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Communication and awareness of the Communication On Progress
Statement of continued support by the Chief Executive Officer
Many references in the CR Report, and new letter of commitment by the CEO, sent to the
Secretary General, to be published on the Global Compact’s website.
HUMAN RIGHTS
Assessment, policy and goals
Description of the relevance of human rights for the company (i.e. human rights riskassessment). Description of policies, public commitments and company goals on Human
Rights.
Protection of Internationally recognized principles including Human Rights is expressly part
of Atos Code of Ethics, which is distributed to all employees in the group, and available to
third parties via Atos web site. Training on the Code of Ethics, including this issue, is given to
core target employees, who must sign an acknowledgement of receipt stating their
commitment
to
abide
by
the
Code
of
Ethics
and
its
principles.
Business Partners and Suppliers are requested to adhere to the respect of the Human Rights,
as the other principles listed in the UN Global Compact, by signing the Atos Suppliers
Sustainability Charter before any conclusion of contract. Business Partners such as agents or
external consultants must undergo a screening on ethics.
The Atos Corporate Social Responsibility Report 2011 and Atos Annual Report 2011 give a
report on Atos actions in this part, with express reference to UN Global Compact principles in
the Key Performance Indicators part.
Implementation
Description of concrete actions to implement Human Rights policies, address Human Rights
risks and respond to Human Rights violations.
Employees and third parties can use any tool to report potential claims, such as hierarchy,
employee representatives, external auditors, public authority … The implementation of a
Business Ethics Reporting Line is under discussion, and should inure at the end of 2012. The
majority of suppliers assessed through the Ecovadis assessment are not located in countries
which
are
identified
as
risky.
Atos regularly consult with Employees representatives, at local or regional level.
In addition, Atos has implemented a structured Stakeholder Dialogue (Page 14 to 23 of the
Corporate Responsibility Report 2011): the kick off meeting took place in November 2011 in
London, and the implementation of Stakeholder Survey provides valuable insights for
improvement in sustainability matters. With this initiative, employee dialogue and idea
generation are encouraged within Atos.
Measurement of outcomes
Description of how the company monitors and evaluates performance.
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No claim regarding Human Rights was reported in the period covered by the COP.
All
purchasers
have
signed
the
Purchasing
Code
of
Ethics.
In 2011, 41% of the total suppliers have been assessed through Ecovadis, compared to 37.5%
in 2010.
Please refer to the Corporate Responsibility Report 2011 (available on www.atos.net) for
more details on policies, actions and results, including specific KPIs.
Correlation table between GRI indicators, reported in the Atos Sustainability Report
2011 and Global Compact Principles 1 & 2:
Profile
Disclosure
LA7
LA8
LA10
LA13
HR2
HR10
Description
Rates of injury, occupational diseases, lost
days, and absenteeism, and number of
work-related fatalities by region.
Education, training, counseling,
prevention, and risk-control programs in
place to assist workforce members, their
families, or community members regarding
serious diseases.
Average hours of training per year per
employee by employee category.
Composition of governance bodies and
breakdown of employees per category
according to gender, age group, minority
group membership, and other indicators of
diversity.
Percentage of significant suppliers and
contractors that have undergone screening
on human rights and actions taken.
Percentage and total number of operations
that have been subject to human rights
reviews and/or impact assessments.
Degree of reporting
(we do report
***/we partially
report**/we do not
report*)
Atos Sustainability
Report 2011 (Where
to find info/remarks)
**
Building a great place
to work - CR report
**
Building a great place
to work - CR report
**
Building a great place
to work - CR report
***
Building a great place
to work - CR report
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Our sustainable
journey - CR report
**
Our sustainable
journey - CR Report
LABOUR
Assessment, policy and goals
Description of the relevance of labour rights for the company (i.e. labour rights-related risks
and opportunities). Description of written policies, public commitments and company goals
on labour rights.
Protection of Internationally recognized principles including Labor Standards is expressly part
of Atos Code of Ethics, which is distributed to all employees in the group, and available to
third parties via Atos web site. Training on the Code of Ethics, including this issue, is given to
core target employees, who must sign an acknowledgement of receipt stating their
commitment to abide by the Code of Ethics and its principles.
