Aracting, enabling & engaging a diverse workforce With a rich legacy more than a century strong, our shared passion and purpose motivates us to innovate and find solutions to the world’s toughest preservation challenges. We believe that aracting, enabling and engaging a diverse workforce is crucial to our success. By fostering an inclusive culture and hiring team members from a range of backgrounds and experiences, we are beer able to tackle the complex and varied challenges facing the world today. Aracting & developing talent As a young and dynamic business operating in a competitive industry, it is essential to prioritize the araction and retention of top talent. By creating a unique and distinct business culture led by recognized leaders in the chemicals industry, we can oer our employees the opportunity to shape and grow with the company. This makes us an aractive employer for new hires and emphasizes the importance of engaging with and developing our current team members. By valuing our workforce and providing meaningful work, we are building a strong and sustainable business. For our new hires and established workforce, we have both employee training and individual employee development plans. On an annual basis, all sta is required to complete compliance training that includes instruction on our Code of Conduct. Additionally, all employees have access to LinkedIn Learning to develop specific skills based on their jobs and interests. Our talent araction eorts in 2022 were primarily led by individual sites and regions. This included regional partnerships with organizations focusing on women in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and early careers apprenticeship programs. In 2023, we will focus on ensuring that our talent araction processes are designed to include diverse slate hiring pools and target specific communities in line with our goal to build a workforce that is more diverse in gender, race, background and skillsets. Diversity, equity & inclusion Having a more diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce is a critical component of our global employee strategy. Diversity is important for beer decision-making, higher quality ideas and innovation. We are commied to creating a workplace where all employees can bring their full selves to work every day, participate authentically and are valued for their unique talents and perspectives.
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