PEOPLE AND COMMUNITY

We strive hard to create a workplace that supports the values of our committed and passionate employees.

Our employee recognition initiative, Shout!, gained further traction in its second year. It is proving to be a powerful way for team members to recognise the real difference made by individuals across the business. We received 2540 nominations during the year, leading to specific recognition of 120 employees for their individual contribution and effort.

We continue to instil our performance management framework, Achieve, with a particular focus this year on enhancing managers' coaching skills. Our first in-house employee engagement survey, Express, achieved a high 74 per cent participation rate among permanent staff.

We successfully recruited for our start-up channel, ONE, providing new opportunities for many existing Network employees. We concluded months of negotiations by certifying a new Enterprise Agreement determining the terms and conditions of employment for 50 per cent of Network Ten's employees.

In the area of the environment and sustainability, employee power is also very much driving progress towards our goal of 30 per cent reduction of emissions from our 2007/08 levels by 2020. At June 30 we had achieved a 10 per cent reduction in carbon emissions and our people keep the foot firmly on the pedal to achieve lasting change. For details of our approach to achieving our sustainability targets, please refer to page 20 of this Annual Review.

We continue to participate in a meaningful and targeted way with the not-for-profit sector and factor the views of our employees into the choice of our national support causes. When the results of Network Ten's national employee community survey revealed passionate support for a community partner in the mental health field, youth mental health initiative Headspace seemed like a natural fit. Headspace joins the Cancer Council, the Australian Conservation Foundation and CARE Australia as a national support cause and full details of the value being delivered through our extensive community program can be found on page 22.

In a demanding year, we have relied more than ever on the expertise, vigour, enterprise and resilience of our superb team - and I congratulate them on all that has been achieved.

Grant Blackley
Chief Executive Officer
- Network Ten

Source:
TEN: OzTAM Wks 7-35 2009 (excl Easter). Metro commercial prime time (18:00-22:30, Sun-Sat) / daytime (09:00-18:00, Mon-Fri) share, excluding digital terrestrial channels. Year-on-year comparisons Wks 7-35 2008 v 2009 excluding Easter and Olympics.

ONE: OzTAM 5-city metro 12 Apr-6 Sept 2009. All simulcast programming (TEN and ONE) is reported solely as a combined number shown in TEN's viewing figures. There is no separate ratings data available for ONE when programming is simulcast with TEN.

Digital media data - Nielsen NetRatings; video views based on Jan-Aug 2008 v Jan-Aug 2009