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ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Internal mobilization and management of our direct impacts

Other initiatives were taken to improve well-being in the workplace, including for example the opening of a concierge service in Charenton,provisionof two new services (emergency and occasional childcare) in addition to the proposal of cribs, funded since 2015 by Natixis, and an informationplatformcalled “My FamilySolutions.” The “Work& Life at Natixis” programlaunchedin 2016, both in France and abroad,ensuresthat all Natixis entities can share and expand these different initiatives. In 2017, the second annual “Work & Life Week” provided an opportunity to hold conferences on the collaborativeworkplace, as well as various local events in Paris, the provincesand abroad. Several international initiatives are also worthy of note: Throughout the EMEA region, “wellness/health days” or “wellness weeks” were organized in the course of the year. These initiativeswerewidelyapprovedby all participatingstaff.

Quality of life at work At the end of 2015, the Senior ManagementCommitteesigned the “15 Work/Life Balance Commitments”charter. An initiative of the French Ministry of Social Affairs, Health and Women’s Rights, and by the OPE (French observatoryaimed at improving the balance between work and home life), the charter encourages signatory companies to take action in favor of a betterwork-balance. In 2017, Natixis steppedup its efforts to developquality of life at work, in line with the four objectivesof the 2016 Quality of Life in the Workplace agreement: ensuring conditions that enable employees to deliver high-qualitywork, improving the quality of relationsand cooperation,improvingwell-beingin the workplace, and better addressing the human aspects of transformation projects. Natixis continuedrolling out its telecommutingprogramthis year in France, with more than 2,500 telecommutersat end-2017,i.e. 25% of employees within the scopes of operation where the programhas been implemented.

2017 Key Events Natixis takes first place in the Quality of Life in the Workplace category at the “Victoires des Leaders du Capital Humain” Awards Natixis received the top award for its “Work & Life at Natixis” program, deemed to be practical, collaborative, visible and central to the Company's strategy. Created by the Leaders League and “Décideurs Magazine”, this award acknowledges best practices adopted by companies on the CAC 40, the SBF 120, ISEs and growing companies. Launch of the Easy program Designed to simplify work on a daily basis and to facilitate cooperation among teams and job mobility, the Easy program is a collection of initiatives such as the testing of new workspace arrangements and deployment of new tools to promote more interactive, collaborative and agile working methods.

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geographic criteria. The results are presented each year to the CHSCT. On the medical front, Natixis S.A. has a Full-Service Medical Department to provide its staff with complete medical care. Natixis also has a social service staffed with full-time social workers. Natixis S.A.’s offices, and all eligible subsidiaries (50-employee threshold), have a CHSCT which, in cooperation with Management and occupational healthcare services, plays an active role in all areas that involve health, security and working conditions. Various initiatives, such as preventive campaigns organized by Natixis’ staff physician, and provision of a 24/7, 365-day-a-year psychologicalsupport service available from the office or home, are in place to improvehealthand well-beingin the workplace.

Occupational health and safety In the interest of preventing stress and psychosocial risks, Natixishas undertakena numberof initiativeswithinthe scopeof Natixis France to encouragea proactive policy to prevent stress at the workplace and psychosocialrisks. A collective bargaining agreement was signed in 2010 and is a cornerstone of this preventivepolicy. In 2016 negotiation began with the unions to consolidate this approach, through the Committee on Psychosocial Risk Preventionand Monitoring,as well as tools to assess stress and the social environmentin the workplace. With the Stress Observatory,employees can complete a stress questionnaire during their periodic medical exam. From a company-widestandpoint,the observatorymaintainsa statistical database used to measure the global stress level of staff and how it changes over time, based on organizational and

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