Diversity that brings people together
Whether industrial companies, event management firms, hospitals or IT service providers: the Funk client base could hardly be any more diverse. We also promote this diversity in our team. After all, our employees are the single most important factor in our company’s success. On this page, we show you the areas in which we are actively working towards achieving more diversity and how Funk Diversity & Inclusion plans to ensure that an even greater variety of voices are heard at Funk.
‘All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights’: these are the opening words of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations. Our common decency also tells us that everyone deserves a fair chance – and this is an integral part of our values. Incidentally, studies also show that diverse teams achieve better results. However, it is not enough to be in favour of diversity and equal opportunities. They also have to be actively promoted.
Here at Funk, we embrace diversity in all its dimensions. We have summarised our commitment in five areas. We are active in all these areas and are continuously expanding our sphere of activity. Funk Diversity & Inclusion is championing the issue with a set Core and Feedback Team.
Our mission
Funk fosters diversity:
- We lay the structural foundations for fostering diversity at Funk.
- We improve equality of opportunity and actively combat discrimination.
- We practise an open, respectful and participatory culture as a family-run company.
Diversity & Inclusion
Respect for employees from all departments and the fostering of communication and cooperation.
Fair opportunities and clear communication – regardless of gender and personal sexual orientation.
Successful together – thanks to regular international exchange and space for everyone’s religious beliefs and world view.
Family, health, training and bespoke support – flexible benefits for a diverse team.
Fair opportunities and clear communication – regardless of gender and personal sexual orientation.
Respect for employees from all departments and the fostering of communication and cooperation.
Successful together – thanks to regular international exchange and space for everyone’s religious beliefs and world view.
Family, health, training and bespoke support – flexible benefits for a diverse team.
A fair workplace for employees of all ages – from students doing work experience to older workers.
A fair workplace for employees of all ages – from students doing work experience to older workers.
Generations
- Opportunity to complete work experience
- Jobs for working students
- Apprenticeships/dual work–study degree courses at Funk
- Personalised training
- Mentoring programme
- Bonuses for long-serving employees, former employees at Funk parties
Cultural Diversity
- Funk is a multinational company with subsidiaries abroad and an international network.
- The workforce encompasses a wealth of nationalities, cultural backgrounds, languages, religions and world views
- International exchange forums, such as the Funk Alliance Conference
- Seminars on intercultural cooperation
- Flexitime and mobile working allows employees to fit their working hours around prayer, fasting and other religious practices
Gender Balance
- Gender-balanced workforce
- Women represented at all management levels and departments, albeit not in equal numbers. For information on the female quota within the management levels of Funk Versicherungsmakler GmbH in accordance with Section 289f of the German Commercial Code (HGB), please refer to the Group Management Report of Funk Gruppe GmbH.
- Mixed-gender management
- Fully inclusive communication
- Guidelines on gender-inclusive language in corporate communication
Flexible Needs
- Bespoke working-time and part-time models
- Days off in lieu, flexitime, mobile working
- Occupational health insurance, reintegration programme following long periods of illness
- Height-adjustable desks for everyone, as well as personal equipment if needed
- Anonymous external psychological counselling
- Personalised training programmes where necessary, professional development opportunities via the Funk Academy
- Support with getting from A to B, e.g. company car or subsidised use of public transport
Professional Diversity
- A vast range of in-house professional expertise
- Numerous projects and roles that offer the opportunity for interdisciplinary working
- Support via project and change management
- Different career paths within the company, including the opportunity to develop in other specialist departments
- Target group-specific training programmes
Further measures from Funk Diversity & Inclusion
Diversity management is an ongoing process. Therefore, Funk has established a Core Team and a Feedback Team; working within Funk Diversity & Inclusion, these teams plan, implement and monitor measures in all five areas.