to go beyond for our cause,
our industry, and our team.
We know – and knowledge is learned, so we encourage broadening the skillsets and expertise of our employees, whether it is improving technical or business competences. Through our robust career-long training and education fund, we offer continuous learning opportunities, where each employee has up to hundred hours each year for any educational program on company time and budget on top of their regularly assigned trainings. We dedicate around 2 % of our annual revenue to education and knowledge, so as the company grows, so does our drive to improve.
Conferences, seminars, on- and off-line workshops, we seize every opportunity to collect knowledge, as we are eager to keep up with the everchanging industry and to set standards of excellence. Our history is deeply rooted in academia and the desire of researchers to use their skills to improve the industrial world at large has never gone away. It is passed on through generations and everyone at INEA still shares our founders’ urge to put the abstract into reality.
We did not become the largest 100% employee-owned company in the country because we wanted to change our culture, but because we wanted to keep it. Each employee can now join the ownership cooperative and benefit from the company they actively contribute to and help develop. Employee-owners get a one-person-one-vote say in important strategic decisions of the company, along with electing the executive management of the company and cooperative every 4 and 5 years. With this, the goals of INEA are always aligned with the goals of its people – because time at the office should not be spent, it should be lived.
Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), on which our internal ownership system is based, are common in the US and the UK and are slowly making their way over to Europe. Based on years of real-world data, internally owned companies perform better, are more resilient to crises and tend to provide positive effects for the local community in which they exist.
Shares are automatically distributed among the employee-owners based on their job position and tenure – a shorthand for their contribution to the company. The shares are paid out using the added value created each year and automatically redistributed when somebody either leaves or retires. This way, we ensure that ownership is accessible to all employees regardless of their income or seniority, and that no monetary investment is needed or lost during difficult times.
We’re not just creative problem solvers—we’re pushing the limits of possible. Our team brings together visionary thinkers and innovative creators, all driven by a passion for technology. With collaboration at the heart of everything we do, we inspire each other to reach new heights and shape the future of engineering.
By empowering our people to stay curious, embrace new opportunities, challenge the status quo, and act with integrity, we’re building a culture where greatness thrives.
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It is easy to work on something you believe in, and even easier to do it with people you enjoy. It is hard to find indifference in our team, because each and every one of us is deeply invested in something, be it their area of expertise or their work environment in general. We make a clear distinction between work and play, but still offer an environment where we enjoy our work and want to actively contribute. This makes it simple to let our creative minds find solutions untethered by micromanagement, because everyone is grounded by their own internal sense of responsibility and pride in their work.
We solve the seemingly unsolvable together – driven by our collective ambition and personal zest to always improve. Those that see themselves in this approach to work will find in INEA something much more satisfying than just a paycheck. They will find a place to funnel their creative juice to solve problems that matter, build relationships, learn from each other’s perspectives, and win as a team.
The best ideas are those that solve real problems, but they always start somewhere in the abstract. To get further from just an idea, we provide our employees with a creative outlet for pitching new ideas and working on them outside the time and financial constraints of a project.
The group is open to employees from all parts of INEA– including engineers, technicians, students, and administrative staff – but notably excluding management, so the environment is pressure-free by design. After being developed to a proposal phase, ideas go through an internal review process and are allocated a time, place, and a budget to grow. We are proud to say that several improvements to both engineering work and life at INEA came from Creative Lab.
INEA is led by engineers from top to bottom, many of whom have been with us since their student years. Most of our top and middle management started here as students and went through the phases from solving the curious to tackling the most crucial challenges, growing as professionals and leaders in the process.
We offer student work and many interesting opportunities (and apprenticeship and mentorship) for research projects, bachelor’s, and master’s theses, as well as helping to execute on your own ideas – in the past, these have bloomed into anything from independent projects to PhD dissertations. We are open to accepting any ambitious engineer, regardless of the stage of their studies, because we believe that while academic education gives you a strong foundation, the best experience is earned in the field.