09 Employee wellbeing

Gasunie is committed to creating a work environment geared towards increasing focus, performance, a sense of purpose and job satisfaction. We recognise the importance of being a good employer and make every effort to make Gasunie an attractive place to work.

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Employees appear to be satisfied with Gasunie as an employer, feel valued, find Gasunie’s vision for the future inspiring, and support Gasunie’s objectives. An eNPS score of 30 also indicates that Gasunie employees would generally recommend Gasunie to others as a company to work for (benchmark: 25). Furthermore, Gasunie scores high in the areas of perceived safety and diversity, inclusion and equality. Employees feel safe, don’t hesitate to speak up when they encounter an unsafe situation, dare to be themselves, and see that people are treated equally and with respect.

The extent to which managers discuss employee development on a regular basis could use some attention, though most respondents state that they are actively working on their own development. What also emerged is that we could do more to see that better use is made of employee ideas and suggestions to improve as a company. Both these topics have been included in the management agendas for 2024.

Engineering firms and stakeholder management companies we work with are also experiencing staff shortages, which is one of the reasons we concluded a framework contract with a number of companies in these sectors in January 2024. For Gasunie, this involves an investment of € 280 million over a period of ten years.

With the increased workload at Gasunie as a result of the extra efforts in the area of transmission security and the energy transition, preventing sickness absence has received a great deal of attention.

From 2024, the Occupational Health & Safety Service will send an employee a questionnaire on their fourth day of sick leave, which the service can then use to estimate whether this will be a case of short-term or long-term sickness absence. In the event of the latter, the employee is, where necessary, invited to visit the occupational physician earlier than the standard fourth week of sick leave. We hope that this way the employee will have faster access to health professionals and a shorter recovery time.

Gasunie carried out a periodic job-specific occupational health check (‘PMO/PAGO’) in 2023 and will continue with this in 2024. The response rate among employees has been 73% so far. Participants complete a questionnaire and undergo biometric health screening. They then talk to a vitality coach who discusses the answers and the screening results with them. We feel that this will make employees more aware of the importance of a healthy (or healthier) lifestyle and that they will actually put the lifestyle advice they receive into practice. From the results of this health survey, Gasunie gains (at department level) a better understanding of matters such as employee health & fitness, lifestyle and capacity for work, as well as social safety, inappropriate behaviour, the impact of work pressure and work stress, and informal caregiving.

The Master Your Energy course teaches our people how to make smarter use of their energy, providing insight into the things that cost energy and how they can recharge their energy. Employees also learn how to gain more control over their energy and how to organise their day more effectively so that they can work with more focus and still have enough time and energy to do the things that are important to them outside of work. These sessions are very popular and so will also be offered per department/team in 2024. The course will also be part of the onboarding programme for new employees.

In 2023, we launched a project aimed at improving and maintaining the health and long-term employability of shift employees by reducing the burden of shift work. We are looking at aspects like recruitment & selection, orientation/onboarding, training & development, shift/team composition, career guidance, and employees leaving the company.

In Germany, Gasunie employees can submit reports to seven confidential counsellors, an equal opportunities officer, the Betriebsrat (works council) or the HR department. Gasunie Deutschland did not receive any reports of inappropriate behaviour or integrity issues in 2023.

In 2023, we found no incidents of bribery or corruption within Gasunie.