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Corporate social responsibility
4Methodology note on employee-related, environmental andsocial reporting
4.1 Methodology note on employee-related,
environmental andsocial reporting
❙ 4.1.1 INDICATOR FRAMEWORK
Ubisoft based its framework on:
♦
the new regulatory requirements in France established
or reinforced by Article 225 of the Grenelle II law and its
implementing decree (Decree No. 2012-557 of April 24, 2012,
on corporate transparency obligations regarding employee-
related and environmental matters);
♦
the G3 guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI),
a multiparty organization, which prepares a framework
of sustainable-development reporting indicators that are
internationally recognized and whose purpose is to develop
globally applicable directives for reporting on companies’
economic, environmental and social performance.
❙ 4.1.2 REPORTING PERIOD
Reporting periods differ depending on CSR themes. These break
down as follows:
CSR data
Reporting periods
04/01/15– 03/31/16
(12 months) 01/01/15– 12/31/15 (12 months)
Employee-related ✔
Environmental ✔
Social ✔
❙ 4.1.3 SCOPE OF REPORTING
The scope used for CSR reporting is the Group, which is defi ned as
all fully consolidated companies.
However, some indicators are only available for a limited scope.
Where this is the case, and in the interests of consistency, the
reporting scope is defi ned as follows:
♦
employee-related indicators (1): companies outside France
> 100 employees and French companies (2) ;
♦
environmental indicators (3): non-French sites
> 25 employees and French sites (2).
Where appropriate, the scope covered is always indicated, giving
the companies/sites concerned and/or their representativeness as
a percentage of the Group’s headcount.
Employee-related reporting covers all of the Group’s subsidiaries,
with the exception of the Canadian subsidiary Hybride
Technologies Inc. (93 employees), not currently integrated in the
Group’s human resources scope of reporting.
❙ 4.1.4
CHANGE IN METHOD/CONDITIONS
COMPARED WITHTHEPREVIOUS YEAR
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Change in the scope of reporting linked to employee-related
indicators for which information is only available for a limited
scope:
Scope of
reporting 04/01/15– 03/31/16 04/01/14– 03/31/15
Companies outside
France > 100 employees > 200 employees
French companies 100% 100%
% staff taken into
account 92.04% 83.80%
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Change in environmental indicators following the carbon
audit carried out in early 2015, refl ecting the materiality matrix
generated.
• For greenhouse gas emissions (see section 4.3.2), the indicator
for business trips has been updated to measure their carbon
footprint in a meaningful way: until 2014, business trips (by
air/rail) were only monitored based on quantity, and were
defi ned as an order comprising return and multiple-destination
journeys. In 2015, this was done more accurately by identifying
the number of single journeys and the annual distance covered
for each type.
• For consumables (see section 4.3.3.2), the indicator used
until 2014 was internal paper consumption. This indicator
was replaced in 2015 by materials consumption (plastic,
cardboard, etc.) for the video game production business and
ancillary products (action fi gures, etc.), which is a more accurate
refl ection of the Ubisoft Group’s carbon footprint.
As a result of these changes, information is supplied in the event of
material impact on the comparability of CSR data with data reported
the previous fi nancial year.
(1) The scope defined in this way covered 92.04% of Ubisoft Group staff at the end of March 2016
(2) Scope defi ned on the basis of Ubisoft Group staff at the end of September 2015
(3) The scope defi ned in this way covered 97.8% of Ubisoft Group staff at the end of March 2016
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