“abat has been one of the best employers for years,” says Heike Bruch, Professor of Leadership and Director of the Institute for Leadership and Human Resource Management at the University of St. Gallen and also Scientific Director of Top Job. abat is particularly successful in creating a liveable, healthy and appreciative working environment. “The outstanding results in the culture and collaboration category underline abat AG's clear focus on a working environment characterized by integrity, personal responsibility and genuine teamwork. This corporate culture is a decisive factor in the company's attractiveness as an employer and successful employee retention.”
abat is Top Job Employer of the Year 2025!
In the Top Job 2025 ranking, we took first place in our company class for the third time after 2013 and 2023. “This renewed award is a great recognition of our continuous striving for an employee-centered corporate culture,” says our co-founder and Management Board member Gyde Wortmann. “We focus on transparency, personal responsibility and open communication in order to create the freedom in which our colleagues can develop and play an active role in shaping the company.”
The Center for Employer Attractiveness zeag, in collaboration with the University of St. Gallen, confirmed that these are not just empty words, but reality in practice.
We always receive high praise for our concept with a lot of personal responsibility and fun at work, including from politicians. “abat is a shining example of modern working - even beyond the city limits,” says Bremen's mayor Andreas Bovenschulte about our company.
The Top Job 2025 ranking is based on a regular and comprehensive survey of our employees conducted by the University of St. Gallen. And a look at the results report is impressive: We are consistently at the top in all evaluation criteria, in some cases far ahead of the average of all companies surveyed.
Our colleagues praise a corporate and communication culture in which all figures and decisions are transparent for everyone and in which common sense and personal responsibility play an important role.
For our co-founder Gyde, the repeated first place is a motivation to further develop existing approaches and to act as a role model in the German economy: “This success is an incentive to continue setting new standards in the design of working environments”,
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