Imagine a company that supports you when it comes to balancing your professional and private priorities: Offering the flexibility to pick up your child from kindergarten or school as promised. To take off early once a week - in favor of sports, for instance. To save up some time for that very special journey. Or to work from home when this allows you to get your job done just as well – or even better.

Bayer wants to be such a company – and it is up to all of us to make it happen. At Bayer, we are increasing our flexibility regarding 'where' we work and 'when', and we are opening up options for devoting more time to our youngsters or elderly relatives.

Measures offered to Bayer employees at different sites include:

Yes, there are limitations, for example when increased flexibility would seriously impact workflows. But proper planning will help prevent potential conflicts. It is therefore highly recommended to explore possibilities with your supervisor at an early point. He or she has to ensure that your function’s responsibilities and requirements can be met in your absence. He or she will also confirm that flexible working options are actively supported at Bayer, reflecting the flexibility element expressed in our LIFE values.

Information related to your work time

At Bayer, we offer a very wide range of occupations – and at the same time of work systems and models. In most Bayer companies, flexible working hours apply. As an employee, this offers you the possibility, in consultation with your operational area or your department, to organize your daily work time flexibly.

In addition, there are also flexible forms that allow you to work outside your usual working environment.

A healthy lifestyle: Diverse opportunities to shape a healthy lifestyle

Your health matters to us, so we’ve put a framework in place that allows each and every one of us to develop to his or her full potential – and stay healthy in the process. At the same time, we know that it isn’t always easy to find the right balance between the challenges of work and your personal needs. 
This is particularly true when it comes to a healthy lifestyle.
For this reason, we’ve planned our offerings so that they can be integrated into your everyday working life.

Whether it’s a medical checkup, healthy nutrition or participating in one of our sports clubs: we want you to be able to be take an active part in your own health, even at work.

Childcare

Bayer offers all of its employees a free consultation service to support them in all questions relating to childcare. Among the services provided are researching suitable childcare institutions (public, private and voluntary); sourcing childcare in private households (daycare professionals, au pairs, babysitters, places in childcare centers, schools, homework assistance and private tutoring).

This service is free for Bayer employees; all you pay is the cost of the childcare itself. 
Our partner in this is pme Familienservice GmbH, which has offices throughout Germany and therefore possesses the all-important local knowledge. You can discuss your ideas and wants – also in English – both in a personal consultation and by telephone.

Providing places in daycare is an important and much-used element of our family-oriented offerings. At our sites in

• Leverkusen
• Monheim
• Dormagen
• Wuppertal (Aprath)
• Bergkamen
• Frankfurt
• Berlin

around 450 places for children from one to six years of age are currently available.

On the right side of this page you can find the admission guideline (only available in German) and the document for the admission of the day nursery in Berlin.

Freedom to care for those close to you

Many employees will one day have to face the question of how they balance their profession with the need to care for a close relative. This responsibility is fully respected by Bayer. In this difficult situation, all employees should be supported to the best of one’s abilities.

To this end, Bayer has established a framework, specified in the collective agreement on family and profession, to give you the space and freedom you need and that aims to offer relief in this situation.

Further Bayer bears the cost for the counseling for all questions relating to looking after someone in need of care. This counseling is provided by the famPlus GmbHwho is available to you as a professional, external counseling center.

Further Reading

Would you like to know more about the opportunities Bayer offers to support you balancing your professional and private priorities? Starting from your first day at Bayer you can access our Intranet portal BayerNet. On this portal you will find detailed information on the presented topics in the section “People” under “My Life”.