Employee Structure

As of the annual reporting date (March 31, 2023), the voestalpine Group had a global workforce of 48,231 employees (head counts). When 1,402 apprentices and 3,253 temporary employees are included, this number rises to 51,202 full-time equivalents (FTEs).

Development of the number of employees

Personnel (excl. apprentices and temporary employees, head counts) as of the March 31 reporting date

Employee structure by employment contract

In each case as of the March 31 reporting date; excl. full-time employees

Employment by country and region

voestalpine comprises about 500 Group companies and locations in 50 countries on five continents. A total of 45.3% of the company’s employees (FTEs) are based in Austria, and 54.7% work at facilities outside of the country.

voestalpine is considered an attractive employer in the countries in which it works. This facilitates local recruiting, with the result that most employees at any given location are local residents.

Workforce by region

As of the March 31, 2023, reporting date, based on FTEs

German and English are the predominant languages in the voestalpine Group. Hence voestalpine’s most important publications such as the present Corporate Responsibility Report (CR Report), the Annual Report, and the quarterly reports are published in these two languages. The voestalpine Code of Conduct, the Corporate Responsibility Fact Sheet as well as brochures and magazines are translated into numerous other languages besides English.

Years of service and employee turnover

In the business year 2022/23, employees who had been with the Group for up to five years constituted the largest group, followed by employees who had been with voestalpine for six to fifteen years.

Years of service

As of the March 31 reporting date
All employees excluding apprentices, interns, freelancers, and master’s/doctoral degree candidates

Numerous measures ensure that both the knowledge and the experience of our employees are put to the best use possible, thus continually enhancing voestalpine’s attractiveness as an employer. This also keeps the employee turnover rate as low as possible. In the business year 2022/23, the turnover rate for employment contracts terminated by mutual agreement or by the employee was 8.4%. The collection of data regarding new hires and departures takes all employees into account (managing directors, management board members, and temporary absentees are included; but apprentices, interns, freelancers, and master’s/doctoral degree candidates are excluded). There were 18 applications on average for each job opening, thus illustrating voestalpine’s attractiveness as an employer. The following table shows the number of departures by region, further broken down by employment contract and gender.