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Feature09 May 2019,
updated09 May 2019Siemens AGMunich
His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales has visited the headquarters of Siemens AG while on a trip to Germany. The Prince's trip is focused on the bilateral relations between the United Kingdom and Germany. During his roughly 45-minute tour of the company's headquarters, Prince Charles learned about topics such as sustainability, the new world of work and Siemens' Cents4Sense initiative. He also signed the company's visitors' book.
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His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales has visited the headquarters of Siemens AG while on a trip to Germany. During his roughly 45-minute tour of the company's headquarters, Prince Charles learned about topics such as sustainability, the new world of work and Siemens' Cents4Sense initiative. He also signed the company's visitors' book.
His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales has visited the headquarters of Siemens AG while on a trip to Germany. During his roughly 45-minute tour of the company's headquarters, Prince Charles learned about topics such as sustainability, the new world of work and Siemens' Cents4Sense initiative. He also signed the company's visitors' book.
His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales has visited the headquarters of Siemens AG while on a trip to Germany. During his roughly 45-minute tour of the company's headquarters, Prince Charles learned about topics such as sustainability, the new world of work and Siemens' Cents4Sense initiative. He also signed the company's visitors' book.
His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales has visited the headquarters of Siemens AG while on a trip to Germany. During his roughly 45-minute tour of the company's headquarters, Prince Charles learned about topics such as sustainability, the new world of work and Siemens' Cents4Sense initiative. He also signed the company's visitors' book.
His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales has visited the headquarters of Siemens AG while on a trip to Germany. During his roughly 45-minute tour of the company's headquarters, Prince Charles learned about topics such as sustainability, the new world of work and Siemens' Cents4Sense initiative. He also signed the company's visitors' book.
His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales has visited the headquarters of Siemens AG while on a trip to Germany. During his roughly 45-minute tour of the company's headquarters, Prince Charles learned about topics such as sustainability, the new world of work and Siemens' Cents4Sense initiative. He also signed the company's visitors' book.
His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales has visited the headquarters of Siemens AG while on a trip to Germany. During his roughly 45-minute tour of the company's headquarters, Prince Charles learned about topics such as sustainability, the new world of work and Siemens' Cents4Sense initiative. He also signed the company's visitors' book.
His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales has visited the headquarters of Siemens AG while on a trip to Germany. During his roughly 45-minute tour of the company's headquarters, Prince Charles learned about topics such as sustainability, the new world of work and Siemens' Cents4Sense initiative. He also signed the company's visitors' book.
Further Information
Topics of the visit
The Siemens-corporate Headquarters
After a six-year project period, including three years of construction work, the new Siemens headquarters building in Munich opened its doors on June 24, 2016. With about 45,000 square meters of aboveground floor space, the company has created a modern, inspiring work environment for about 1,200 employees. Environmental friendliness and energy efficiency play a key role here: the new building meets the world's highest sustainability standards.
The future of work
Digitalization is affecting every area of human life – including the jobs we do. That’s why we are using technology to create empowered employment opportunities. As a future-oriented company, it’s our responsibility to design new strategies that place employees at the center of this ongoing change. More than just a buzzword, the ‘future of work’ means taking a people-first approach to the way we navigate an increasingly digital world. That approach begins with how we recruit the next generation of talent and is an essential part of what we do to retain and reskill the almost 380,000 employees we call our Future Makers.
Vibrant equity culture at Siemens: around 300,000 employee shareholders
Siemens wants to foster a vibrant equity culture at all levels of the company. Through a variety of share plans such as the Share Matching Program – one of the world's largest employee share programs – Siemens employees can also become company owners. Share ownership is a key aspect of Siemens' Ownership Culture, which aims to motivate every employee to act as if Siemens were his or her own company. Around 80 percent of Siemens' global workforce currently holds shares in the company. This year saw the launch of the Cents4Sense initiative, which enables employees around the world to donate the dividend from a single Siemens share (€3.80). The donations are being used to support international projects run by Siemens Stiftung, a foundation active in the areas of education, developmental cooperation and culture.
Siemens History in the UK
The opening of the first international office in London
Even before Werner von Siemens founded "Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske" in Berlin in 1847, he began marketing his inventions in the United Kingdom. As early as 1843, he sent his brother Wilhelm (officially William as of 1859) to London with instructions to patent an electrolytic method of gold and silver plating he had patented in Prussia. One year later, in 1844, Wilhelm settled permanently in London as a "civil engineer" and opened a sales agency for Siemens & Halske on March 16, 1850.
Even before Werner von Siemens founded "Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske" in Berlin in 1847, he began marketing his inventions in the United Kingdom. As early as 1843, he sent his brother Wilhelm (officially William as of 1859) to London with instructions to patent an electrolytic method of gold and silver plating he had patented in Prussia. One year later, in 1844, Wilhelm settled permanently in London as a "civil engineer" and opened a sales agency for Siemens & Halske on March 16, 1850.