Provide our employees with a fulfilling and satisfying work environment

Discover how the Societe Generale Real Estate Division is contributing, around the world, to well-being and quality of life at work.

The Societe Generale Real Estate Division is involved in the various aspects of CSR in order to contribute to the Group’s sustainability challenges.  As well as reducing carbon emissions associated with the energy consumed in our buildings, actions are also deployed to reduce waste, boost the circular economy, ensure we use water sensibly, etc.

Enhancing staff well-being 

Providing teams with a good quality of life at work is an essential factor for fostering staff commitment within the Group and improving performance. The Responsible Employer strategy is one of the pillars of the Societe Generale’s CSR strategy. It focusses on three ambitions, one of which is to offer a fulfilling and effective working environment, by monitoring the quality of life at work and ensuring it respects all areas of people’s lives.  

The real estate division makes a significant contribution to improving employees’ working conditions. By providing workspaces that evolve in line with staff members’ new uses and needs, it is participating in Societe Generale’s desire to work to ensure a good work-life balance. From sport to nature, along with comfort and relaxation, we focus on a number of Societe Generale buildings around the world designed with their occupants’ well-being in mind.

Sport

The Campus 6.3 site in Bucharest has been designed to foster a healthy lifestyle. Indeed, staff can train in a gym, play table tennis on the rooftop or run on Romania’s first rooftop running track. 280 metres long, this track is located on the roof of the Campus 6.2 and Campus 6.3 buildings some 42 metres above the ground. 

Furthermore, to encourage staff to do sport during the workday, many Societe Generale sites have showers, including Paris central buildings, 3 Pacific Place in Hong Kong and the Arsenal building in Luxembourg.

Outdoor areas and activities

In Madagascar, Societe Generale wanted to provide a healthy, bright and modern environment. The teams now have a garden and a small vegetable patch allowing them to lunch onsite and to relax on deckchairs. A rooftop area has also been created to host major events. 

Similarly, in the Dunes in Fontenay-sous-Bois (France), a 100 m² vegetable garden has been entrusted to a French collective’s green fingers. Urban gardening helps bring staff who are nature enthusiasts together around a shared and non-work-related project. This activity offers many benefits, such as relaxation and calm. This unifying action is in line with the Group’s CSR commitment and contributes to staff well-being. A second vegetable garden is located on the roofs of the Basalte building in La Défense.

At the Sakura complex in Fontenay-sous-Bois (France), a rooftop terrace has been converted in order to provide staff with an open-air workspace and a relaxation area. 

Comfortable offices

In Hong Kong, the project to convert the Asian headquarters at 3 Pacific Place aimed to provide staff with a pleasant and dynamic workplace. Height-adjustable desks have thus been deployed for all the teams and the building has been equipped with a relaxation room and zen bubbles. 

Support for young mothers

Lastly, in the Paris central buildings, two breastfeeding rooms were created within the medical department in 2023. This project was a direct extension of the Quality of Life and Working Conditions agreement signed at the end of 2022 within Societe Generale France, in which the importance of a good work-life balance is reaffirmed. This is also the case at Societe Generale Madagascar, which has a breastfeeding room for young mothers to help them gradually return to work after giving birth. 

A genuine lever of satisfaction, a good quality of life at work is essential to ensure the performance and commitment of staff. These actions illustrate Societe Generale’s desire to provide healthy workplaces designed to incorporate sport and nature and offering employees comfort and well-being.