarding environment. Despite a vigorous growth pace, Bertelsmann actively seeks to provide a small-company atmosphere, one that encourages people to both work hard and have fun.
There are many career paths and opportunities at Bertelsmann. Our employees play an important role in the decisions that affect their professional development. To provide a supporting platform, Bertelsmann offers an abundance of skill-building and training programs, and a staff of human resources professionals to offer guidance.
Respect, talent, cooperation and an environment inspiring the best work possible — these are all part of the Bertelsmann culture.
Learning and Development
Many Bertelsmann companies offer their employees some sort of live or classroom training sessions, web-based programs and computer-based training in technical and professional areas such as supervisory skills, software and computer skills, project management, time management, leadership and hundreds of other courses. Some Bertelsmann companies also offer a tuition reimbursement program for undergraduate and graduate classes.
The Bertelsmann University and learning portal provides hundreds of educational opportunities and resources.
Networking and Interest Clubs
Bertelsmann hosts many events on a city, state, country, and international level. Some events are locally sponsored, while others are international across many companies. These events are designed to inform, educate, network, and create communities. Additionally, depending on the industry, there might be other clubs such as the “book club” or the “music club” and many others across the company that encourage people with similar interests and passions in their businesses to share their opinions and make the products better.
