Social responsibility in a company primarily means responsibility for employees. They are our most important resource and crucial to the company's success. Comprehensive programs on personnel development and equal opportunities, profit-sharing and pensions encourage qualified, contented employees. For them, we create a pleasant working climate in which each individual can develop fully. WACKER employees can progress and obtain qualifications in individual training and advancement programs that are tailored to their personal strengths. WACKER is also deeply committed to integrating people with handicaps. This necessitates individual job counseling, a responsibility assumed by our disability delegates. Such is WACKER's commitment here that it even managed to exceed the legally mandated employment rate for disabled people in 2005.

At WACKER, creating the ideal conditions for a successful career particularly includes finding ways for staff to combine a family and a job. To this end, we create individual working-hours models that take account of the various life stages of men and women. Workshops for mothers and fathers provide important information about WACKER's family policies and their implementation within the framework of the Burghausen Company Agreement on "Women, Promoting the Family and Career." This sgreement also makes provision for individual employment variants including part-time work, holiday cover or advanced training measures.