Everyone at Bouygues is committed to making life better for as many people as possible. United by a distinctive culture, they deliver sustainable solutions to their customers, guided by a sense of responsibility and a commitment to the highest standards of quality. The Group endeavours to recognise and reward their contributions throughout their careers.
Founded in France in 1952, Bouygues is a diversified group with a global footprint. People are the Group’s greatest resource. It ensures the continuity of its strong and distinctive corporate culture – built on values such as respect and imparting expertise – by applying grassroots management principles and fostering a deep sense of team spirit.
Trust nurtures the Group’s entrepreneurial culture, which reflects its historical roots in buildings and civil works and permeates all of its business segments. As a result, its six business segments are allowed a great deal of freedom and operate with a high degree of independence. Driven by a shared sense of pride in belonging, Bouygues’ people are thus empowered to take action and make decisions locally, within the framework defined by the Group, which covers matters including ethics and human rights.
Working for the Bouygues group means meeting the essential needs of society – for housing, transportation, low-carbon energy, communication, news and entertainment.
Bouygues undertakes to provide its employees with a safe and respectful working environment in which to grow and thrive. It embraces diversity in its hiring processes, seeing it as a source of creativity and innovation, and takes a zero-tolerance approach to all forms of discrimination.
At a time of increasingly fast-paced change – digital, environmental and more – Bouygues invests heavily in training to support its people’s career development.
Bouygues’ remuneration policy is based on objective criteria and is designed to reward employees collectively and individually for their merits, commitment and performance. In 2022, for instance, Bouygues worked in conjunction with its business segments to mitigate the negative impacts of high inflation and the rising cost of living for its people – especially those in the lowest wage brackets. In addition to their salary, employees also receive a high-quality benefits package that includes personal risk coverage, supplementary healthcare coverage and a retirement savings scheme. Employees outside France receive the same benefits through the BYCare programmea.
Bouygues recognises the contribution made by its people by sharing the value it creates with them, such as through compulsory and voluntary profit-sharing agreements, and employee share ownership plans with an employer top-up contribution that is among the most generous in France. As a result, Bouygues is the leading CAC 40 company in terms of employee share ownership (see p.9).
High-quality labour relations are a particular strong point within the Group, founded on a constructive approach in which trade unions and other employee representative bodies make an active contribution. The European Works Council (EWC), which oversees information, dialogue and collective bargaining in Europeb, has 42 representatives from 20 countriesc.
The creation of local committees in some of the Group’s major countries of operationd (the United Kingdom and Switzerland) helps to strengthen the quality of dialogue with employee representatives. This will continue in the future with the setting-up of other such committees, for instance in Belgium.
In France, employee representation remains exceptionally high, with turnout of 77.2% in workplace elections, 372 Economic and Social Committees and 4,674 elected representatives for a total headcount of 89,500 employees.
