At Royal Ahrend, we believe that there is a place for everyone and that diversity should be facilitated. Over the past decades, we have seen work environments change and we have inspired many customers to look at them differently through new products, research and interior design. The standardised workplace simply does not exist. An ideal work environment is inspiring, flexible and sustainable. We therefore focus on creating a healthy, safe and inspiring workplace for our own workforce and we offer workplace solutions to our customers that have a positive impact on people.

During the process of integrating several companies into one Royal Ahrend, we have been committed to focusing on employee experience. Three topics are found to be of importance to our colleagues: leadership, communication and collaboration. Within our sustainability strategy we have defined one social topic related to our own workforce and customers.

• Social fairness in our own operations to ensure healthy and safe working practices, happy employees and a healthy work-life balance. As a social entrepreneur, we create a diverse workforce with a focus on gender balance and creating opportunities for differently abled colleagues.
• Create office designs that provide a healthy and sustainable workspace for customers and end-users by designing ergonomic and adaptable workstations that support a healthy working posture in hybrid working environments. By ensuring materials are tested on indoor air quality and space-in-space solutions with high levels of ventilation, sound absorption and lighting. With our innovations we aim to improve user health and well-being.

Our social topics will be explained in the following chapters, separated in one section about our workforce and one section describing efforts for our customers.