We see meaningful work as everyone’s right and are taking big
steps
to equip our own people and others for the future.
Our people are our biggest asset and as our business transforms, we will accelerate growth and value-creation by creating a future-ready workforce. Building end-to-end skills will be our biggest differentiator and we are committed to upskilling 100% of our workforce on capabilities of the future.
Anuradha Razdan
Executive Director, Human ResourcesNo. 1 employer of choice
HUL continues to be ranked as the No. 1 Employer of Choice across sectors1 and a preferred employer for women2.
Driven by the ‘leaders build leaders’ philosophy; we have sustained an environment where people are empowered with big responsibilities early in their career and are able to constantly experiment with the right guidance and support.
Along with attracting the best talent, we have continued to invest on retaining and ring-fencing our top talent with differentiated careers and rewards. In a resurgent talent market, our voluntary attrition continued to be well below the FMCG industry benchmarks3.
- 1) Based on brand perception study by InsideIIM at target B-schools in Aug-Sep 2022.
- 2) Recognised by the Economic Times as one of the Best Organisations for Women.
- 3) Based on Aon India’s 28th Annual Salary Increase Survey 2022-23 Phase.
Alongside safety at work, supporting our people’s physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing continues to be an organisational priority.
This year, we have launched our new flagship whole-person health support programme, Healthier U across 30 HUL sites. The programme empowers employees to develop and sustain healthy lifestyle choices.
Our group of experienced and well-trained medical professionals ensure that our people have periodic health evaluations and hassle-free medical support and assistance.
We provide mental health support to our employees through our Mental Health Champions Initiative. As part of this initiative, over 900 employees have been trained to act as first responders to their colleagues suffering from mental health issues and guide them to appropriate resources.
As a result of our sustained efforts, we saw the reflections in our annual employee survey, UniVoice, with 89% office-based employees and 98% factory employees sharing their belief that the Company cares for their wellbeing.
8000+
Employees benefitted by
Healthier U initiative
900+
Mental health champions
We remain strongly committed to the safety of our people and contractors who work with us at our sites. Our safety and health-management system are based on the principle of plan, do, check, and act. Credible risks are evaluated at every stage of the process, and adequate actions are taken to mitigate the risks.
Safety incidents are reported, investigated and lessons learnt are communicated widely within the organisation. This is underpinned by continual improvement objectives and periodic reviews through our safety and health sub-committees, each headed by a Management Committee member.
A beacon of equity,
diversity, and inclusion at
the workplace
We continue to make progress in fostering equity, diversity &
inclusion within the organisation. We have invested in the
capabilities of our business leaders and HR practitioners to
support equity advocacy, diversity awareness and psychological
safety in their teams.
We want to be a workplace where everyone feels they belong and
can thrive. This means creating an inclusive culture free from
the barriers that limit people from reaching their true
potential.
Currently, many of our functions such as Marketing, R&D,
Legal, and Human Resources are gender balanced.
40%
Representation of women
at
managerial level
Persons with disabilities
In 2022, we built a base of 70+ People with Disabilities (PWD) talent with the right job mapping, and our ambition is to have 5% of our workforce comprising PWDs by 2025.
70+
People with disabilities part of our workforce
United with Pride
From peer-to-peer support by our proUd network to progressive and inclusive policies for everyone, we are building a more equitable organisation together.
500+
Allies in our ProUd network
Women on the frontline
As an organisation, we are convinced that driving equity, diversity and inclusion makes our business stronger. We are taking long strides in better representation of women in our frontline and outer core.
Project Ahilya
Through our Ahilya initiative, we aim to break stereotypes and create equal opportunities for women to join our frontline General Trade salesforce. The initiative is gaining momentum across the country with an ambition to build a frontline salesforce that is truly diverse and inclusive.
1,000+
Ahilyas in our network
Project Samavesh
Our Samavesh initiative aims to bring in more female talent
on the shopfloor and build a conducive work culture for them
to thrive.
A progressive work culture and systemic
investments on infrastructure such as unlocking 3-shift
working, gender-sensitisation workshops and facilities such
as hostels, creche, safe, and hygienic washrooms, are
enabling our journey to build a truly inclusive frontline in
our factories. By 2025, we aim to have 1,500 women on our
shopfloor.
850+ women
Working across our factories
Future of work
At HUL, we are transforming how we work by introducing more flexible and agile working that unlocks capacity and help individuals find a meaningful and balanced way of working.
Our hybrid ways of working are anchored around the employee context and have flexibility at heart. To have access to diverse skills and talent pools with speed, we are experimenting with new employment models such as Open2U – for ready access to differentiated skills through a network of 300+ expert gig-workers and U-Work – to enable our employees to work on assignments flexibly through a ‘dip-in-dip-out’ approach.
93%
Engagement levels across our offices and factories