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Business Partners and Suppliers are requested to adhere to the respect of the Human Rights,
as the other principles listed in the UN Global Compact, by signing the Atos Suppliers
Sustainability Charter before any conclusion of contract. Business Partners such as agents or
external consultants must undergo a screening on ethics.
The Atos Corporate Responsibility Report 2011 and Atos Annual Report 2011 give a report
on Atos actions in this part, with express reference to the Global Compact principles in the
Key Performance Indicators part. Details of other programs and initiatives are given in the
Corporate Responsibility report, especially in the “Building a Great Place to Work” chapter
(pages
34
to
54).
In 2011, 9 countries took part in the Great Place to Work survey, with 14 more to follow in
2012.
Implementation
Description of concrete actions taken by the company to implement labour policies, address
labour risks and respond to labour violations.
Atos values good labor relations and ensure that a continuous communication with employee
representatives exists. Atos management regularly exchange with local and regional employee
representatives, especially in the European Work council, and had 6 formal meetings with this
EWC
in
2011.
Atos launched at the end of 2010 a global survey in order to measure the “Well Being at
Work” initiative and employees satisfaction. Atos also held various events to increase
awareness
about
disabled
employees
and
professional
integration.
Measurement of outcomes
Description of how the company monitors and evaluates performance.
No claim regarding breach of Labor Rights was reported in the period covered by the COP.
The survey performed end of 2010-beginning of 2011 indicated that the group is perceived as
a responsible group: 62% of respondents indicate that staff are treated fairly regardless of
gender, age, religion, disability or sexual orientation, only 15 % disagree.
Please refer to the Corporate Responsibility Report 2011 (available on www.atos.net) for
more details on policies, actions and results, including specific KPIs .
Correlation table between GRI indicators, reported in the Atos Sustainability Report
2011 and Global Compact Principles 3,4, 5 and 6:
Profile
Disclosure
LA2
LA3
LA4
Description
Total number and rate of employee
turnover by age group, gender, and region.
Benefits provided to full-time employees
that are not provided to temporary or parttime employees, by major operations.
Percentage of employees covered by
Degree of reporting
(we do report ***/we
partially report**/we
do not report*)
Atos Sustainability
Report 2011 (Where to
find info/remarks)
***
Building a great place to
work - CR report
***
Building a great place to
work - CR report
***
Building a great place to
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collective bargaining agreements.
LA5
LA13
LA14
HR2
HR3
HR4
HR5
HR10
Minimum notice period(s) regarding
significant operational changes, including
whether it is specified in collective
agreements.
Composition of governance bodies and
breakdown of employees per category
according to gender, age group, minority
group membership, and other indicators of
diversity.
Ratio of basic salary of men to women by
employee category.
Percentage of significant suppliers and
contractors that have undergone screening
on human rights and actions taken.
Total hours of employee training on
policies and procedures concerning aspects
of human rights that are relevant to
operations, including the percentage of
employees trained.
work - CR report
**
Building a great place to
work - CR report
***
Building a great place to
work - CR report
**
Building a great place to
work - CR report
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Our sustainable journey CR report
**
Corporate Governance CR report
**
Corporate Governance CR report
Operations identified in which the right to
exercise freedom of association and
collective bargaining may be at significant
risk, and actions taken to support these
rights.
**
Our sustainable journey CR report
Corporate Governance CR report
Stakeholder dialogue CR report
Percentage and total number of operations
that have been subject to human rights
reviews and/or impact assessments.
**
Our sustainable journey CR Report
Total number of incidents of
discrimination and actions taken.
ENVIRONMENT
Assessment, policy and goals
Description of the relevance of environmental protection for the company (i.e. environmental
risks and opportunities). Description of policies, public commitments and company goals on
environmental protection.
Protection of Internationally recognized principles including Environment is expressly part of
Atos Code of Ethics, which is distributed to all employees in the group, available to third
parties via Atos web site and to be shared by Partners and Suppliers.
