01 04.3 Promoting employee health and wellbeing in a hybrid work environment continued Introduction 02 Sustainable investing 03 Looking beyond the pandemic Listening to and engaging our employees Active stewardship Improving workplace culture is a smart, long-term Our vision is to be the preferred inclusive home for our investment in employees. As new generations enter industry’s best talent. We rolled out a range of cross- 04 the workforce, employee expectations around topics functional transformation projects to further strengthen AllianzGI as a sustainable business such as wellbeing, flexible working and I&D are our inclusive culture and work environment in 2021. 04.1 B uilding our approach to continuously changing. Employee feedback, including through our annual sustainable investing The Covid-19 pandemic has been devastating over the Allianz Engagement Survey, provides the most 04.2 Developing a shared vision for past two years. While the dangers of falling ill were at important input as we continuously seek to become inclusion and diversity 04.3 Promoting employee health the forefront of people’s minds, the knock-on impacts a better place to work. While we are pleased that and wellbeing in a hybrid such as on mental wellbeing were also felt acutely. the 2021 survey showed positive developments on work environment Positive learnings from the pandemic include extending engagement (+7%), and IMIX (+6%), it highlighted 04.4 Business conduct and our focus beyond how work should be done to look at areas for improvement such as the expectation of operational risk management what is needed for people to be happy and productive. more innovation and change, continuing to identify 04.5 Managing the environmental That is why, alongside our parent company Allianz, we and resolve complexity drivers, and creating even impact of our operations have launched Ways of Working (WOW) – a global more cross-functional collaboration and development 04.6 Corporate citizenship framework designed to capture the lessons learned opportunities for employees. during the pandemic as well as to look ahead to ensure In 2021, a total of 108 cross-functional collaboration 05 that Allianz possesses the characteristics that will be Appendix needed for future growth. opportunities were posted on our Opportunity Platform, allowing employees to collaborate and contribute with In the 2021 Allianz Engagement Survey teams across functional and geographical borders. 87% In 2022, we will identify barriers and strengthen our concept for employees to easily explore and of AllianzGI employees agree that our take on opportunities that contribute to their career company communicated clear policies and development. Through our I&D action plan, we continue guidelines to assist employees during the to increase the focus on equal opportunities for minority pandemic and that our company is responding groups. We will also begin complementing the annual appropriately to the Covid-19 crisis. Allianz Engagement Survey with quarterly pulse surveys, covering topics such as new ways of working, health and team spirit. These insights will help steer our efforts towards becoming an even better place to work.