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Life @Legrand
Working at Legrand means joining thousands of open-minded and creative talented people. It means experiencing simplicity, empathy and transparency every day, which characterise the company’s relations. It also means safety, well-being and satisfaction at work. Finally, it means being an ambassador for the Group and emobodying Legrand’s purpose throughout the world: improving lives!
INTERNAL NETWORKS AND COMMUNITIES
Elle@legrand, the international network that promotes diversity within legrand
Sponsored by General Management and made up of women and men who are passionate about the importance of diversity within the company at all levels, the purpose of this international network created in 2013 is to enable career development for women, raise awareness and train employees about gender equality and make sure everyone’s voice is heard through working groups focusing on specific subjects
The #Legrandrainbow network: a more inclusive company is a more efficient company.
As homophobia in the workplace is still a taboo subject, the Legrand Rainbow network was created in 2019 by employees themselves. Its aim is to promote an inclusive corporate culture where everyone has the possibility of expressing themselves and their diversity within the Group, and to be themselves at work as part of the LGBT+ community.
"Black professional network": promoting equal opportunities in the group
Established in July 2020, the “Black Professional Network” supports African-American employees at Legrand North & Central America. Its mission is to improve the lives of its members by promoting equal opportunities in the company and success on a personal level, with a mentoring system, awareness campaigns and support for career development.
*North and Central America = Amérique du nord et Amérique centrale
LIVING TOGETHER
Working at Legrand means making living well together a reality
Language cafés, getting to know each other throughout the world
To celebrate cultural diversity and international dialogue, Group employees have organised several “Language Cafés”. These involve 30 minutes of remote conversations to discover a new language over tea or coffee.
A friendly atmosphere and a real moment of togetherness during which employees in over 30 countries got together to learn English, French, Spanish, Arabic or Italian.
Diwali, the festival of lights: franco-indian friendship celebrated at legrand headquarters
To celebrate Diwali, Indian students completing an internship at Legrand wanted to share this traditional Indian festival with their colleagues at Group head office in Limoges. The Indian festival of light, which is also a celebration of openness and discovering others, came to light up the Legrand headquarters.
Covid solidarity, all the group’s international initiatives grouped in a video
During the COVID-19 health crisis, the Legrand community rallied around the hashtag #legrandsolidarity to share the various solidarity and support initiatives which were implemented within the Group in France and abroad. It reflected the creativity and capacity to adapt when resuming business on-site and remotely, to be celebrated together and on video.
The legrand foundation: generating independence
The Legrand Foundation, whose purpose is ‘Generating Independence’, was launched in March 2014, with the aim of combating exclusion related to a loss of independence and electricity poverty, and promoting equal employment opportunities in the electrical industry. It was the first foundation created under the aegis of the FACE foundation, a French non-profit anti-exclusion organisation. It is at the heart of Legrand’s social responsibility.
Habitat for humanity
Legrand LNA’s “Better Communities” programme focuses on 3 areas to organise volunteering, donations and partnerships:
Better Homes : building and improving homes for those in need,
Better Schools : improving the performance of learning spaces and the students who use them,
Better Recovery : providing donations or volunteering assistance to organisations dedicated to aid and reconstruction after a national or natural disaster
Welcome days: making integration an event
Joining Legrand means joining a Group that promotes sharing experiences, mutual enrichment between the generations, and which does everything it can to make its new employees feel welcome.
Welcome Days are organised throughout the year, an initiative launched in France and rolled out abroad in the form of onboarding sessions for new employees who join Legrand. They provide information about the Group, its careers and perspectives, through employee testimonies.
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