Strategy and performance
Non-financial performanceEverywhere, Sodexo teams are fully mobilized to ensure the health and safety of all and pursue the corporate responsibility roadmap to contribute to a better future. Adapted to the challenges of today and tomorrow, Better Tomorrow 2025 comprises nine commitments. It drives the deployment of our corporate responsibility actions and measures their impact in the countries where we operate. In 2022, the teams fully supported the gradual resumption of activities on client sites and worked to achieve our objectives, notably in terms of natural resources preservation and inclusive and sustainable practices.
Disclosure and transparency
Sodexo is convinced that clear, comparable and accessible information on its financial and non-financial performance enables all of its stakeholders to make informed decisions. Since Sodexo’s creation, its financial, social and environmental performance has been publicly disclosed in the Universal Registration Document. To ensure transparency, the information and indicators have been audited by an independent third party for each of the past ten years.
01
IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF OUR EMPLOYEES, SAFELY
Evolution of workforce by geographic area
Asia-Pacific Latin America, Middle East and Africa, Europe and North America
- Fiscal 2018: 460,663
- Fiscal 2019: 470,237
- Fiscal 2020: 422,712
- Fiscal 2021: 412,088
- Fiscal 2022: 421,991
EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT RATE
- 80.1%
Fiscal 2020 - 78.3%(1)
Fiscal 2021 - 80%
2025 OBJECTIVE
- 79.1% employee retention rate
- 10.8% internal promotion rate for On-site managers
- 0.65 lost time injury rate
- 11.8 hours of training on average provided annually per employee
(1) Survey completed during Fiscal 2021.
02
ENSURE A DIVERSE WORKFORCE AND INCLUSIVE CULTURE THAT REFLECTS AND ENRICHES THE COMMUNITIES WE SERVE
PERCENTAGE OF OUR EMPLOYEES WHO WORK IN COUNTRIES WHICH HAVE GENDER BALANCE IN THEIR MANAGEMENT
- 57.0%
Fiscal 2021 - 57.7%
Fiscal 2022 - 100%
2025 OBJECTIVE
Workforce by gender and by category
(as of August 31, 2022)
Board of Directors (excl. employee representatives)
10 people, of which
- 40% men
- 60% women
Executive Committee (as of December 1, 2022)
11 people, of which
- 55% men
- 45% women
Group Senior Executives
184 people, of which
- 59% men
- 41% women
Total workforce
421,991 people, of which
- 46% men
- 54% women