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29.09.2026 Gabriele Strasser 7762

Growing sustainably together: the pme sustainability compass

How sustainable are the childcare centers and branches of pme Familienservice? The pme sustainability compass provides orientation and inspiration for sustainable action in everyday life.

 

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Growing sustainably together: the pme sustainability compass

In a world in which sustainability is not just an option, but a necessity, we at pme Familienservice want to make our contribution. With the Sustainability Compass, we want to show transparently where we stand today and which path we are taking together towards a more sustainable future. Based on a comprehensive survey at all our locations and childcare centers , we shed light on five key areas of action: 

  • Climate change
  • Environmental pollution
  • Water and marine resources
  • Biodiversity and ecosystems 
  •  Resource utilization and circular economy.

Our vision is not only to drive forward sustainable measures internally, but also to act as a role model for our partners, customers and society. The compass is intended to provide orientation, derive concrete measures and be an inspiration for sustainable action in everyday life.

zero pme and Generation Ü: From retirement to working life

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Leadership & HR
14.03.2024 Christin Müller 15305

pme and Generation Ü: From retirement to working life

By 2030, over eight million people will be of working age. Only around 5.5 million workers will join the labor market. Many companies are already feeling the effects of this huge skills gap. In order to anticipate this development at an early stage, the pme Familienservice Group is deliberately focusing on new ways of recruiting through a partnership with the "Generation Ü" job agency.

For some time now, pme Familienservice has been committed to keeping team members in employment - at their own request - after they retire. At the beginning of March, pme Familienservice launched a partnership with the job placement agency "Generation Ü", which helps to recruit people with extensive work experience. In future, the focus will be on more than 90 childcare and educational institutions across Germany.

Silver worker: From retirement to working life

At the 30 pme locations throughout Germany, Generation Ü will search for and place suitable "Üs" as a job placement service for retirement. Üs are women and men, generally between their late 50s and early 70s, who want to remain active towards the end of their working life or in retirement.

"Through the partnership with Generation Ü, pme Familienservice wants to focus even more strongly than before on the experience and motivation of older generations. This is an important component of our diversity strategy and should also help to counter the increasing shortage of skilled workers," says Alexa Ahmad, CEO of the pme Familienservice Group.

Who is Generation Ü?

Ü founder and former State Secretary Christian Ege says: "Generation Ü brings companies and Üs into contact and organizes the cooperation, hand-mediated and with an internal IT platform in which over 1200 Üs are currently registered".

Generation Ü offers SMEs and public employers in particular many advantages and credibility in the search, placement and recruitment of skilled workers over 55. Whether in the office, childcare, classroom, accounting, as a driver, in sales, production, technology or a doctor's surgery: the Üs fulfill many tasks and important projects reliably, with knowledge, drive and many years of experience in a wide variety of professions and areas. Just in a slightly different way than in conventional working life.