Employment at Ocab

All employees have the right to secure employment, regardless of the form of employment. Life insurance, health insurance, pension insurance and accident insurance are included for all Ocab employees. There may be minor differences depending on the country and the employment contract.

We adhere to collective agreements and work with trade unions and social partners to ensure job security. Ocab has collective agreements in Sweden and Denmark and equivalent employment contracts in Norway.

Specific roles and our Norwegian operations, where conditions are negotiated individually, are excluded from collective agreements but generally have the same scope as for other employees.

Targets

Employee Engagement

Through regular anonymous employee surveys, we collect feedback from employees on how well we are performing as an organisation. We use the survey results to identify our strengths and weaknesses, and to draw up action plans together in order to improve at every level.

The measure of how willing employees are to recommend their workplace to others, eNPS, rose from 10.5 to 15.5. This is an extremely important step in the right direction to ensure that employees are happy and want to remain with us.

The countries have different results: Norway 39 (39), Sweden 3 (1) and Denmark 37 (n/a). At the same time, employee engagement increased by 1%, which is positive in the effort to return to the same level as 2021. 

Annual performance reviews

Employees have at least one performance review per year, at which the employee and their manager review performance, well-being and development opportunities.

During our performance reviews, there is time to discuss employees’ perceptions of safety in the workplace, including topics such as the working environment, discrimination, gender equality and inclusion. In this way, we gather insights from our employees to draw up activity plans locally to increase safety and security and reduce sickness absence.

Skill development

At Ocab, we are committed to providing our employees with ongoing training and skills development. We strive to be the best at what we do and to be an attractive employer. In an era of rapid change, new skills are required.

As an employer, we have a responsibility to help our staff develop in order to meet the expectations and requirements of our customers. Expertise is an important factor in retaining employees and contributing to their well-being.

Our managers are offered leadership training to strengthen and improve their leadership skills, thus enhancing the conditions that allow our employees to thrive at work. The leadership programme includes information about the organisational and social work environment.

Further training can provide enhanced authority and specialist knowledge that permit employees to perform more advanced and classified tasks. Training to meet statutory requirements and obtain qualifications is assigned based on position and role and is monitored in our employee academy.

Ocab provides all employees with occupational health and safety training. New training programmes are continually developed as needs are identified and improvements are suggested.

The number of completed leadership training programmes is 70% (68%), which is an increase compared to 2022, but efforts are ongoing to reach the target and to endeavour to have the best leaders.

Further development and courses

In our employee academy, we provide skills and qualifications guides, and suggestions for further development and courses. All employees who end their employment are offered conversion or transition support through collective agreements.

Adapted programmes at the upper-secondary and vocational-school level have long been absent from our industry. It has been our company’s responsibility to train new employees and make sure that relevant training programmes are available.

In cooperation with Skellefteå Municipality, in 2023 we developed a vocational programme for restoration technicians and we offer internships across the country. We have also been involved in initiating Sweden's first supplementary training programme for moisture technicians, which is carried out through higher vocational education.

A new system for the Ocab Academy to measure and monitor training objectives on an annual basis was implemented in 2023. Training and skills development needs are monitored in connection with performance reviews.

All employees are offered training and skills development, but we do not gather data on the number of training hours.

Monitoring

All results are summarised and analysed in relation to overarching goals and for the Board and management teams. We continuously evaluate our work and measure the impact of our activities. By designing clearer, simpler targets that are continuously monitored, we have increased engagement in our operational activities, resulting in improvements in each target and index as well as new action plans.

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