Horizon Group — Annual Report · 2025 11 / 15
People & Culture
A record year for engagement
Employee engagement reached 82 out of 100 in the autumn survey — the highest score since measurement began, with 91% of the group’s 15,400 employees taking part. The number rests on practical choices rather than slogans: hybrid work is now the standard for every office role, 38% of vacancies were filled internally, and training averaged 26 hours per employee — more than 400,000 hours across the group.
Diversity moved too. Women held 31% of management positions at year end, up from 24% in 2021 and on track for the 40% we have committed to by 2030.
People in numbers
The apprenticeship engine
Vocational training is our longest-running talent programme — and still the most effective one. The 2025 cohort of 120 apprentices, spread across mechanics, automation, logistics and commercial tracks at four sites, is the largest we have ever welcomed. 87% stay with the group after qualification, and a fifth of today’s production supervisors started as apprentices. In 2026 the programme extends to the Zurich technology centre with a new software-development track.
People in 2025
People questions, answered
“Engagement is not a mood — it is the sum of a hundred practical decisions about how work actually gets done. The survey simply tells us whether we made them well.”