Universal Registration Document 2022

4.1.2.2 The workplace of the future  is already hybrid

Publicis Groupe will never be a “Zoom Company” even though face-to-face work is evolving; this is how the Chairman of the Management Board, Arthur Sadoun, framed the changes to come in his various internal and external communications in 2020. The vast internal project on The Future of Work theme was opened by inviting all employees to participate. 46% of them worked on future work options by integrating cultural differences. 90% of employees expressed the wish that the “return” would be different from the “before”, based on clear expectations to which concrete solutions were provided:

1. flexibility in all its dimensions: places, times, moments in life, opportunities: flexibility at work has been rethought to offer more and more individualized mechanisms locally with expectations in terms of experience abroad It is this work that led to the creation of the international mobility program #WorkYourWorld (see below);
2. physical and moral well-being, thanks to experts, specific content or useful experiences: the actions in place enabling employees to take better care of their physical and mental health have been perpetuated locally in the countries. A global partnership has been signed with Thrive;
3. professional and personal development, in order to consider future professional challenges: Marcel Classes has been enhanced in several dimensions. The continuing education section includes new modules and new teaching methods that take into account distance and face-to-face learning; the creation of new tools on Marcel, such as the fully individualized Growth Dashboard, makes it possible to support everyone in their professional and personal development;
4. connection and relationship with others; mentoring programs in various entities have been reactivated in order to strengthen the interpersonal relationship. And with the return to the office, agencies have increased the opportunities to bring employees together, to facilitate interactions between teams;
5. the experience, allowing feedback to be received at a personalized pace and provide individualized responses; the Career Conversation tool integrated into Marcel is used flexibly in all entities to facilitate more frequent feedback (depending on the projects, quarterly or half-yearly, and not just annually), and to better support skills development.

#WYW – Work Your World

1,447 employees (of which 41% men and 59% women) benefited from the program in 2022 with a recommendation rate of 90%. With #WorkYourWorld, they were able to work from another global location, for an average stay of 33 days, with the Top 3 destinations: France, India and Italy. In December 2021 this program was announced by the Chairman of the Management Board Arthur Sadoun and it began in January 2022. It is an internal mobility system that is unique in the world, making it possible to respond in a sustainable manner to several wishes expressed by employees in a post-Covid-19 world. The expectations of employees revealed during internal work in 2020 on the future organization of work highlighted a demand for experiences abroad and physical exchanges. The widespread remote working has shown that all Groupe employees can work effectively from different locations. Given the Company’s international footprint with offices in almost every major city around the world, the Groupe’s management wanted to give everyone the opportunity to work from other locations in the world in a simple and flexible way. #WorkYourWorld allows employees to work for up to six weeks from a destination of the employee’s choice – abroad (89 possible countries) or elsewhere in their country of residence. This is agreed with the employee’s direct manager, who validates this change with regard to ongoing projects (approval rate of 96%), and in consultation with his HR/Talent managers. (The employee pays for their transport and accommodation).

Internal mobility

1,442 employees benefited from international mobility in 2021, with international mobility starting to pick up (of which 74% men and 26% women).

In 2022, Marcel offered 12,000 Gigs and Jobs. Gigs are requests made by a team in need of temporary upskilling on a specific subject. They enable people to take advantage of internal skills, thereby helping to move a project forward. The procedure for responding is simple and well-structured. For Jobs, Marcel publishes advertisements in advance of any external recruitment process in order to promote the internal development of employees.