REA Group Ltd Annual Report 2021

REA Group Ltd | Annual Report 2021 12 THE HEART OF OUR BUSINESS Our people are at the heart of everything we do at REA. Our strategy and our purpose guide us, while our people, values and culture drive us. Our people and culture A great place to work REA prides itself on its workplace culture and in June 2021 the organisation was officially certified as a Great Place to Work. Following this, the Great Place to Work Best Workplaces List was announced in August 2021, with REA ranking fourth for companies of more than 1,000 employees. This placed the Group as the highest ranked ASX listed business within our category. Great Place to Work is known as the global authority on workplace culture and has been recognising the best places to work in Australia for the past 14 years. The certification and recognition are particularly meaningful as they’re not only an outcome of an in-depth review of our workplace policies and practices, but also the direct result of our people’s assessment of their experience at REA. REA is focused on retaining and attracting the brightest and best talent, and recognition such as our Great Place to Work ranking significantly supports this focus. We’re proud of our diverse and inclusive workplace and invest in programs and initiatives such as our Women in Tech program. This initiative continues to move the dial on improving the gender ratio in technology- based roles, growing from 20.4% female representation when it was first established, to 32% as of June 2021. REA also offers generous non-gender specific primary and secondary carer parental leave benefits and ensures there is a 50:50 gender balance in candidate offers for our award-winning graduate program. Our people are proud to work at REA, with 88% of our engagement survey participants responding favourably to this question when posed in our annual survey in October 2020. Overall employee engagement increased 6% to 84%. REA’s strategy and purpose are clearly communicated, with 92% of our people answering favourably to ‘I know how my work contributes to the goals of REA’. employee engagement 84% Year in review