Over hill and dale through Germany – Alex Berger, Cost value stream engineer at BSH Germany at the Traunreut site, did not want to wait until his retirement to make this extraordinary journey happen. He took up BSH’s offer of a three-month sabbatical and talks about his experiences before, during and after his hiking tour with his wife Maggi.
Managing diverse teams consisting of different ages, genders, backgrounds and orientations is not an easy task. Ground values like Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (short: DEI) are therefore crucial to ensure that employees can rise to their full potential. Gabriel Schumacher, Head of Purchasing, Planning and Logistics in France, tackles this every day in his position. As one of the nominees in the BSH “Nominate Your Diversity Champion” campaign, he shares the keys to fostering DEI at workplaces further and talks about a real-life example on how to include colleagues with disabilities.
Connecting talent from across the globe, strengthening the exchange of knowledge and experiences, and supporting intercultural dialogue are part of BSH’s talent program TALENTIFY. At last year’s virtual TALENTIFY Campus, the initiative “Inspire Others” was started: Program members formed teams and developed new ideas to foster sustainability at BSH. Today, we want to introduce you to the second team and their project called “Future Concept”, dedicated to inspiring new product ideas and raising awareness on the topic of sustainability.
For more than ten years, BSH has been participating in the iPraktikum program, a practical course offered by the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Computer Science students learn and apply software engineering techniques by developing iOS mobile apps according to the problem statements of clients. We gathered the experiences of the eight international students who collaborated with BSH Werkstatt this semester – together they created a cooking application called “Culinerics”.
Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR) now zoom around the Rzeszów factory as the latest solution in the market for system automization and the next step in making employees' work easier. Anna Jonkisz, Leader of the vehicle launch project, and Radoslaw Kitka, Head of the logistics department, run us through how this works.
No matter if you think of dishes like butter chicken, chana masala or fish curry, Indian cuisine comes with colorful spices and mouthwatering aromas. While recipes and cooking traditions vary greatly across India, most of the dishes have one thing in common: They are often prepared on gas cooktops. Our Indian colleagues came up with some innovative features for their new tabletop cooker solution, addressing two unmet consumer needs and thus entering the local mass-market segment. Click here to learn more about the local innovation!
Finding common ground and a mutual understanding in a multicultural and diverse team comes with its own challenges and struggles. For our BSH campaign “Nominate Your Diversity Champion”, we highlight those who actively try to overcome boundaries and foster Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the workplace. This particular nomination included not only one role model and colleague, but a whole team. The Global Product Development Laundry Care Technology-Team consists of sixteen employees working at the BSH factory in Nanjing, China: They are between twenty-one to forty-nine years old, with five different nationalities and practice five different religions. Today some of them share their thoughts on different working dynamics, varied cultural norms and how they overcome challenges that come with being in a diverse team.
Connecting talent from across the globe, strengthening the exchange of knowledge and experiences, and supporting intercultural dialogue are part of BSH’s global talent program Talentify. In the initiative “Inspire Others” which was started last year at the virtual Talentify Campus, program members formed teams and developed new ideas to foster Sustainability at BSH. Today we want to show you the full process of the “Inspire Others” project and introduce the first group and their idea.
Traveling the world sounds already exciting as it is. But, Luca Holzhauser, Project Lead (Product Family Refrigeration, Development) in Giengen an der Brenz, Germany, took it one step further. He took the opportunity of a sabbatical at BSH and traveled through the beautiful Middle East by bicycle. Today he wants to share his motivations for taking the sabbatical and how he experienced the process from planning the journey to coming back home.
BSH Hausgeräte GmbH, with a total turnover of some EUR 15.6 billion and 62,000 employees in 2022, is a global leader in the home appliance industry. The company’s brand portfolio includes eleven well-known appliance brands like Bosch, Siemens, Gaggenau and Neff as well as the ecosystem brand Home Connect and service brands like Kitchen Stories. BSH produces at 40 factories and is represented in some 50 countries. BSH is a Bosch Group company.
