Criteo strives to ensure that its employees enjoy a healthy work-life balance.

1. Working hours

While there is no explicit policy on remote working at Criteo, region or country leadership teams are free to allow it if and when necessary.

In the Americas, secure networks allow employees to work remotely. This is culturally engrained in Criteo Americas. Employees with long commutes or good reason to work from home regularly use this option (e.g. to take care of a child). Remote working or flex hours to suit personal needs are key advantages of working in Criteo Americas.

In EMEA, Criteo generally expects employees to be in the office during customer opening hours. There is no formal remote working policy in place. However, employees are allowed to work outside the office from time to time after consulting with their team/manager and the company proposes flexible arrival and leaving hours (8:00 am to 10:00 am and 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm, respectively). Criteo also has a practice of allowing people to work from Criteo offices in other countries.

In APAC, Criteo offers flexible work hours to enable a healthier work-life balance in practice. This is notably the case in China, Japan and India where employees have long commutes. They are able to arrange their work time to avoid peak hours. In most countries, this has been implemented on an informal basis, except for Japan where it is included in policies.

2. Employee relations

a. Organization of social dialogue

Communication and transparency are key values at Criteo.

Internal communications

The principal tool for company-wide communication is the “global All-Hands” event organized every three weeks by the CEO to provide key business updates to employees and allow them to ask questions. Each department has regular functional All-Hands to disseminate further information on key business priorities and performance metrics. Change of any kind (involving systems, processes or other issues impacting employees) is communicated during face-to-face sessions to supplement emails on the topic, allowing employees to ask questions or raise concern.

A culture of feedback

Criteo strives to espouse a feedback culture. In October 2017, the company partnered with Glint, an employee engagement specialist, to create the new “Voices” employee survey in all offices to take the pulse of the organization. This employee survey is a key opportunity to determine areas for improvement by reviewing the scores from 30 questions and the qualitative comments left by employees. Participation rate reached 78% and 2,695 comments were left by employees. The global engagement rate was 77% with 80% of respondents recommending Criteo as a great place to work.

The main strengths identified through the employee survey were the following:

• Team: 85% of respondents declared that they have good working relationships with the people they interact with on a regular basis.
• Contribution: 81% of respondents understand how the work they do contributes to achieving Criteo’s goals.
• Ethics: 78% of respondents think that Criteo is committed to doing business in an ethical way.
• Diversity: 76% of respondents think that Criteo is committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace.
• Culture: 74% of respondents think that Criteo has a great culture.

This survey has also been an opportunity to identify key areas for improvement, both at company and teams’ level in order to build action plans to address those areas to watch and employees’ expectations for Criteo to improve on a few topics. Action plans have been implemented and will be monitored by both from the Human Resources team and the management team.

Another major feedback tool is Criteo’s manager survey that occurs twice a year, where employees provide feedback about their managers. Based on the results, managers can identify areas for professional development. Criteo also conducts On-boarding surveys a few weeks after new hired people join the company to continuously improve the onboarding experience. Exit interviews with voluntary leavers are also used to pinpoint the main causes of turnover and better understand and address potential issues.

These programs are all coordinated centrally by the Human Resources team.

Employee representatives

In certain offices, dialogue with employee representative bodies is also an important facet of communication:

• Employees in France are represented by a works council, a health and safety committee and employee delegates. The works council is informed and consulted on economic and social matters and manages social and cultural activities. The health and safety committee is informed and consulted on important decisions regarding safety and working conditions. Employee delegates are appointed for the negotiation of company-wide collective agreements. Regular meetings (monthly, bi-monthly and/or quarterly) are held with the employees' representatives, in addition to extraordinary and informal meetings.
• In Japan, the responsibilities of employee representatives are defined by law. These include defending employees’ interests in the event of policy changes regarding overtime, holidays, working hours or wages. In 2017, one meeting was held with Japan employee representatives regarding local policy change on congratulatory and condolence allowance.
• In the other countries, there is no formal employee representation, although Criteo endeavors to consult employees before implementing any major changes.

b. Summary of collective agreements

Company collective agreements and collective bargaining agreements are created and implemented to promote employees’ working conditions.

