Working conditions

PZU Group companies have in force rules and regulations pertaining to bonuses and bonuses and commissions. The high quality of the work done by PZU Group employees is therefore additionally rewarded.

The basis for determining an employee’s base salary is the value of the job position in question, the competences held by an employee and his or her job assessment.

The remuneration policy was adopted in PZU and PZU Życie in 2016. Above all, the purpose of this document is to ensure that our employee compensation systems are in line with the company’s risk profile, that we achieve our intended business result and that we attain our business objectives within the framework of the risk limits prescribed by the Management Boards. It is also important to motivate employees to enhance their work efficiency constantly and ramp up their commitment while simultaneously linking their pay to the performance of the companies, cells or organizational units in which they are employed.

PZU and PZU Życie employees are covered by collective agreements, including the Company Pension Agreements. Pekao Group companies have pay-related policies related to their size and distinct business, the remuneration rules are laid down, among others, in the collective bargaining agreements. Each one of the companies in the Alior Bank Group has implemented a remuneration policy. The same applies to the PZU Zdrowie Group. In Armatura Kraków, general employee remuneration principles have been implemented.

BEST PRACTICE

PZU Cash

CASH is a new, innovative financial employee benefit platform, prepared by PZU in cooperation with Alior Bank and Bancovo. The platform has been available to over 10 thousand PZU Group employees since October 2019. In the next months, the plan is to make the platform available to further organizations who want to offer to their employees the exceptional benefit in the form of easily available low-interest loans. Each employer who joins the platform will have the possibility of offering the new type of benefit to their employees. Every employee who is bound to his/her employer through an employment contract will have the option of applying for a unique loan.

The main advantages of CASH include:

• attractively priced offer delivered by a reliable partner – Alior Bank;

• the loan can be used for any purpose – from renovation of an apartment, through holiday, school materials to purchase of a car or satisfying any current need;

• the process is fully online – from completion of the application to the signing of the agreement by entering in the online Cash platform the code received by a text message, which is convenient for the user;

• installments are repaid directly from the salary, relieving the employee from the need to remember about them.

The CASH platform may become a new line of business for PZU and a unique win-win solution for employers and borrowers. 

Building commitment – workshops with employees

In February 2019, PZU announced the results of an employee commitment study, which was conducted in 2018 and covered 73% of employees. The turnout in the next employee commitment study, conducted in December 2019, reached a record level of as much as 84%. This is a unique turnout on the Polish market and among large employers.

The outcome of the study also demonstrated a favorable trend in building commitment among PZU Group employees. The commitment rate in 2019 was 51%, it was above the average for Poland, increased 11 percentage points year over year and was much closer to the strategic ambition level defined for 2020 (55%).

The large turnout will help provide a more reliable diagnosis of how employees perceive the organization, which will enable the development and implementation of effective measures aimed at building employee commitment.

9,129 PZU employees took part in the survey in 2019. According to most respondents, cooperation within the organization deserves the highest marks. As many as 81% of respondents stated that their colleagues share their knowledge and experience, and 77% claimed that they were able to collaborate within their team to achieve common goals. Also, 71% of respondents perceive PZU as a socially and environmentally responsible company.

During meetings held after the survey, employees also often talked about minor changes in the organization of work and communication – and these changes are made on an ongoing basis. The following initiatives may serve as an example of this:

• #terazTY development bomb – an initiative created in the area of sales; during “bomb” workshops, employees exchanged their knowledge and practice, were trained in products, processes and managerial and coaching skills. They also learned about design thinking technique and how to take care of mental hygiene – parts of the workshops were run by employees from outside the sales department, which contributed to cooperation between areas;
• volunteerism as a way of integration – employees of one of the departments independently planned and ran a campaign which resulted in creating a comfortable place for children from a selected school to spend their time after classes in a creative environment filled with educational aids.

PZU. A job with a purpose.

This practice refers to what is an increasingly discussed topic: the need to search for a meaning at work. We decided to address this need in the PZU Group fall campaign addressed to professionals.

As part of the preparations, we intended to create image videos in which PZU employees would tell us about what is important to them in their daily work. For this purpose:

• we invited all PZU employees to apply to sign up for participation in the video;
• we received more than 130 applications from which, based on the answers, we selected nearly 50 individuals;
• we invited the selected persons to shoot a video and a photo session in a professional film studio;
• 3 videos were created:
• dedicated to employees of the PZU Group Divisions/Branches,
• dedicated to IT staff,
• general, addressed to all professionals;
• the videos were uploaded to the dedicated campaign website: https://www.pzu.pl/takapracamasens
• the website was the focal point of the online campaign in which we used, among others, Facebook, Programmatic, Instagram, AdWords, pracuj.pl and OLX.

