44% of companies consider themselves highly family-friendly – yet only 24% of employees agree. This gap highlights an important reality: work-life balance is far more than a benefit on paper. It is experienced in everyday working life – through genuine flexibility, support for personal responsibilities, and an understanding of different life stages.
This is exactly where kununu’s award comes in. It makes visible how employees truly perceive their working reality – based on independent reviews. Only around 3% of companies meet the required criteria, and the award will be presented for the first time in 2026.
EBCONT is among this select group of employers whose employees report a particularly high level of satisfaction with their work-life balance. Because family-friendliness is not defined by individual measures, but by everyday practice: flexible frameworks, understanding for individual life situations, and the natural integration of different life phases.
“Today, work-life balance goes far beyond traditional family models. It includes a wide range of life realities – from childcare to caring for relatives,” says Nina Zimmermann, CEO of kununu. “With this award, we are recognizing companies for the first time that enable this diversity in everyday working life and thus set a strong example for modern employer attractiveness.”
“For us at EBCONT, work-life balance means creating conditions that reflect the real-life situations of our employees. The fact that our colleagues experience this in their daily work and confirm it on kununu makes this recognition particularly meaningful to us,” says Johannes Litschauer, Managing Director of EBCONT.
The award is based on clearly defined criteria and is granted exclusively on the basis of authentic kununu reviews. It highlights how crucial the employee perspective is when it comes to shaping work-life balance in a credible and sustainable way.