CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY The breakdown of employees by region is as follows: REGISTERED WORKFORCE (NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES) AT DECEMBER 31, NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 2017 2016 Total workforce 27,024 26,706 (27,273)* BY REGION Europe 16,052 16,165 North America 8,233 7,805 Asia-Pacific 2,739 2,736 (3,303)* * As an exception, figures including the entities sold in December 2017. Lastly, at December 31, 2017, the Rexel Group had Total workforce by region – 2016 5,002 managers (defined as overseeing at least Asia-Pacific one employee or subject to local definition such 2,736 as having management-levelstatus in certain countries), or 18.5% of the total workforce compared to 18% in 2016. Europe North America7,805 Breakdown of permanent employees by age 4 16,165 (workforce on permanent contract) At December 31, 2017, the average age of the Rexel Group employees was 43.2 years, this average was of 43.1 years at December 31, 2016. Most employees are over 50 years of age (8,366 Total workforce by region – 2017 persons) fol lowed by those between 40 and Asia-Pacific 50 years of age (7,207 persons). 2,739 Senior employees (defined as being over 50) accounted for 31% of the totalworkforce with employees under 30 making up 16.6%. North America The Rexel Group organizes employee data into the Europe 8,233 16,052 following regions for analysis: • North America: Canada and the USA; • Asia-Pacific: Australia, China, India, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia and the UAE; • Europe: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Breakdown of employees by type of contract and Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Slovenia, level Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. The Rexel Group has few fixed-term or temporary employees. Hiring employees under these types of Breakdown of permanent employees by age contracts is mainly to meet specific needs. Europe In 2017, the average monthly number of ful l-time North America equivalent temporary employees was 947.7, or 3.5% Asia-Pacific of the total average monthly workforce (3.1% in Rexel Group 2016). 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% No. of employees less than 30 years old At December 31, 2017, there were 26,440 permanent No. of employees between 30 and 40 years old employees, and 584 fixed-term employees (2.2% of No. of employees between 40 and 50 years old No. of employees over 50 years old the workforce compared to 1.8% in 2016). REXEL 2017 – REGISTRATION DOCUMENT 165