dm moves into the new “dm dialogicum Salzburg” – mnews – medianet.at
SALZBURG/WALES. After a construction phase of one and a half years, the employees of dm moved into the dm dialogicum in September. With their open concept, the new possibilities promote exchange and cooperation. Here, employees have the flexibility they need for modern work.
Ideal location and transport links
When planning and selecting the new location, other infrastructure and location play a role. “It was a conscious decision to use an existing property and not to promote the use of landscape around the city of Salzburg,” explains dm managing director Thomas Köck. In terms of transport, the dm dialogicum is ideally located due to the connection to the motorway and public transport, among other things. For example, a bicycle cellar with direct access to changing rooms and showers was newly created. There are also charging options for electric bicycles and the electric cars of the dm company fleet. The involvement of all employees and employees from the various departments as well as the works council was important for the planning of the equipment and design of the new location. They brought their needs and wishes to the project team.
In dialogue with each other
Key features of the dm dialogicum are openness, lived togetherness and dialogue. With the open space concept, the new location includes flexible room divisions and multifunctional rooms for team and project work, meeting zones, space for individual work and video conferences as well as retreat areas. The dm dialogicum has a total of 94 meeting rooms – this shows the high value that dm places on cooperation in projects, working groups and circles as well as on meetings. Part of the open space concept is also that the employees do not have any permanently assigned offices and workplaces, but these are organized within the departments themselves. “Thanks to the spacious and flexible room layout and the meeting zones in the form of smaller and larger café lounges and the inner courtyards and terraces, there is also plenty of space for exchange,” says dm Managing Director Petra Mathi-Kogelnik. The Culinarium, the staff catering area, offers warm meals.
A separate part of the dm dialogicum is dedicated to further development and education. Here you will find, among other things, the rooms of the dm Academy for employees and employees of the dm hairdressing and cosmetics studio, specially equipped rooms for seminars and further training offers as well as a specially equipped video room and a health room.
Openness also for external partners and visitors
Part of the dm dialogicum are also numerous rooms for cooperation and exchange with external partners. In the event area, which is equipped with modern equipment, there are also event rooms that can be used flexibly for internal and external events, for example on topics relevant to the range, visits by pupils and students, discussion events and much more. In addition, the dm world was designed at the new location. This is located directly in the reception area and offers both employees and visitors information about the company, its history, its product range and its work.
Sustainability from the building fabric to the design
“How important sustainability is to dm is shown in the dm dialogicum, among other things, by the use of wood in the ceilings and wood as a component in the furniture, the many well-preserved furniture that were taken from the old location, as well as the sustainable equipment, for example in the form of taps that you can charge yourself,” reports project manager Andrea Renezeder. The dm open spaces should not only be usable for work for the coming summer, but will also become part of the National Park Gardens of Global 2000 through planting is fed, to be able to switch off. (red)
Facts and figures about the dm dialogicum:
April 2021: Start of construction of the new headquarters on the former Baumax site
September 2022: Move to the dm dialogicum
Approximately 9000 m2 of available space, plus 1000 m2 of patios and terraces
550 employees from the management and the departments of marketing & purchasing, employees, expansion, information system management and finance & controlling
Coordination of business in Austria and agendas of the country group dm Austria and associated countries