Promoting employee development
Pierre Fabre Laboratories strives to offer a working environment that fosters success, professional development and personal fulfillment. An annual engagement survey measures employee satisfaction and support for the company’s strategy, to identify areas where we can improve our operations and performance. According to Forbes magazine and its benchmark annual ranking, our company is one of the world’s best employers: in 2022, Pierre Fabre ranked 3rd among cosmetics companies and 6th among pharmaceutical laboratories.
Standing alongside employees
The Group is committed to supporting its employees on a daily basis, in terms of both their professional development and well-being at work. Employees based in France have access to an in-house Occupational Health and Social Affairs Department which provides local advice.
In addition to individual support, information and awareness-raising sessions are regularly organized on subjects as varied as housing, disability, the role of carers and overall health. In 2022, for example, more than 200 employees took part in a webinar on carers, while an online game on disability awareness was played over 1,000 times.
In its subsidiaries, the Group has set up an Employee Assistance Program to help employees. It allows employees and their families to benefit from a listening service and personalized advice provided by psychologists, legal experts, social workers and management coaches. Emilie Comminges, Manager of Employee Engagement for Pierre Fabre Australia, explains: “Managers and HR teams in subsidiaries are not always equipped to effectively support employees facing personal difficulties.Thanks to the Employee Assistance Program, they can benefit from help when they are going through a difficult time.” Nearly 70% of international employees are already covered by this program.
Historically, the Group has been very committed to encouraging its employees to take part in sports activities. Physical activities are proposed regularly at our sites and more than 1,600 employees in France were registered for a sports activity in 2022 through the Pierre Fabre Sports Association. A new “in-company sport and health” scheme was also set up in 2022 to help employees over 40 years of age resume physical activity.
Developing talent
The Group strives to offer numerous training opportunities, both remotely and face-to-face, to support the development of our employees and encourage skills development. For example, and in line with our objective of accelerating data analysis, over 6,500 hours of training have been given in this area since 2021. In total, we provided almost 250,000 hours of training in 2022 to reinforce technical and interpersonal skills.
For the first time in 2022, a Skill Week brought together employees in France and the subsidiaries for 190 workshops and webinars focusing on the key skills of our various professions: marketing, R&D, sales, etc. This event was well received by teams, with more than 5,500 participants worldwide. This event has been added to the year-long range of face-to-face and virtual courses. We offer several hundred training modules and one-hour Learning Moments open to all and delivered by internal or external experts. We have also introduced a new monthly event – the “1 month, 1 skill” initiative – which offers employees opportunities to meet inspiring speakers to develop, among other things, their interpersonal and communication skills.
And we have a Mission Opportunity program aimed at promoting career development and offering the possibility to learn more about another profession for up to one year, to ultimately acquire new skills and, in many cases, take on new responsibilities. Some 300 missions were carried out between 2019 and 2022.