Company: WTFCN
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-031671
Chunk: 32

Company: WINTRUST FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 32
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 • Seek opportunities to expand recycling programs throughout our locations, in addition to existing paper recycling and shred services in all of our locations. • Encourage conservation and recycling in the communities we serve via paperless statements and other electronic deliveries to our customers, as well as document imaging of records in lieu of paper storage. • Improve cleaning protocols, procedures and cleaning solutions in an effort, each day, to keep work spaces and surfaces clean. • Efforts to reduce our carbon footprint and energy consumption, as measured for calendar year 2024 over 2023, have had favorable results with a slightly larger footprint. We have reduced KWH consumption in our property portfolio and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Employee Engagement and Welfare We believe that Wintrust has been recognized as a top workplace because of the commitment we have made to our employees and their families, as further described below: • Our highly desirable health care plans reflect a sincere investment in our colleagues’ physical, emotional and financial well-being. Offering premium coverage through our health insurance provider, our employees are afforded a large network of doctors and on average, Wintrust pays approximately 80% of monthly medical premiums for employees enrolled. • Other benefits cover a wide range of employer-sponsored and voluntary offerings, that include short-and long-term disability insurance, paid parental leave, travel and adoption assistance, tuition reimbursement, medical and dependent care pre-tax savings/spending accounts, discounted employee stock purchase plan, retirement benefits, life insurance, accident, critical illness, prepaid legal, hospital indemnity and various banking benefits offered through deposits and loan products. • Continued to drive employee health and well-being engagement by introducing a Wellness Microsite sharing resources, tools and events available for team members and their families. Supported engagement through various initiatives to include onsite biometric wellness screening and flu shot clinics, virtual wellness sessions offered throughout the year on education addressing a variety of topics including personal health and well-being, anxiety, depression, resiliency for working parents, nutrition, ergonomics and virtual cooking classes. • Continued support for discounted childcare benefits for employees. • Offered employee assistance program resources designed to assist employees and their families with various challenges related to overall wellness and the demands of balancing work and family life, financial well-being, counseling support, crisis care, stress management and mental health issues. • Our compensation programs support a pay-for-performance philosophy by providing holistic competitive base salaries and incentives that allow us to be an employer of choice in the markets in which we compete for talent while supporting equitable and fair treatment of our employees. • We provide short-term and long