Social responsibility.
Create prospects.
”It has always been a major concern to our family to give people with health restrictions or special needs a chance to find their way back into everyday working life.”
– Thomas von Rickenbach
The aim of NETZWERK ARBEIT KANTON SCHWYZ is to reintegrate people with health restrictions into working life. Together with the Schwyz IV office, the organisation supports interested companies in reintegrating and dealing with these employees in a reintegration programme. We at vonrickenbach.swiss are one of many companies participating in this programme. We want to take on SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY and thus offer new perspectives to those affected.
WHAT DOES SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY MEAN?
There is no universal answer to the question of what CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) actually means. From an employer’s perspective, corporate social responsibility means that companies engage positively with their business environment and respond and act accordingly. In this context, all actions are voluntary, i.e., initiated by the companies themselves – and not by the government. They also go well beyond the legal minimum imposed on companies and can be applied to a wide range of fields of activities in the economic or social spheres, as well as in the environmental field.
WE PROVIDE PERSPECTIVES
vonrickenbach.swiss ag participates in the integration programme of Netzwerk Arbeit Schwyz out of conviction. As a company, we want to assume SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, create perspectives for less privileged people and give something back to society. It has always been our great concern to give people with health restrictions or special needs a chance to find their way back into everyday working life. We want to provide a place where they can do what they are capable of in a sheltered environment.
However, we do not follow a specific process for integration. We deploy these employees where there is a need and for work that they can do well and at their own pace. The range of work is diverse, be it sanding, oiling, sorting out wood, loading CNC machines and many other tasks.
Captions for pictures below:
- Assembly work, preparation for CNC cutting
- Sorting wood for production
- Grinding and mostly repetitive work in production
Copyright © Meier & Kamer Fotografie, Goldau.
BEING PART OF A WHOLE
STRONG TOGETHER!
Depending on the size of the company and the sectors, such opportunities are available in different ways. People with special needs will always have an impact on the existing staff and on the operational process itself. It requires tolerance, acceptance and understanding from everyone. It also takes time to get the processes right, but then these employees can be a great enrichment and support for our specialists by relieving them of work that takes a lot of time, especially repetitive time-consuming work. The persons concerned experience appreciation by carrying out the work, which helps them to find their way back into a regular everyday life and to become part of a whole.
A CHANCE FOR CHANGE
Personally, the integration programme of NETZWERK ARBEIT is of great importance to me. It enables affected people to enter or return to the labour market. In my opinion, it is the responsibility of us entrepreneurs and of our society in general to integrate them and give them a CHANCE for a change, as they have often got into this situation through no fault of their own.
Thomas von Rickenbach
Owner / CEO vonrickenbach.swiss ag
