Fraunhofer Institute for Technological Trend Analysis INTBenefits at Fraunhofer INT
Our benefits at Fraunhofer INT include a wide range of amenities to support your professional and personal development:
Fraunhofer INT as employer
We have an open culture in which flat hierarchies and friendly colleagues strengthen cooperation and team spirit.
We offer flexible working hours, mobile working and mental health prevention services to promote the health and well-being of our employees.
We focus on a good work-life balance and offer 30 days of vacation, a wide range of (online) childcare options as well as coaching and consulting services, supported by pme Familienservice.
As part of our range of benefits, we provide a job ticket that enables our employees to commute conveniently and cost-effectively and to travel flexibly both professionally and privately.
Benefit from generous employee discounts that give you attractive advantages when purchasing products and services.
We regularly organize voluntary employee events, including carnival, summer and Christmas parties, as well as joint sporting events such as the company run, to promote team spirit and strengthen social interaction within the institute.
Variable Compensation
Fraunhofer has a good reputation, but the same cannot always be said of the collective wage agreement for public service employees (TVöD). Salaries are often lower than in industry, at least as far as basic pay is concerned. However, Fraunhofer additionally offers a variable compensation plan to help make its salaries more attractive.
As well as being paid the salary fixed by the collective wage agreement, employees additionally receive a variable, performance-related payment. The amount of this payment depends partly on the individual employee’s performance and partly on the operating results of the Fraunhofer Institute they work for. It is calculated on the basis of the annual employee performance review and the Institute’s annual performance rating.
In this respect, Fraunhofer’s compensation system shares much in common with that of an industrial company – even if we are unable to attain the summits of the very top industrial salaries.