In 2017 one collective agreement was signed at country level. This collective agreement is signed every May in Brazil, and applies to all Internet companies registered in the country. It typically addresses salary increases to compensate for annual inflation in Brazil and other benefits such as health insurance, overtime, maternity/paternity leave, and meal vouchers. It is important to note, however, that Criteo offers a better and wider range of benefits than what is stipulated in the collective agreement.

As last year has been a very active period regarding collective agreements (Criteo came up with six agreements signed in 2016), no other major company-wide collective agreement was signed in 2017.

3. Health and safety

The health and safety of its employees is a priority for Criteo. The company devotes time and effort across all geographies to providing good working conditions and the healthiest office environment to its employees; from bright and spacious offices to top-quality desks, chairs and laptops. As working in a risk-free environment is crucial to its employees and guests, Criteo generally goes beyond local applicable regulations.

a. Wellbeing

In all offices, Criteo is committed to promoting employees’ physical and mental wellbeing. To this end, nearly all offices are allocated a budget to encourage employees to exercise. Sport and physical activities are part of Criteo DNA. Each region provides the opportunity to exercise with social and low-cost services:

• Most Criteo offices offer on-site wellness activities (including yoga, Pilates and massages). These are available to employees free of charge, and are highly popular.
• In EMEA, Criteo also provides a sport subsidy which allows people to engage in fitness activities outside of the office and can be used for gym memberships, fitness trainer, sports club memberships and so on.
• In Criteo’s offices in APAC, sports club membership subsidies are commonly used to incite employees to hit the gym. Certain locations arrange a regular badminton activity.
• In the Americas, a mandatory health exam has been introduced in Brazil, while all employees in the United States can register for on-site health screening and flu shots to improve preventive care. In addition, in Brazil on an employee’s employment anniversary, they receive a voucher for an annual full health check-up package that includes a comprehensive screening of the whole body to identify any illness and disease in the early stages.

Moreover, most offices and workstations around the world provide standing desks to their employees (with no medical prescription required) or specific ergonomic seating (with medical prescription required). Based on individual needs, those special appliances enhance physical comfort in the workspace.

As well as activities supporting physical wellbeing, Criteo is also sensitive to the mental wellbeing of its employees. It can be difficult for people to open up about mental health concerns, but Criteo is taking steps to encourage discussions about the topic. To ensure a no-stress environment at the office and to be proactive on the subject, Criteo’s workforce can benefit from an employee assistance service. This external free and confidential helpline service can be reached 24/7 for advice and support on a variety of issues. If necessary, employees have the opportunity of having five free counseling sessions. Also, when a specific incident occurs (such as terrorist attack.), Criteo’s Human Resources and Workplace Experience teams create tailor-made solutions as soon as required in order to support employees.

b. Safety

Although Criteo has not deployed a global safety policy, the company endeavors to ensure a safe workplace environment and provides its offices with all necessary safety measures. At its major locations, such as Paris, a nurse is available on-site. Several defibrillators and first aid kits have been installed, and first aid training is available to volunteer employees once a year, with renewal sessions every other year.

As workplace safety is a key priority, Criteo guarantees to comply with all safety regulations and strictly conforms to their requirements. For example, in the United States, Criteo complies with federal legislation (Official Security and Health Agreement) by displaying posters with health guidelines in office spaces, publishing a report once a year on work-related accidents and entitling its workers to compensation insurance.

In 2017, Brazil implemented the Internal Commission on Accident Prevention (CIPA) that aims to prevent work related accidents and diseases. Moreover, the Programs of Medical Control of Occupational Health (PCMSO) and the Program of Prevention of Environmental Hazards (PPRA) have also been renewed for every Brazilian worker.

The safety of employees traveling for business is also important to Criteo. In 2016, Criteo launched a new International SOS Assistance tool to complement the existing employee emergency assistance with AXA healthcare. This tool not only acts as a 24/7 hotline for support on security issues, especially when travelling, but also tracks all Criteo travelers so that they can be identified and Criteo can reach out to them in an emergency.

No collective agreement related to health and safety conditions was signed in 2017.