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Management Report
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The recreation department offers discount prices on show tickets (1,305 tickets subsidized at 40% by
Ubisoft in 2011/2012), reductions on certain cultural and gym memberships, leisure weekends and
various social events.
A media lending library provides staff with video games and consoles.
A sports hall reserved for employees offers fitness activities and group lessons.
Skill development
Ubisoft has integrated France’s DIF (Personal Training Right) into its professional training policy. In
2011/2012, the budget allocated to training (excluding salaries) amounted to €1,197 thousand. Ubisoft
also took on interns and trainees during the 2010/2011 financial year. Internships often pave the
way to an actual hire. In France, for example, 35% of the junior employees recruited this year
had previously completed an internship at Ubisoft.
Employment and anti-discrimination
Information on employment and anti-discrimination in France is as follows:
 71.34% of Ubisoft’s workforce are executives,
 Women represent 27% of total employees and 75.6% of women are executives,
 Professional equality between men and women is respected, particularly with regard to
compensation,
 80.2% of employees are employed on permanent open-ended contracts,
 Staff have representation within Ubisoft in France,
 During the 2011/2012 financial year, Ubisoft employed three disabled workers and contributed
€270 thousand to funds for the employment of disabled persons.
Compensation
Compensation in France includes a fixed and a variable portion.
In addition, under Group Savings Plans first implemented in 2001, French employees benefit from a
discount on the Company share price on the financial markets.
1.4.2 SOCIAL PROJECTS
Ubisoft depends on the talent its teams possess and the human factor has remained a central concern
in all its operations since the Company was founded. Entertainment, training and development of each
individual’s potential are central to Ubisoft’s mission as a company.
For eight years now, the Group has been running a sponsorship program entitled “Sharing More Than
Games,” providing management and other support for solidarity initiatives, both individual efforts and
those that are broader-based, within the Group. The scope of this program aims to coincide with our
core business and our values as it ties in initiatives promoting access to education, culture and leisure
for children, teenagers and young adults who are ill or from deprived backgrounds .
There is a wide variety of initiatives and actions carried out under this program, including financial aid,
partnership with an association, gifts of games or sponsoring skills, and these initiatives may be
extended to an individual, locally or even on an international scale.
Some initiatives become ongoing actions, such as the U-Care program, initiated in 2009 by Ubisoft
Shanghai and Ubisoft Chengdu in response to the earthquake that hit the area of Sichuan (China). In
2010 and 2011, the teams focused their efforts on the children from Gansu province, near the
Shanghai studio. This involved material donations, money and skills transfer. As in previous years,
Ubisoft also is maintaining its commitment to associations providing support to children. These include
the Breakfast Club in Canada which provides a healthy, balanced breakfast for almost 15,000 children
each day, the Fondation Théodora in Spain, which visits children in hospital, and the Toys for Tots