Econocom - 2020 annual report
03 corporate social responsibility nurture our excellence through responsible commitment
Encourage the hiring of those who have retrained
People with disabilities Econocom has committed to a proactive approach to supporting people with disabilities. After the partnership agreement signed in 2014 with the Association pour la Gestion du Fonds pour l’Insertion Professionnelle des Personnes Handicapées (AGEFIPH), Econocom has reached a new level by signing an agreement in 2018 covering all of the Group’s activities in France. With this agreement, Econocom is committed to increasing its employment rate for people with disabilities, by implementing an employment policy which aims to meet four major objectives : recruit, train and integrate people with • disabilities; keep disabled employees engaged • through appropriate career management and improvement in workingconditions; raise disabilityawarenessamongall internal • players andemployeesof Econocom; develop subcontracting with institutions • in the protected environment. The Mission Handicap is very committed internally to raise awareness among all employeesto disability, especiallyduring the European Week for the Employment of DisabledPeople(SEEPH)and in the contextof managementtrainingandrecruitmentteams. It is also presentat recruitingfairs and school forums and participates in the Commission Handicapdu SyntecNumérique . Additionally, Econocomhas introducedseveral awareness initiativesaimedat all staff members,such as e-learning modules showing real-life situations of people with disabilities in the workplace,and a special intranet site.
The POEI scheme (Operational Preparation for Individual Employment) trains new employees. The POEI scheme thus closes the gap between the skills required for the job and the skills the candidate has. It finances all or part of the costs of internal or external training. It allows the unemployed to retrain in IT skills. In 2018 only 10 people ( i.e. slightly less than 1% of new recruits) were recruited using this method. In 2020 we significantly developed this source of recruits, recruiting 66 employees on permanent and temporary contracts and on work/study placements via the POEI scheme, representing 8% of the 909 new staff hired in 2020 for the Services France entity. For these 66 recruitments: 15 women, i.e. 23%; • five engineers, i.e. 7.5%; • three disabled people, i.e. 4.5%; • average age 29.5; • 86% permanent contracts; • the rate at the end of the trial period was • lower (7.5%) to that registered for all new recruits (8.8%).
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