Personnel development

Training and professional development

As an intra-Group partner for learning, development and change processes, DB Training conducts training and professional development with about 25,000 events for about 250,000 participants per year. More than 3,000 training sessions are offered, addressing all employee groups and functions within DB Group.

DB Academy is responsible for the qualification of the about 7,900 executives and potential executives of DB Group. The portfolio offers executives training according to their individual career and development stages that enable them to move between strategic areas of action at DB Group. We are constantly evolving our service offering. We are in­­creas­­ingly using elements from digital learning, agile methods and new learning formats and communication.

In the year under review, regional qualification centers were set up as pilot projects for the training and continuing education of our em­­ployees abroad. Furthermore, in Singapore the DB Schenker Training Center was further expanded and a program for fixed-term international project and visitation experience for specialists and potential executives was developed.

¹⁾ Germany, including trainees and dual degree students, excluding executives

Germany (companies with about 79% of domestic employees).
Includes only training and development days in customer-oriented job families for permanent employees, excluding vocational trainees and dual-degree students.

The training and continuing education costs per employee increased as did the training days in comparison with the previous year.

Securing new talent

Germany (companies with about 98% of domestic employees).
Hired after completion of training or dual degree studies.

Young people can complete training in over 50 apprenticeships in DB Group. Vocational training and dual degree studies program are the foundation of DB Group’s efforts to secure the recruitment of skilled em­­ployees. This is supplemented by the long-term job preparation program “Chance plus” for young people who need support in accessing the labor market. In the year under review, there was particular focus on making qualified jobs and the development of digital learning formats fit for the future. We have also created and expanded services for supervising, supporting and engaging junior staff in different ways.

Diversity

In Germany, about 205,000 employees (natural persons) from over 100 nations work for DB Group and about 48,000 of them are women. The share of employees in Germany of foreign birth or citizenship increased to 11.6% (previous year: 10.5%).

The share of employees over the age of 50 continues to be high.

The share of women in management positions has increased steadily in recent years.

The employment rate of severely disabled employees in Germany is about 6%. In terms of the Group companies, about half are above the statutory quota of 5%, even in numerous areas that might not seem particularly suitable for employees with severe disabilities at first glance.