Corporate Social Responsibilty | VS

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Corporate Social Responsibilty | VS

VS employees do gymnastics during their break with guidance from an AOK employee.

Our Focus on People

VS sees its employees as a central and reliable factor in the company’s success.

Firefighters in front of a fire engine of the VS works fire brigade

Our Focus on People

VS sees its employees as a central and reliable factor in the company’s success.

VS employees do gymnastics during their break with guidance from an AOK employee.

Our Focus on People

VS sees its employees as a central and reliable factor in the company’s success.

Firefighters in front of a fire engine of the VS works fire brigade

Our Focus on People

VS sees its employees as a central and reliable factor in the company’s success.

Social responsibility begins within our own company - and must not stop at its borders. As part of society, we also want to contribute beyond our direct sphere of activity and provide impetus for a community worth living in.
 
Three children stand on the podium at the award ceremony of the International VS Möbel Cup, an annual fencing competition

Fostering Sport

We get involved by fostering the next generation of athletes. Every year, we sponsor the International VS Möbel Cup, a schoolchildren’s and youth ranking fencing competition in Tauberbischofsheim. In addition, we award grants to regional sports clubs to support their youth work.
We also help employees who want to take part in competitions in company teams.

 
Three men play instruments and make music together.

Fostering Culture

Our school museum in Tauberbischofsheim supplements the regional museum landscape with an original location for exhibitions and education. Visitors experience a unique journey through the history of national and international school furnishing and architecture from the start of the 20th century to today. Entry to the museum is free.
In addition, we support regional cultural events, such as the Tauberbischofsheim Castle Concerts, and we are active members of the Tauberbischofsheim Citizens Foundation.

Our School Museum

 
A young tradeswoman works wood with a plane.

Training

Fostering our next generation and giving them the best possible work opportunities goes without saying for us.
The quality in our industrial, technical and commercial vocational training and the dual courses of study is professional, quality-oriented and at the highest level. This is confirmed by the Dualis seal from the Heilbronn-Franken Chamber of Industry and Commerce.
We train according to needs and want to earn the loyalty of tomorrow’s employees with attractive work today. 

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Children perform a play together at the VS holiday care programme Holzwürmer

Work-Life Balance

Fostering a work-life balance is very important to us.
Since 2012, we have organised three-week, educational all-day care in the summer holidays on the company premises for our employees’ children, only interrupted by the coronavirus years.
We offer various working time models to every employee. Working from home (office workers) and various part-time patterns are available.

 
Pupils at a school in Armenia sit on donated VS furniture.

Social 

Wir lassen regelmäßig regionalen karitativen und sozialen Initiativen Zuwendungen zukommen und unterstützen internationale Hilfsprojekte durch die Spende von Schulmöbeln und Logistikleistungen. Zudem sind wir seit vielen Jahren Mitglied im Verein Lebenshilfe e.V. (Goldenes Ehrenzeichen). 

 
Employees do gymnastics during their work break

Health Promotion

The health and well-being of our employees are very important to us.
All employees are entitled to a preventive check-up every year. There are preventive exercise units during working hours for production staff. The offer to lease a job bike is available to all. 
When creating jobs, we take account of ergonomic aspects and considerations relevant to health.
We offer our employees and external visitors wholesome breakfast and lunch catering in our company restaurant. The company restaurant uses organic fruit and vegetables from our own market garden.

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Co-determination

Allowing employees to play a part in shaping the company’s business policy via the Works Council is part of VS’s Company Policy.
Skills and responsibility are balanced, and there is entrepreneurial thinking at every level of the hierarchy in our company.

 
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Anti-discrimination, inclusion and integration

We are committed to a corporate culture of diversity. All employees should be able to contribute as they are – without having to pretend to be something they are not or follow a certain norm. 

We currently employ over 5% refugees. For many years, the proportion of employees with disabilities in the total workforce at VS has been well above the legally required 5% and above the national German average of 4.1% for employers in the private sector. You can find the

We take care to design working conditions in such a way that all employees can contribute at work according to their abilities and participate in the VS community.

Gifts and bouquets of flowers are presented at the 125th anniversary celebration of VS

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With over 1,700 employees worldwide, we are one of the largest employers in the Main-Tauber district. We regularly seek new colleagues for production and administration, primarily at our Tauberbischofsheim location.

The long average tenure of 17 years highlights the strong commitment of our employees to the company VS.

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Roots and values

We are a traditional family business in its fourth generation that has been supporting the development of modern educational centres for over 125 years. With deep-rooted expertise and many years of experience, we design spaces that promote learning and working cultures and create a sense of well-being. 

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The marquee at VS's 125th anniversary celebrations was full to bursting.

Our anniversary celebration

We celebrated our 125th birthday in September 2023 with great joy: at a company party for all employees and their partners and at an open day to which all interested parties were invited. 

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