And it works even in bad weather

Those were two financially turbulent years. With the global financial crisis, a stormy bad weather front hit us: from 28.8 million euros turnover in 2008, it went down to 20 million euros in 2009. In the middle of this financial bad weather, we introduced a new salary model including employee profit sharing in 2009. Payout per head, up to 25 % of the previous year's profit before tax (EBT). We thought: If such a model only works in good weather, we might as well leave it alone. The model was a logical consequence of our concept of cooperation as a performance community. And just how strong this community idea is became apparent when we were left out in the cold due to the decline in turnover: In February 2009, we asked the team for a voluntary salary retention. The response to this request was overwhelming. And it carried us through the crisis without losing a single employee; we were even able to welcome two new colleagues (2008: 106 employees, 2009: 108 employees). Soon the salary retention was settled, and for the first time for 2009 there was the profit sharing on top of the salary. allsafe is all-weather.