As a global company, our success is dependent on the insights of a diverse workforce. A diverse organization keeps us curious and helps us meet the needs of our customers. That’s why we are taking diversity and inclusion to the top of our agenda and we are challenging ourselves to embed this priority deep into our organization.
We measure workforce diversity primarily with a focus on gender. The gender balance remained unchanged in 2019, with female representation of 34 percent. This figure was 25 percent at senior levels (tiers 1-3). Female representation among top managers is on par with the industry benchmark, but we need to work harder to raise gender diversity in other tiers.
We are also working to raise awareness of the importance of equal pay for equal work. Meeting the UK requirement to monitor pay gaps between men and women is helping us to chart our impacts.
We know we have more work to do. We’ll be launching an updated and sharpened diversity strategy with an action plan for the strategy period. Anti-bias and diversity leadership training is ongoing at all levels of the organization. These actions will lay the groundwork for improving diversity further in terms of gender and culture in 2020.
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Gender Pay equality - In line with the legal requirement by the UK Government, we carry out Gender Pay Reporting (Gender Pay Gap Information) every year.