ROTO management and Supervisory Board

As of 1 January 2021, Ditmar Koster (CEO) and Tom van Lindert (CFO) form ROTO’s management. During 2022, the ROTO management mainly focused on redefining and integrating the collaborative strategy of ROTO and the five Business Units. It is guarding the ROTO Strategy House, the core values and the eight core themes ROTO has defined, leading to broad value creation.

Roto B.V. applies the provisions of the mitigated two-tier regime and has an independent Supervisory Board consisting of four persons. Petra van Saaze and Arnaud de Boer joined the Supervisory Board in 2022. Coert Zachariasse (chairman) and Heleen Cocu–Wassink remained in their position.

Hybrid way of working is here to stay

As a result of covid, a scheme was introduced to facilitate working from home, which was continued in 2022 to a maximum of 50% of regular hours. This arrangement gives our Family members more flexibility and less travel time. However, for most of our Family members at our production sites, working on site remains a necessity.

Absenteeism due to illness

In 2022, the absenteeism rate due to illness for ROTO was 7.7% (2021: 7.9%), well above our long-term target of 4% (or less) which we aim to achieve with a different and more personalised employee-oriented approach by the Family members responsible for HRM. Challenges and lessons learned are discussed in the HRM Community.

The absenteeism frequency of between 0.9 and 1.6 over the whole year is, on average, slightly worse than in 2021 (0.8 and 1.1 respectively), partly still due to the latest struggles with covid and the subsequently recurring ‘normal’ flu.