Seatti is pleased to announce that Janina Kugel has joined the start-up for managing hybrid teams & flexible workplaces as a board member on April 1, 2023. She will support the company in strategic areas related to hybrid work.
Ms. Kugel is one of Germany's best-known managers. Over the course of her career, she has worked strongly on topics such as diversity, disruption, digitization and ESG. According to Mrs. Kugel, companies must incorporate sustainability, social responsibility and modern, flexible leadership into their business models in order to be successful and continuously focus on employee engagement.
Quick Facts: Janina Kugel
- Ms. Kugel was previously CHRO and member of the Executive Board of Siemens AG, where she was responsible for Human Resources including Diversity and Inclusion, Social Innovation and EHS.
- Ms. Kugel began her career in management consulting and has held several management and leadership positions worldwide.
- In 2018, Manager Magazine honored Ms. Kugel as the “prima inter pares” of the most influential women in the German economy.
- She is currently a supervisory board member in various companies and senior advisor for BCG and the EQT Group. In 2021, Ms. Kugel published the SPIEGEL customer “It's Now: Live, Lead, Work - We Know the Rules, Now We're Changing Them.”
Quick Facts: Seatti
- Seatti was founded in 2021 and is the leading platform for administrative hybrid teams and flexible workspaces for companies that use hybrid work and MS teams.
- Seatti really makes hybrid work possible. Employees can book flexible work spaces in company offices, plan their remote workplaces and share their workplaces with colleagues to promote collaboration. The generated data can be used to optimize office space, increase employee friendliness and support executive management in developing their hybrid work strategy.
- Seatti is a remote-first company with hubs in Berlin, Munich and Madrid.
With the announcement to support Seatti as a board member, Ms. Kugel said “Hybrid working is the working model of the future. Companies must find the right balance between the benefits of office and home work. I am delighted to join the Seatti team and contribute to solutions that allow flexibility without sacrificing collaboration and performance.”
Welcoming Ms. Kugel to the Board, Christopher Bieri, Co-Founder & CEO of Seatti, said: “Ms. Kugel's exceptional experience as a global CHRO and board member in some of the largest companies in the world will make a huge contribution to the development of our company. Their innovative way of thinking about new ways of working, their deep market understanding and their extensive network will help to take our product and strategy to a new level.”
Christopher Bieri adds: “Even if 9 out of 10 companies in Europe are planning to work hybrid in the future, the transition is not free of challenges. Our research shows that 160 billion euros are wasted annually on unused office space, that personal meetings between colleagues have declined by over 30% and that 68% of companies do not fully meet legal and internal requirements. With Ms. Kugel on our team, we can better understand the challenges of international companies so that we can support Seatti's customers even better in their transition to the hybrid working model.”
About Seatti
Seatti was founded in Munich in 2021 by Christopher Bieri, Moritz Hartmann and Johannes Eppler with the aim of maximizing the benefits of hybrid work for companies and their employees while minimizing complexity.
Our product is the leading platform for managing hybrid teams and flexible workspaces for companies that work hybrid and love seamless system integrations. With our solution, which can be integrated into MS Teams, employees can book desks, meeting rooms and parking spaces with just a few clicks and share their hybrid work locations with colleagues. At the same time, companies gain a better understanding of how to use their offices through detailed and privacy-compliant data analyses.
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