Sustainable business

For Bilia, it is important to have an inclusive work environment. All employees, regardless of background, should be included in the operation, feel empowered and work on equal terms. Key to this is a set of Bilia core values that are well-established among all employees, along with a good work environment with clear, transparent structures for dealing with any challenges or conflicts.

The psychosocial work environment is measured in the annual employee survey; it is well above the benchmark and also further improved during 2021.

Bilia strives for gender equality in its organisation, whereby men and women alike are represented in all professional categories. We are convinced that a more even gender distribution has positive effects on both the work environment and profitability, but there is a dearth of women in the industry. Bilia is therefore running a raft of initiatives to increase the proportion of women, such as a stronger recruitment policy and regular follow-up.

Bilia’s recruitment policy is always to call women with the right qualifications for an interview, at least one woman should be included as a final
candidate in the process, and in the event of equal skills to employ the female candidate. 

All employees should have opportunities for professional development in their role. All our co-workers have regular performance appraisals with their immediate managers. The appraisals are opportunities for co-workers to discuss their role in the company, request changes, and put forward thoughts and ideas on how the individual can take on greater responsibility or other kinds of work tasks.

One challenge faced by Bilia is securing professional skills in the future. In light of this, Bilia pursues joint projects with Swedish automotive engineering schools, and offers students work experience and apprenticeships. Bilia’s vision is to offer the best student programme in the business, and these programmes accepted 400 students in Sweden and Norway during 2021.

For work to function, all of life has to function. At Bilia, we want to have a sustainable long-term relationship with our employees. We therefore strive to be receptive, and to work with the individual employee to find solutions that help both them and the company. One example is Joline Persson Planefors, who won both a gold and a silver medal at the World Tenpin Bowling Championships in Dubai in 2021. “I’m truly grateful to have a manager who supports me so I can carry on competing in my sport,” says Joline. By day Joline is a Market Coordinator in the Marketing department, and mixing elite sports with a regular job can be quite tough. “We try to support as best we can, and we think it’s important people can focus on their sport,” says Anna
Wedin, Marketing Manager for Bilia in Sweden.