Benefits & FAQs

One of our favorite questions — because our people are what matter most to us: as humans, as a team, as a source of knowledge, and as the foundation of our success. That’s why we do everything we can to make sure our sitegeisters are happy in their roles.

At sitegeist, we believe in flexible, agile work. Digital is our “normal” — so remote and hybrid work are part of our daily routine. You can work remotely up to 3 days per week.
If you live more than 100 km from our office, we can discuss a 100% remote setup on an individual basis.

Yes, seriously. Working overtime is rare, but if it happens, every minute counts and is tracked in your time account — always. If there's not much to do next week and the sun is shining: off to the Elbe beach.

It's EMPTY here at the weekend.

The working time account model works really well. Your health is very important to us, so we want to avoid overworking as much as possible and prevent this with clear rules in the interests of your health. a traffic light system has been introduced to counteract excessive accumulation of overtime.

The advantage of the traffic light model lies in the built-in "attention thresholds" that require action. This prevents overtime from continuing to increase unnoticed. Flexibility is an option - not a must. The traffic light system also records minus hours that may occur due to low capacity utilization, for example. The thresholds for minus hours are set lower, as a high number of minus hours is likely to increase the pressure to work more hours in a compressed manner.

The traffic light system ensures that overtime is avoided, effectively managed if unavoidable and promotes a healthy work-life balance. In the green zone (up to 40 hours of overtime or up to 20 minus hours), employees can reduce their hours independently. If they reach the yellow zone (40-80 overtime hours or 20-40 minus hours), a meeting is held with the team coach to plan the reduction in hours within six months. In the red zone (80 or more overtime or 40 or more minus hours), an urgent discussion with all relevant managers is necessary in order to reduce the overtime quickly and prevent further accumulation. Our BULs and Agile Coaches aterpreview the hours on a monthly basis and support the team in using the system transparently and flexibly.

Our experience with this system is excellent. And that's why we're talking about it openly here, because we were only able to confirm it with this system: With mindfulness, burnout is avoidable.

Very. You can tailor your working hours and models individually.

Our core hours are 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., within an 8-hour day. Special arrangements (e.g., part-time, childcare) are possible and coordinated with team lead.

Lunch break? Take it when and how it suits you.

Yes, that's why we invented the so-called initiatives.

An initiative is a working group that works on a specific topic within a predefined time frame with a fixed maximum time budget. Before the initiative begins, the goal must be defined, a lead must be named and a time frame for the duration of the work must be defined. The lead has a fixed amount of time available to work on the initiative. In addition to the lead, up to 3 other people may work on an initiative.

Goals

We want to be able to react more quickly to changes and align ourselves even more closely with the needs of our customers. We want to create more space for employees who want to advance important topics quickly and make the best possible contribution according to their inclinations and skills. Important topics are to be identified more quickly and assigned to those employees who are particularly motivated and suited to them.

Time budget: The time for working on the initiative is prioritized equally to day-to-day business, i.e. even when fully occupied by day-to-day business, the lead has the right to regularly use part of his working time for working on the initiative and to reduce his capacity for day-to-day business accordingly. It is explicitly desired that people take the time to work on the initiative. If someone lacks the time to participate in an initiative due to too much day-to-day business, our Agiles are available to look together for ways to create sufficient time for the initiative by prioritizing and distributing tasks appropriately.

Time budget per initiative: 
1 day per week (8 hours) - in total per initiative, not per participant

Like a project, an initiative has a limited duration. As a rule, the period for an initiative should be around 4 months. However, the duration can be extended if necessary.

Start at Hollenstedt - Presentation of the interim status at the next Hollenstedt - Result at the next but one Hollenstedt

Initiatives are temporary management on a specific topic, for a specific period of time, for a specific topic, for EVERYONE, anyone can propose initiatives, anyone can be the lead of an initiative.

Number of simultaneous initiatives 2+2=4, up to 2 initiatives from employee proposals, up to 2 initiatives are defined by the management.

Examples of past initiatives:

• Our internal learning platform sitegeist Academy
• Our intranet sitegeist Insights
• Software Architecture Peer Group
• AI & machine learning
• sitegeist goes climate neutral
• Diversity at sitegeist

Nope — that’s our job.

You just bring your excitement. We’ll handle the rest with our feelgood process.

Absolutely. Our clients are lovely — but if it fits your role and the project, you can work without direct client contact.

We care most about your happiness and your joy in our work.

We will definitely get back to you once you have emailed us your application documents. If there is a lot to do due to vacation or illness, it may take a few days. 

So please be patient, we will take our time to review your application.

Because Hamburg is the most beautiful city in the world. It’s the gateway to the world — especially for TYPO3, Neos, e-commerce, and digital innovation.

With its media, agency, and gaming scenes, Hamburg is a creative hotspot — and where else can you find a beach, the Reeperbahn, and more bridges than Venice?

The "Hollenstedt" is our regular think tank with all sitegeist employees. The first of this kind took place in Hollenstedt (in Lower Saxony) and the location gave our meeting its name.

We host 1 to 2 single-day events (in Hamburg or in the office) and a 2-day offsite version with an overnight stay and a party.

Everyone gets updates on the company status, financials, team activities, strategy, and more. We work in groups, reflect, brainstorm — and have a lot of fun!