Employees with severe disabilities in Germany

Telekom promotes persons with disabilities

In 2024, employees with disabilities accounted for 7.6 percent of the Deutsche Telekom workforce, once again significantly above the prescribed minimum of 5 percent.

Deutsche Telekom is actively committed to including persons with disabilities in its workforce with a comprehensive range of measures and activities. The aim is not just to provide them with a secure livelihood but also to promote their career advancement over the long term.

To achieve this, the company has various initiatives in place to ensure an inclusive working environment, ranging from measures to ensure disability-friendly workplaces and adapted workstations, to the provision of technical aids. Another noteworthy initiative is our HR hotline for deaf and hearing-impaired employees, underscoring Deutsche Telekom’s unwavering commitment to equity and accessibility. The hotline gives all employees, regardless of hearing ability, equal access to support services.

Deutsche Telekom considers persons with disabilities to be equal employees and an important element of corporate diversity. In our view, diversity not only enriches our company, it is also a source of shared learning and long-term success.

The Group Inclusion Agreement and the related Action Plan 2.0 are expressions of Deutsche Telekom’s commitment to upholding the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Convention’s values are already permanently anchored in our corporate culture and provide the basis from which we promote accessibility, equity, and the inclusion of those with severe disabilities. For us, this is more that just an obligation; it is also an important aspect in creating a diverse and powerful working world.