Employee benefits
Team and community
- Multicultural team
- Open feedback culture
- Regular team events
- Running groups and sports events (varies depending on the hotel; head office)
- Evening barbecues, summer and Christmas parties
- In-house intranet and staff newsletter with features and updates
Stacks of discounts with the staff ID
- Always free accommodation in any a&o hostel
- Staff ID card with plenty of discounts for leisure activities
(e.g. cultural highlights and top events; travel, musicals, cruises) - An explanation of the 2 stage staff membership system:
- Blue Is assigned to every employee regardless of their position in the company.
- Employees with blue cards receive 75% discount on the daily rate – breakfast included.
- Employees receive a personal quota of overnight stays.
- Employees receive a 50% discount on the special bar price list (not in their own establishment).
- employee ID card with many discount partners in the leisure sector (e.g. cultural and event highlights, travel, musicals, boat trips)
- Black is the 'VIP version' of the staff ID card. It is assigned after five years working for a&o and can also be awarded by management. The 'black card' is also a 'partner card' for special business associates.
- Employees with blue cards receive 90% discount on the daily rate – breakfast included.
- All catering, drinks and room extras are complimentary (not including agency services such as event or travel tickets).
- also extends to 'Family & Friends' bookings in a reasonable scope, even if the employees themselves are not included in the party. Here we offer a 20% discount on the current room prices (applies exclusively to accommodation).
- Blue Is assigned to every employee regardless of their position in the company.
Company bonus schemes
- Company pension fund (bAV) for full-time staff:
e.g.: if an employee decides to save €100 as part of the pension scheme, the amount will be deducted from the gross salary; the employee saves on taxes and national insurance contributions. a&o also subsidises the company pension fund by contributing a further 20%. . - Performance-based bonuses on all career levels, from apprentices and receptionists to sales and hotel managers.
- Subsidisation of team-building events with proactive ideas.
Exchange programmes and training
- Language courses and funding to acquire language skills in the countries relevant to a&o (especially for the multilingual reception and sales team)
- Free training measures for hotel employees (first aid courses, quality management, leadership and health & safety courses, HACCP hygiene courses)
- Participation at conferences, events, seminars and meetings (head office)
- Convenient job rotation between the locations (e.g. do you fancy Brussels instead of Warsaw?)
Infrastructure & miscellaneous
- Attractive workplaces with locations at the heart of every major city (very easy travel to work by bicycle or public transport)
- An easy-going working environment with casual dress code: jeans and T-shirt instead of shirt and tie
- Complimentary soft drinks for staff members at the hotel bar
- Water, tea coffee and fruit baskets are provided free of charge at head office in Berlin
Family-friendly policies
- Flexible work times for parents
- Home office (for suitable job profiles)
- Parent/child rooms at head office
- Family rooms can be booked for personal use