Our team

Turquoise walls, grey wing chairs, walls for painting, beige fleece carpets, comfortable workplaces. The furnishings at OTTO are modern and nicely done however, these are not the only things that reflect New Work. It’s about much more: New Work requires pioneers – companies, which give their employees the freedom to significantly change their behaviour and their attitude and in doing so, place main focus on the people. We do exactly that with our initiative FutureWork: We break old habits and behavioural patterns and establish a sustainable form of modern knowledge work in our company. Idleness is not an issue on the 205,000m² OTTO campus (that converts to 35 football fields). Here, the FutureWork team has structured the New Work communication tools – in other words it has changed the working environment, the mindset and the system. The vision: We work when, where and how depending on what is best to fulfil our tasks. The objective is to create an efficient and linked collaboration, space for innovation and an improved compatibility of work and family life.

Our job officers are OTTO employees, who would like to use their special expertise, to convey a realistic impression of OTTO to applicants. In doing so, potential applicants and specialists are given a better understanding of the culture and work climate at OTTO. The job officers represent the company externally, are open-minded to innovations and social media oriented. There are currently 168 job officers, who work in very different departments such as Purchasing, Sales, BI or Marketing. Employees participating in the OTTO job officer programme attend internal seminars for social media and HR communication or get presentation and diagnostic training.

Plan F: As a network of OTTO and the Otto Group Holding for Women in Business, Plan F supports the strengthening and non-discrimination of women in companies and society. This is a matter of a direct exchange of experiences.

MORE*: The LGBTIQ network advocates tolerance, diversity and equal opportunity on the job and in private life. In this network, employees campaign for the visibility of LGBTIQ individuals in the Otto Group – and reducing prejudice with regard to sexual orientation. They are contact persons, take a stand, provide for acceptance and networking.

Father network: As a network of OTTO and the Otto Group Holding for Women in Business, Plan F supports the strengthening and non-discrimination of women in companies and society. This is a matter of a direct exchange of experiences.

We require a variety of different people and perspectives, to carry OTTO’s success story forward into a digital future. At the same time, diversity is a prerequisite, to be able to reinvent ourselves time and time again. We substantiated the significance of our diversity management by not only OTTO’s signing of the Diversity Charter in October 2012 but also by being the first company in Hamburg to become a member in the Charta der Vielfalt association on 1 April 2019.

Work for people with disabilities, briefly: AfB, is a non-profit inclusive company and has been specialised in refurbishing decommissioned IT hardware from large corporations and public institutions for re-use since 2004. What’s special about the work at AfB is that all work steps in the company are designed in an accessible manner and are carried out together by all people. This cooperation and the integration of employees with disabilities, whose chances in the job market are more difficult elsewhere, are the heart of the company.