The city of Wiesbaden as an attractive employer

We want to secure and further develop the offers for health promotion and a good work-life balance in the future. Prevention, exercise, advice, safe and ergonomic workplace design and flexible working models help employees stay healthy, feel good and develop their potential. In this way, we strengthen satisfaction, motivation and performance – and make the city of Wiesbaden a modern, attractive employer.

We GRÜNE will continue to offer the RMV job ticket free of charge and introduce a service bike lease to strengthen environmentally friendly mobility. At the same time, we want to design parking spaces according to demand, create areas for safe and covered bicycle parking and expand the charging infrastructure for e-vehicles. In this way, we promote sustainable mobility, protect the environment and support the health, satisfaction and flexibility of our employees.

As part of New Work, the city of Wiesbaden is designing modern and flexible ways of working. In addition, a service agreement on new forms of work and desk sharing is being developed. It creates the organizational framework for mobile work, desk sharing and digital collaboration to be introduced throughout the city in the future. Step by step, this creates an administration that is up-to-date, citizen-oriented and attractive as an employer.

We are creating more opportunities for home office and mobile work in Wiesbaden's city administration – explicitly also for apprentices. The prerequisite for this is the introduction of the e-file and consistent digital work processes – of course in close coordination with the overall staff council. Such modern working models improve the work-life balance, increase employee satisfaction and strengthen the city as an attractive employer. This creates a future-oriented administration that offers young talent perspectives and meets the requirements of a modern world of work.

Digital transformation requires new skills: networked work, agile methods and willingness to change. It is all the more important that there are tailor-made training offers, mentoring programs and continuous further training for managers and employees of all urban work areas. Promotion of young talent, clear career paths and equal opportunities ensure long-term development prospects. There is also a need for a culture that promotes innovation, motivates employees and future-proofs the city of Wiesbaden – flexible, digitally competent and inclusive for all employees.

We also want to improve housing supply for urban workers. We also want to test company apartments, as we have already built them on the grounds of Helios Dr. Horst Schmidt Kliniken (HSK) by GWW, for other employee groups, such as the bus drivers of ESWE Verkehr. We want to expand the model project Apprentice Housing and also benefit urban apprentices.

The city of Wiesbaden consistently awards all external orders only to companies bound by tariffs. This ensures fair working conditions, decent pay and social standards, including for employees who do not work directly with the city. This strengthens the attractiveness of our city administration as a model for responsible action and underlines our claim to justice and appreciation in all areas.

Wiesbaden as a diverse city benefits from this, even if the administrative staff is diverse and has intercultural competences. We want to promote this and also explicitly point out in job advertisements that applications from people with migration history are explicitly desired.

We take inclusion seriously: People with disabilities should be able to contribute their full potential as employees and experts. We see the severely disabled rate not only as a formal requirement, but as an opportunity to attract committed specialists. We would like to counter reservations with sensitization, good handling and technical aids. Support offers from the Integration Office must be used consistently in order to make workplaces barrier-free and to take individual needs into account. All of this contributes to an inclusive work culture in which all employees are valued and have equal opportunities for development and participation.

The municipal administration was again awarded the ‘family-friendly employer’ seal of approval by the State of Hesse in 2025. This acknowledges that the city offers its employees flexible working hours, home office opportunities, part-time and Sabbath models as well as counselling services on family and care. The offer is supplemented by holiday care for children. These measures enable employees to reconcile work and private life, promote employee satisfaction and retention and underline Wiesbaden as a modern, responsible employer.

The city of Wiesbaden promotes the health of its employees and a balanced work-life balance and enables, among other things, the cost-effective use of partner gyms and the reduced or free use of Wiesbaden's outdoor and indoor pools. In doing so, we are sending a clear signal for prevention, well-being and sustainable working conditions – important building blocks to ensure employee satisfaction and performance.

The city of Wiesbaden promotes sustainable mobility through a free RMV job ticket for all employees, which covers all public transport in the RMV area. In addition, the city is a member of the PENDLA network, which provides ride-sharing offers for commuters. These measures also contribute to reducing CO2 emissions.

Wiesbaden is one of six Hessian pilot municipalities in a joint digitization offensive between the federal government and the state of Hesse. The aim is to make administrative services faster, easier and more user-friendly for citizens. This includes the development of a digital 3D model of the city as part of the project ‘Smart City 2030 – Wiesbaden goes smart’, which is supported by the Hessian Ministry of Digitalisation and Innovation with EUR 2.25 million.

With Wintra, a central inner-city intranet was set up for all urban employees. It bundles information, digital services and administrative processes in one place and facilitates internal communication and collaboration within the administration.