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We aim to create an environment where all of our approximately 5,900 employees worldwide feel free to believe in more by helping SIG to explore new paths and create the future. We believe that by fostering an inclusive culture, supporting fair and equal opportunities for everyone and creating a working environment free of biases, we enable our employees to develop their full potential and to feel recognised and rewarded.

Talent development

SIG offers a wide range of careers, which are as individual as our people. We aim to match the skills of each employee to the opportunities within the Company and to continuously improve the way we address employee needs. We undertake to give every employee the chance to take part in internal or external training programmes, coaching and mentoring, plus on-the-job learning experiences. All up-skilling and development requirements are identified as part of the review and feedback process throughout the year. We identify talents that we need to foster as well as gaps in our succession pipeline that we need to fill. The idea behind our talent and succession management is to establish frameworks, processes, tools and skills to systematically and effectively identify, manage, actively develop and retain employees with high performance and potential. We adapt our talent advancement approach to specific career paths in order to prepare our talents for success in their targeted future role.

Our leadership programmes provide intensive training in the SIG Leadership Model so that transformational leadership becomes our common leadership philosophy – inspiring and empowering others to continuously learn, innovate and grow.

Adrianne Pelrussolo - Production Operator, Brazil (photo)

“My readiness to learn has always been encouraged and rewarded. That’s why I know I can keep on developing to become the first-ever female Specialized Production Operator at SIG.”

Adrianne Pelrussolo

Production Operator, Brazil

Employee satisfaction

By creating an engaging and energising working environment, we aim to enable our employees to unfold their full potential and to improve their workplace experience. By listening to them and responding to their views, we help to sustain high levels of job satisfaction.

To further foster engagement, we give our employees a voice in our biennial Employee Engagement Survey and in the implementation of concrete improvement measures in their area of responsibility, scope of influence and direct working and team environment. We also engage employees in the business through virtual questions to SIG, town-hall meetings and smaller group sessions with SIG C-Level executives. Our new Employee Value Proposition (EVP), ”Believe in More“, encourages our employees to create what’s next, inspire real change and make a positive impact. With the launch of the EVP, we have refreshed our career website and the look and feel of our social media channels. In 2021, we started an initiative to expand our ”We believe in more“ culture externally through social media postings by our employees who believe in our culture and who are brand ambassadors. We have launched LinkedIn Life on our SIG pages for all the regions where SIG operates, providing a glimpse into the lives of our employees and putting emphasis on our values and culture.

To ensure that our employees feel motivated and energised at work, we are implementing measures that support a healthy work-life balance. We offer employee benefits reflecting the regional, legal and cultural context. These include retirement benefits, health and life insurance, flexible work arrangements (e.g. part-time positions, working from home where possible) and parental benefits and leave. We remunerate employees in line with existing market practices. We benchmark our compensation approach against other companies to ensure that our compensation packages are competitive in each of our markets. The Company ensures that performance is recognised and rewarded in a fair and transparent manner.

Employment and labour rights

The SIG Code of Conduct addresses ethical and legal principles in general, whilst the SIG Business Ethics Code sets out more specific principles regarding employment and labour rights. Employees are encouraged to report any violation of the principles through the SIG Ethics and Compliance Hotline or any other available channel. As part of our Sedex (Supplier Ethical Data Exchange) membership, all our production sites undergo SMETA (Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit) four-pillar audits every two years. Moreover, we conduct assessments of our global policies and performance by EcoVadis.

Diversity, equity and inclusion

We believe that by fostering a more inclusive culture, empowering people with different abilities and supporting equal opportunities, we can add value to our business, improve the lives of our employees and make a significant contribution to society. We have established a diversity, equity and inclusion strategy with an overarching vision and set targets to improve our gender equality. One of our main priorities is to improve gender balance in our traditionally male-dominated industry by attracting and developing more women, particularly in leadership roles. We are doing this by cooperating with universities to attract female engineers, making our recruitment process more attractive to women and minorities, and defining requirements in our career development processes to help us select the best candidates from a diverse pool of internal and external applicants. In addition, we are creating a working environment that strengthens our ability to attract and retain women, for example by offering more flexible working options where feasible.

Our leaders have been trained to recognise their unconscious biases and to create relevant conditions to foster diversity and inclusion by actively driving change. The Company is fully committed to preventing discrimination on any grounds, and we have publicly committed to promoting diversity throughout our organisation as a signatory of the German Diversity Charter (Charta der Vielfalt).

In our last Employee Engagement Survey, the vast majority of respondents agreed that the Company is perceived as an open-minded organisation with a broad diversity of employees.