DPD Austria receives “Great Place to Work®” award for the third time in a row

For DPD Austria (Direct Parcel Distribution Austria GmbH) – Austria’s leading private parcel service* – it also says in 2025: “We are a Great place to work!”. This is confirmed by the renewed recertification of this employer award.

“This repeated certification underlines our high level of commitment to a positive and attractive working environment. It confirms and makes us proud that our employees: Inside our corporate culture, Mag. Rainer Schwarz, Managing Director DPD Austria, and adds: “For us, the seal of approval is a special confirmation in the inside and an essential signal to the outside world when it comes to recruitment of new employees: Inside, because the employer image of the logistics is sometimes not very valued in public perception. Completely wrong, because package logistics is more than ever an important engine for economic growth and offers many interesting jobs or development opportunities. ”

90 % of the employees surveyed: Inside at DPD Austria, find that they have a great job. The “Great Place to Work” at DPD is characterized by the integrative behavior of management, which was rated as very satisfactory by 88 %. Other important values ​​in the corporate culture are, for example, the team spirit, which significantly over 80 % of the employees: inside.

Other, attractive attributes of the DPD employer brand are good communication, friendliness among themselves and the competent leadership behavior. These parameters have rated around 85 % of the college: very positively on the inside.

The basis for the “Great Place to Work®” certificate is an independent and anonymous employee: internal survey on the workplace culture at DPD Austria. Information on this www.greatplacetowork.at

About DPD in Austria

DPD Austria (DPD Direct Parcel Distribution Austria GmbH) is Austria’s leading private parcel service* and has been standing for first-class package logistics solutions for business and private customers for 37 years. Founded in 1988 as the first private parcel service (then APS -AUSTRIA PACKET System), DPD is based on the logistics infrastructure of its shareholders – Austria’s leading freight forwarders Brothers Weiss, Lagmax and Schachinger. Throughout Austria, around 2,500 logistics experts are active in the DPD network, which together with a transport fleet of 1,600 vehicles moved around 62.3 million packages in 2024. Another strong mainstay of this network is the 3,000 pickup locations (package shops and stations) across Austria in which packages can be sent, picked up and returned. Internationally, as part of French geopost, DPD has access to the strongest road network in Europe and access to around 128,000 pickup locations in 50 countries.

*Kep radar, February 2025