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2022 Corporate Responsibility Report

Socially responsible staff restructuring

With a view to remaining strong and competitive in our dynamic and global market environment, in the long term, we support and assist our employees in growing with the evolving digitalized working world.

These inevitable changes are also accompanied by complex personnel restructuring. We are creating new jobs in growth areas and finding qualified personnel to fill these positions. In other areas, we are restructuring, and reducing our workforce in the process. We make sure that all staff restructuring measures are implemented in a socially responsible way for our employees.

HR service provider Vivento has provided us with support and placement services for employees in Germany since 2013. In close collaboration with the new “next.JOB” unit founded at the start of 2022, 69 employees (civil servants and non-civil servants) at Deutsche Telekom in Germany decided to transfer to positions with federal, state, or local authorities. “next.JOB” provides new opportunities in the public sector for interested employees from across the entire Group. In 2022, a large number of these employees went to the armed forces (Bundeswehr), the Federal Employment Agency, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund, and other federal authorities. Employees were also assisted in finding positions in public administration. Since Vivento’s founding, it has helped more than 53 100 employees (full-time equivalents – FTEs img; as of December 31, 2021) find viable new options.

For some years now, various segments, including Group Headquarters and Telekom Deutschland, have offered assistance to surplus personnel, including individual counseling for professional reorientation. Employees in the change process are given prompt and comprehensive support, with the goal of finding permanent new employment for them.