We use global emails; webcasts; intranet resources like video, blogs, forums, and image libraries; competitions, and more, to share news and information across the group, from financial performance data to our strategy and vision and company history. Our comprehensive corporate responsibility section on RE World includes Hot Topics in CR; our environmental, community, and health and safety sites; policy documents; information on the UN Global Compact; and CR as a Sales Tool, information that can be used as a differentiator when completing requests for information or proposals.
We actively seek two-way communication through town hall meetings, ask the leader opportunities – like the Ask the Chairman feature of the weekly Reed Exhibitions electronic staff newsletter – and by fostering an open door ethos in our management training. LexisNexis CEO, Andy Prozes, holds quarterly conference calls for all employees, during which he gives a business update and answers questions; recordings and transcripts are available to employees on the intranet.
The CR team make regular presentations for the benefit of staff, and, in 2008, addressed employee groups in, among other locations, China, Germany, Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States.
To enhance Boundarylessness, our new Job Board allows staff to view and apply for any available RE job around the world. As a measure of staff mobility, in 2008, internal candidates filled 40% of RE job openings.