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GOOD EMPLOYER

We are a stable organisation, which nevertheless boasts dynamic growth. Our success stems from the knowledge, skills and commitment of our employees. The employees are our principal asset, therefore our HR policy focuses on creating an attractive workplace for existing and future staff. Our goal is to create conditions fostering the development of our employees’ potential and their constant improvement.

We select our future employees very carefully, choosing those who are effective and highly motivated. The knowledge and experience of potential employees is important, but not necessarily decisive. By using advanced recruitment tools, such as the Assessment Center and competency tests, we search for people who have great potential and fit well with our team.

We seek to provide our existing employees with extensive growth and promotion opportunities. Many managers currently responsible for key aspects of the organisation are people who have worked their way up from low-level jobs.

COMPANY VALUES

By acting in compliance with our Four Values, we effectively pursue our mission, vision and strategic objectives. The Four Values we have identified as key to our development are as follows:

Competitive advantage

In our day-to-day operations, competitive advantage means constant pursuit of excellence through identification of areas that can be changed and improved.

Priorities

Priorities require a strong goal-oriented approach and consistency in their implementation.

Teamwork

Teamwork means good information flow, friendly relations in the workplace and mutual support.

Owner’s perspective

We understand the owner’s perspective as responsibility for the Company, commitment and a constant eye for the effects of our work.

DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING

One of the objectives of Cyfrowy Polsat’s HR policy is the development of individual employees’ potential. We invest in enhancing employees’ competencies as mastery of new skills by individual employees is the key driver behind the Company’s growth. Depending on the scope of duties, our employees may participate in various professional training courses and industry conferences. They may also obtain co-financing for university studies and specialist multi-stage courses and participate in training enhancing their personal skills, such as communication and team management skills. Additionally, we subsidise English courses organised for our staff in the workplace.

INITIATIVES SUPPORTING HR POLICY MANAGEMENT

In 2012, we engaged an external company to conduct a survey of commitment among our employees. The results of an anonymous questionnaire gave us a wide view of our organisation through the eyes of the workforce. Such a detailed analysis helps to precisely plan further HR measures designed to increase work satisfaction and commitment.

Last year also saw the implementation of a management by objectives system and a periodic assessment system, covering all employees of Cyfrowy Polsat. Under these systems, strategic goals of the organisation are cascaded into goals achievable by individual units and departments as well as tasks assigned to all employees. Thanks to such an approach, each staff member knows how to contribute towards the achievement of the goals set in the Company’s strategy. The systems also facilitate objective evaluation of the employees’ competencies used in their everyday work. The competencies subject to evaluation are those directly related to the Four Values.

INTERNSHIPS AND WORK PLACEMENTS

We help young and inexperienced persons find their way to future careers. In 2010, we launched the ’Summer Internship Programme’ designed for university students from all faculties. We address the programme to students who are in their third or later year of study and wish to raise their qualifications and gain experience over the summer. In addition to helping with current tasks, our interns can participate in projects under way.

A six-month-long internship programme called ’Digital Career’ has been launched for fourth- and fifth-year students and young graduates. Each intern will manage a project for which he or she will be fully responsible.

Tutors are appointed to help their younger colleagues to fulfil their tasks and gain practical knowledge and professional skills. Many of the interns taking part in the programme have joined our team as employees.

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS

We provide our staff with numerous social benefits, including non-refundable cash allowances and non-cash benefits, as well as repayable housing loans. Furthermore, our employees receive additional incentives, such as:

• Access to private healthcare through one of the largest Polish networks of private clinics,
• Comprehensive life and health group insurance for employees and their families,
• Co-financing of gym membership, attractively priced Cyfrowy Polsat TV and Internet packages and,
• Plus mobile telephony tariff plans.

Employment in the Cyfrowy Polsat Group by age and sex

SAFE WORKPLACE

As an employer, we are obliged, both legally and morally, to guarantee our staff safety, health protection and comfort in the workplace. For this reason, in line with our work safety policy, we seek to mitigate risks and prevent accidents and occupational diseases. We aim to create a friendly and efficient working. environment. We want to achieve this by creating a workplace with transparent procedures, fostering mutual respect, tolerance, cooperation and involvement.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

We treat all of our employees with due regard, irrespective of their sex or political and religious beliefs. Each is viewed as an individual deserving fair treatment and equal rights. Our workforce comprises disabled people, as well as people of different race or religion.

INTERNAL COMMUNICATION AND COOPERATION BETWEEN TEAMS

For internal communications, we mostly rely on the newsletter and Intranet, where issues of importance to our employees are discussed. They are used to convey information about current events at the company, key personnel changes, new initiatives and competitions with an educational or motivational agenda.

In 2011, we introduced a new form of communication – an annual strategic meeting between the Management Board and management personnel. In addition to presenting exhaustive information on the company’s strategy, its current standing and our competitors’ achievements, the purpose of the meeting is to commit our staff to implementing our strategy by enhancing internal communication between departments and raising the awareness of their role in achieving our common goals.

TEAM BUILDING

Our employees are offered numerous opportunities aimed at promoting team building, an active lifestyle and healthy competition, stimulating their interests and leisure activities, and strengthening their relations with the Company.

We provide our staff with opportunities to practise various sporting activities as this builds character, teaches self-discipline and persistence of goal-directed effort, and helps employees achieve personal fulfilment in non-business areas, thus reinforcing their sense of being part of the organisation. The ’POLSAT Biega’ team of runners was also active in the past year, participating in a number of running events, including the Wiązowski Half Marathon, Warsaw Half Marathon, and the 34th Warsaw Marathon, which they finished in a very good 19th place. In their preparations to represent the Group during marathons, the team is coached by a professional instructor.

Volleyball fans are able to pursue their favourite discipline during regular training sessions of the volleyball team, which qualified for the Play Volley corporate volleyball league in 2012. The 2012 season was very successful as it landed the team in the Play Volley first division. In addition to that, a football team was also assembled and began training in 2012.

In all our sporting efforts, we never forget about the youngest. Our corporate event calendar provides for special events for employees’ children, always involving great educational surprises. In 2012, our employees and their families were invited to take part in the Extreme Children’s Day (Extremalny Dzień Dziecka) event, an off-site open air event held at the Conference and Recreation Centre in Białobrzegi on the Zegrzyński Lake. Parents and their children spent family time in an active way, participating in various sports and other activities, including MMA training sessions, dance lessons, shooting range sessions, fitness games, water games, quad bike rides, and playground games.