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Corporate Responsibility
D.2
Being a Responsible employer
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Take in account disabled people
France, Atos signed with French trade unions representatives a
collective agreement related to the employment and
development of disabled people.
representatives, to attract and develop handicapped people into
meaningful employment. Again, the goal of this initiative is both
achievement within Atos teams. Specific programs have been
implemented in different locations, in collaboration with union
to support this population and also open people’s mind to
consider opportunities for disabled persons. In May 2013, in
whatever difficulties they have to face. The same applies in the
business where disabled employees accomplish also remarkable
Atos is always impressed by the fact that Paralympic athletes
show outstanding performance in many different disciplines
Being in charge of the IT support for the Paralympic Games,
In 2016, Atos Group employed 1,227 people with a disability.
Building a Great Place toWork
D.2.3
Social collaboration
D.2.3.1
an outcome of the Zero Email initiative
[AO11]
.
The Social Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing department is
coming from acquisition as well as due to organic growth.
values, as well as the different expert communities have proven
to be instrumental for the onboarding of new employees, both
adoption by continuing to develop processes that enable
employees to work together across organizational, geography
processes, policies and tools. This global team ensures further
acquired businesses. The ESN (Entreprise Software Networks)
communities used to share the Atos way of working and its
and time boundaries in a flexible and organized way. One of the
key responsibilities is to support the integration of newly
order to take responsibility for the design and implementation of
an Atos-wide social collaboration and knowledge sharing culture,
During second half of 2015, this new function was established in
the world, with 24% of employees actively using the landscape
of 3,824 active communities.
At the end of 2016, all employees are registered on the Atos
enterprise social network, making it one of the largest ESN’s in
topics throughout Atos.
members at the end of 2016. This brings further efficiencies to
global collaboration and sharing of expertise on a wide variety of
During 2016, the average size of collaborative communities on
Atos’ platform continued to increase from 194 in 2015 to 341
The 2016 MAKE award, second in row for us after winning the
award in 2015, is all the more special as Atos being the only IT
services company among the winners. The award is given to
collaboration. Atos is seen as one of very few IT companies
worldwide that is efficiently sharing & replicating best practices
companies which continuously demonstrate shareholder’s value
creation through superior management of knowledge and
across the global ecosystem of clients and partners. This award
bears testimony to Atos strong culture of collaboration.
Unify’s award winning Unified Communication and Collaboration
platform called Circuit.
workplace by pursuing the convergence of its blue Kiwi ESN and
Together with the acquisition of Unify, Atos has announced the
next step in its ambition to provide a best in class digital
Awareness and involving employees
D.2.3.2
United Nations, which states as principle 3 that Business should
uphold the freedom of association and the effective recognition
standards, by applying principles of the ILO Conventions, as it is
required through its participation to the Global Compact of the
of the right to collective bargaining.
Atos ensures the full compliance with the International Labor
built a concrete organization of the social dialogue.
To ensure the respect of the freedom of association, Atos has
Equens.
project during 2016 was the integration of Anthelio, Unify and
Communication with the employee representatives is a
permanent and constructive dialogue within the employee
representative bodies at European and country levels. The major
be illustrated by effective social discussions at European and
country levels.
The social dialogue is very constructive and positive and it can
A culture of permanent social dialogue
have the SEC as a key partner acting in a complete
transparency.
Group employees and most of the time before top management.
This demonstrates high level of mutual trust and strong wish to
information related to any transformation or acquisition as soon
as it is possible before communicating the information to all the
The SEC (Societas Europaea Council) representing circa 63,000
people across Europe in 24 different countries is deeply involved
in all the events concerning the Company. They get the
ordinary and extraordinary).
schedule at least 3 meetings per years. During 2016, six
meetings were scheduled and effectively took place (both
It was planned in the Societas Europeas Council agreement to
For 2016, five meetings have already been planned.