Atos ensures sustainability in the management of all its activities and is committed to
minimize its impact on the environment.
Atos has developed a sustainable portfolio to assist clients in achieving environmental
excellence. The goal is to help develop a low carbon economy by providing its customers
with services and solutions that combine energy efficiency, carbon reductions and financial
savings. The Ambition Carbon Free demonstrates that decarbonizing business strengthens and
develops the company’s profitability. The solution is designed to help companies identify
levers that can both reduce carbon emissions and achieve energy efficiencies. As a result, it
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combines carbon reduction and economic performance. The program addresses the entire
lifecycle of an organization, process, product, data centers or IT for example (raw material
extraction, manufacturing, transport, usage, end of life) and not only the energy consumption
during the usage phase as it is often the case.
The Atos Corporate Responsibility Report 2011 and Atos Annual Report 2011 give a report
on Atos actions in this part, with express reference to un Global Compact principles in the
Key Performance Indicators part. Details of policies and initiatives are given in the Corporate
Responsibility report, especially in the “Environmental Commitment” chapter (pages 61 to
71) and the “Helping to Build the Firm of the Future” chapter (pages 72 to 77).
Atos has decided to decrease its carbon footprint by over 15% for the last two years: thanks to
many efforts, we succeeded in reducing it by 34, 6% (at constant scope) within 3 years (20092011). Atos set a new target of reducing 30% of Corporate Footprint by 2015, total of 45% at
comparable scope, with 2008 baseline.
Concerning ISO14001, objective to have main sites and strategic Data Centers certified by
2013 and work on an ISO 14001 Corporate Certification. 11 data centers were certified by
2010, three additional data centers were under certification process in 2011 and 11 sites are
planned in 2012. Concerning the offices site, today 20 major offices sites are already certified.
Office main sites with more than 400 employees represent around 80% of total sites: France,
Germany, Poland, Spain, India, Brazil, United Kingdom and Belgium.
Implementation
Description of concrete actions to implement environmental policies, address environmental
risks and respond to environmental incidents.
As examples of its “Environmental ambition”, Atos went on implementing its actions towards
greener data center, through virtualization of servers, cloud computing, reducing electricity
consumption.
Atos decided to roll out a carbon audit initiative across all Atos data centers.
Atos
also
adopted
in
2010:
- a specific car fleet management policy which prohibits renting of cars exceeding 120g
CO2/km;
- a waste management policy ensuring that collection, storage, transportation and disposal of
waste
was
properly
managed
and
recycled
as
far
as
possible;
- remote conferencing technologies.
Measurement of outcomes
Description of how the company monitors and evaluates environmental performance.
No claim regarding Environment was reported in the period covered by the COP.
Atos Campus in Bezons (France) was the first office building in France to obtain the triple
certification HQE for Construction, THPE and HQE for Operation. All data centers in the UK
obtained
the
Carbon
Trust
Standard
Certification.
Please refer to the Corporate Responsibility Report 2011 (available on www.atos.net) for
more details on policies, actions and results, including specific KPIs, results regarding high
increase of recycled paper.
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Correlation table between GRI indicators, reported in the Atos Sustainability Report
2011 and Global Compact Principles 7, 8 and 9:
Profile
Disclosure
Description
Degree of reporting
(we do report ***/we
partially report**/we
do not report*)
Atos Sustainability
Report 2011 (Where to
find info/remarks)
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Our sustainable journey CR report
EN1
Materials used by weight or volume.
EN3
EN4
EN5
EN6
EN7
EN16
EN18
EN19
EN26
Direct energy consumption by primary
energy source.
Indirect energy consumption by primary
source.
Energy saved due to conservation and
efficiency improvements.
Initiatives to provide energy-efficient or
renewable energy based products and
services, and reductions in energy
requirements as a result of these initiatives.
Initiatives to reduce indirect energy
consumption and reductions achieved.
Total direct and indirect greenhouse gas
emissions by weight.
Initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions and reductions achieved.
Emissions of ozone-depleting substances
by weight.
