MERLIN Properties Annual Report 2019 / English

| 87 MERLIN is aware that its professionals value being part of an organisation that knows its activities are conducted in an environment that is not always favourable and uses available tools and resources to help to improve it. In this context, the Company has consolidated programmes to boost the social involvement of MERLIN and its employees. Through these actions, MERLIN seeks to promote professional involvement in its local communities, encouraging community development and supporting underprivileged people. The Company considers the promotion of employee´s health and well-being in the workplace to be particularly significant. Improvements in this area also clearly boost productivity and reduce sick leave. As part of our Occupational Risk Prevention activities, MERLIN performs an annual workstation evaluation covering aspects such as the noise level, lighting and humidity. The appropriate measures can then be adopted, if necessary, to comply with applicable legislation. Furthermore, during 2019, MERLIN also replaced conventional laptop computers with surface laptops, lighter models which are more convenient for employees while outside MERLIN’s offices. Safe, healthy work environment The Company’s community engagement MERLIN’S CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY PLAN. 61 Foundations benefited 13% Employees involved > 410 k€ In donations Through the CSR Plan, as a framework for the Company to earmark a percentage of its income (up to an overall maximum of 0.1% of gross income for the year) to social projects or programmes, MERLIN donated close to €265,642. Under the CSR Plan, MERLIN also matches contributions to social projects or programmes made by employees, executives or directors. Contributions thanks to this second aspect of the Plan, which may be financial or in the form of volunteering, totalled around €150,000. As a result of both direct donations and employees donates duplication, MERLIN has helped 61 different foundations. VOLUNTARY TRAINING BY MERLIN’S PROFESSIONALS 96 hours Eighteen MERLIN professionals have, for the third year in a row, voluntarily delivered training as part of the university degree “Intensificación en Planificación y Gestión Inmobiliaria” of the Quantity Surveyor’s School of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, donating the associated course fees to academic grants for the course’s best students.