The risk that NS’s investments abroad cost money rather than bringing in money.
More than 1 million trips by train and bus every day mean that NS has a major impact on society in the Netherlands, in terms of mobility, safety, emissions...
NS is one of the biggest employers in the Netherlands and is a strong brand in the labour market. Every day, our nearly 22,000 employees enable people’s...
The labour market is becoming tighter and tighter. The number of job vacancies is increasing, unemployment is falling, the population is ageing and there is...
NS wants to be seen as an attractive employer where everyone can feel at home.
We continually need to learn new approaches and new knowledge in order to be able to guarantee good operational and financial performance in the future....
For the employee participation bodies, 2018 was all about the elections for the works councils and ‘subcommittees’. The turnout was high; over 60% of the...
The biennial employee engagement survey was held in 2018. The survey had a response of 66% (over 14,000 participants). The satisfaction score for work in...
The sickness absence rate at NS was 6.0% in 2018 (5.7% in 2017). Sickness absence among chief guards is systematically high, in part because of the ageing...