Initiatives to mitigate environmental
impacts of products and services, and
extent of impact mitigation.
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Environmental
Commitment - CR report
Environmental
Commitment - CR report
Environmental
Commitment - CR report
Environmental
Commitment - CR report
Environmental
Commitment - CR report
Environmental
Commitment - CR report
Environmental
Commitment - CR report
Environmental
Commitment - CR report
Environmental
Commitment - CR report
Helping to build the firm
of future
ANTI-CORRUPTION
Assessment, policy and goals
Description of the relevance of anti-corruption for the company (i.e. anti-corruption riskassessment). Description of policies, public commitments and company goals on anticorruption.
Protection of Internationally recognized principles including combating corruption, is
expressly part of Atos Code of Ethics, which is distributed to all employees in the group, and
available to third parties via Atos web site. Training on the Code of Ethics, including this
issue, is given to core target employees, who must sign an acknowledgement of receipt stating
their commitment to abide by the Code of Ethics and its principles.
Business Partners and Suppliers are requested to adhere to the respect of the Human Rights,
as the other principles listed in the UN Global Compact, by signing the Atos Suppliers
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Sustainability Charter before any conclusion of contract. Business Partners such as agents or
external consultants must undergo a screening on ethics, which includes questions on
potential links with political parties or place of payment for their services.
A compliance department has been created in January 2010, which defined update of Code of
ethics and anti-corruption policy as first goal. Since July 1, 2011, a new General Counsel has
been in charge of Compliance and Regulatory, reporting to the Group Deputy General
Counsel Legal Compliance & General Matters since 2nd of April 2012.
The Business Partners Compliance tool developed by Siemens will be implemented in the
second semester 2012.
A New policy on Contribution will inter in force during 2012.
The Atos Corporate Responsibility Report 2011 and Atos Annual Report 2011 give a report
on Atos actions in this part, especially in the “Corporate Governance” Chapter, with express
reference to UN Global Compact principles in the Key Performance Indicators part.
Implementation
Description of concrete actions to implement anti-corruption policies, address anticorruption risks and respond to incidents.
Training on the Code of Ethics adopted by the Board of Directors in October 2010 started in
December 2010. It is dedicated to more exposed people in support functions, sales
organization and purchasing, and insist on internal regulations, examples of corrupt practices
and court decisions. Information on at risk countries (and reference to Transparency
International rating) is given.
A specific training on the Anti-corruption was decided at the end of 2011, and its
implementation will be at the end of 2012 – beginning of 2013.
“Adequate procedures” as referred to by the 2010 UK anti bribery law were developed in the
first semester 2011 by Atos UK, with a strong involvement of the UK top management,
additional trainings and explanations.
Measurement of outcomes
Description of how the company monitors and evaluates anti-corruption performance.
No claim or request for monetary sanction for corruption was reported in the period covered
by
the
COP.
Training on the new Code of ethics started end of 2010 and was rolled out on the whole 2011
year, with around a result of 53% of the target people trained.
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Correlation table between GRI indicators, reported in the Atos Sustainability Report
2011 and Global Compact Principle 10:
Profile
Disclosure
HR2
HR10
SO2
SO3
SO8
PR8
Description
Percentage of significant suppliers and
contractors that have undergone
screening on human rights and actions
taken.
Percentage and total number of
operations that have been subject to
human rights reviews and/or impact
assessments.
Percentage and total number of
business units analyzed for risks related
to corruption.
Percentage of employees trained in
organization's anti-corruption policies
and procedures.
Monetary value of significant fines and
total number of non-monetary sanctions
for non-compliance with laws and
regulations.
Total number of substantiated
complaints regarding breaches of
customer privacy and losses of
customer data.
Degree of reporting
(we do report ***/we
partially
report**/we do not
report*)
Atos Sustainability
Report 2011 (Where
to find info/remarks)
***
Our sustainable journey
- CR report
**
Our sustainable journey
- CR Report
**
Corporate Governance CR report
**
Corporate Governance CR report
**
Corporate Governance CR report
**
Corporate Governance CR report