Key figures:

• the campaign lasted from 18 November to 20 December 2019;
• we had over 34 thousand views of the dedicated website and almost 30 thousand unique users;
• the initiative prompting employee commitment to activities in the area of the employer’s brand also received some favorable feedback from the employees. The individuals who participated in the shooting of the video and the photo session became internal brand ambassadors. Also, a series of interviews with campaign heroes who represent PZU on posters appeared on pzu24.  

LINK with us – the practice of building candidate experience

This practice is a response to the need to turn LINK4 into an employer of choice, outstanding in terms of its approach to candidates. LINK4 was prompted to implement this practice by the desire to reduce voluntary employee turnover and the market situation which puts candidates in the center of employers’ attention.

The following activities were carried out as part of this activity:

• employee wanted – employees jointly developed the profile of a candidate best aligned with the company’s organizational culture;
• ads: an audition was carried out. Employees who wished to become the face of LINK4 were selected for the photo session. The content of ads was also modified in accordance with the rules of simple language;
• recruitment meeting: the selection is made by the superior. Then the selected persons are invited to meetings;
• satisfaction survey: we send out a satisfaction survey within three to five days after announcing the decision. The candidate assesses the whole recruitment process, the recruiter and the company’s offer. The candidate also has the opportunity to share his/her own comments underneath open-ended questions. The results are analyzed and reported. Currently, the NPS on the recruitment process is 90.9%;
• welcome on board: new employees start their adventure with LINK4 from Welcome Day, are greeted by the CEO and their superiors;
• satisfaction survey: conducted three months after the employment start date to verify the level of satisfaction with the employee onboarding process on an ongoing basis.

Key figures:

• employee referrals up by approx. 60%;
• inflow of spontaneous applications up by 17%;
• the level of satisfaction with the conduct of the recruitment process increased from less than 80% (in Q4 2017) to 90.9% (at the end of 2019). 

Your reward

GREAT PLACE TO WORK

For the second time, LINK4 was among the recipients of the Great Place to Work title. This title is awarded to companies that successfully build and develop exceptional relationships with their employees. They are based on trust, understood as reliability of managerial staff and respect and fairness shown to employees. The study scrutinizes HR practices and the level of commitment and cooperation within teams. 

Alior Bank employee satisfaction study using the NPS method

This study is carried out regularly. It permits the company to monitor the level of satisfaction/loyalty of bank employees over time and observe the impact of pending activities on their perception. Alior Bank is aware that without committed and satisfied employees there will be no satisfied clients, which is why the bank studies the level of internal cooperation between its teams with a view to improving and perfecting it constantly. During these internal studies, every employee has the opportunity to share his or her opinion about cooperation with other units and point out their strengths and weaknesses. The outcomes of the study are regularly communicated to the surveyed units in the form of presentations and serve as a valuable source of knowledge for their directors about the strengths and weaknesses of their department/team, contributing to the development of initiatives aimed at improving internal cooperation. The effectiveness of these actions is evidenced by the fact that the vast majority of the surveyed business units improve the results obtained in subsequent editions of the study. 

Inspiration Council

The Inspiration Council is an initiative established in the Claims and Benefits Handling and Remote Channels Division at the end of 2018. The Council members include invited employees with outstanding knowledge, competences, creativity and engagement – experts, leaders and masters of PSK (Claims Communication Platform). The Inspiration Council is a place where employees put forward solutions facilitating their daily work. The ideas are analyzed by and the best of them are implemented with the support of head office departments.

Council members were divided into four areas. Each of them consists of six groups of 15-20 people each, roughly 400 in total. The groups drew issues and had to develop solutions. They worked on the solutions for about 2 months. After that, a national meeting was held with three participants from each group attending. The participants of the meeting presented their solutions and selected the most interesting ones. The best solutions were further analyzed and implemented.

A total of 300 team meetings and 4 national conventions were held in 2019. During that period they worked on 24 areas, pitching more than 500 ideas and implementing 40 of them. Others are still under analysis or were rejected for various reasons.

The Inspiration Council offers its participants an opportunity to become involved in the creation of solutions that will determine the future processes and make daily work more efficient. It also allows the employees to develop and learn more about their organization.

The ideas proposed as part of the Inspiration Council included, among others: MegaWEB (joint knowledge database for the whole division), client search using phone numbers, or redirection of some of the telephone notifications to the web platform.

The employees reported that they appreciated the opportunity to grow and influence the changes and the engagement in the improvement of PZU.