In the course of the difficult search for personnel, companies surprise with unusual offers.
This includes the Viennese technology forge Bitpanda with generous leisure opportunities.
Unlimited, fully paid annual leave is now part of that for the 1,000 employees, management announced this week.
Michael Seiser
Business correspondent for Austria and Hungary based in Vienna.
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There are also two additional so-called rest breaks per year and the option to work up to 60 working days per year from a location of your choice.
In addition, 20 weeks of fully paid parental leave is offered.
Bitpanda currently has more than ten nodes across Europe, including a location in Vienna, as well as Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Bucharest, Dublin, Krakow, London, Madrid, Milan and Zurich.
Eric Demuth, Bitpanda CEO and co-founder, says: “We want Bitpanda to be the place that gives employees everything they need to grow professionally and personally and keep up with one of the most rapidly changing and demanding industries “.
Thriving fintech platform worth €1 billion
Users can trade Bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies and gold via the platform of the start-up Bitpanda, which is present in Germany with the app of the same name, among other things.
The fintech was founded in 2014 and is valued at more than one billion dollars.
It claims to have more than three million users.
This makes it one of the most thriving fintech platforms in Europe.
The company has set itself the goal of using the innovative power of digitized assets and technology via a decentralized database (blockchain) to break down the barriers to investing.
With this pioneering approach, Bitpanda could meet the shortage of skilled workers better than other companies in Austria.
Personnel bottlenecks have long since become a problem not only in the IT segment, but everywhere.
The report "Risk in Focus 2022", which was jointly prepared by the institutes for internal auditing from different countries, shows the dangers but also opportunities in this area.
Especially in the case of IT jobs, the gap between supply and demand is widening, but the question of personnel is now evident in almost all sectors and at all levels.
The pandemic has accelerated this problem: through remote or hybrid working, distributed teams and increased demands for digital skills, but also through lack of employee retention and the resulting attrition.