Nowy Styl Sustainability Report 2018-2019

Nowy Styl started from three chair models and seven em- ployees almost thirty years ago. Today, we are a leading manufacturer of office furniture in Europe. Our investments in technology and development, and the construction of modern plants and a research centre have helped us, of course. But Nowy Styl’s success has always been founded on people: ambitious, creative and committed. In this Section, we will talk about howwe make a team. We will count our numbers and see how diverse we are. As it was impossible for us to provide certain data for the recently acquired company Nowy Styl – Majencia SAS its statistics are not included in the tables in Subsections Our Employees, Recruitment and Work Rules. We will tell you howwe look for employees, and what their first days in the newworkplace look like. We will discuss the policies in place at Nowy Styl, our code of ethics, salaries, benefits and employee evaluation. We will also focus on safety, and opportunities for development in our company. Finally, we will tell you how we socialise, what we do after hours and how we look after our health at the company. workers – 3,414 people – are employed in Poland, of which 95% are in the Podkarpackie province, which is where our biggest plants are located. We are one of the major em- ployers in that region. GRI 102-8 A total of 4,254 people worked at the Nowy Styl companies covered by this report at the end of 2019. We hire most of our employees locally (in the region where our individual units operate). The majority of our 4.1 Our employees The number of Nowy Styl employees GRI 102-8 80% Nowy Styl Sp. z o.o. 6% Kusch+Co GmbH 100 persons 2% Nowy Styl GmbH 3% Sitag AG 9% Rohde & Grahl GmbH 50 Table of contents