Bringing Out the Best in Our People
People are central to our business, be it our employees, customers, or the communities where we live and work. In 2021, we achieved the following things:
- Women made-up the following proportion of our global employee base: 45% Entry Level, 38% Manager, 29% Senior Manager, 26% Director, 27% Vice President and 18% Executive Team
- We hired 21 employees as part of our Emerging Talent early career programme, 57% of hires were women or people of colour
- Our 2021 global Director and above employee base was 26% female, and in the US our Director and above employee base included 20% people of colour
- In the US, our employee base was 70% white, 6% Asian, 10% Black or African American, 10% Hispanic or Latino
- We established 6 active ERGs in 2021, increasing to 7 in Q1 2022. Employee participation doubled in 2021 to >10% employee population
- We achieved above average participation of 82% in our employment engagement survey, exceeding our participation target of 75%
Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council
We’re committed to promoting a diverse, inclusive, and respectful culture to bring out the very best in our global workforce and encourage creativity to flourish.
Employee Engagement
Building and maintaining an engaged workforce is a major priority for us. This means seeking, listening to, and acting on employee feedback, and giving our people the opportunity to volunteer in local communities individually or as part of a team.
Talent Management
In our efforts to continually improve how we source and look after our talented workforce, we updated our recruitment and talent retention strategy in 2021 by building a centrally managed talent acquisition plan focused on delivering inclusive recruiting success globally. As a result, in 2021, 53% of global hires were female or people of colour. We also launched an automated Talent Review process to map internal succession plans. This included a robust toolkit, training, and education for HR and people managers to ensure that our talented, diverse workforce can successfully progress their careers at Dentsply Sirona.
Employee Health and Well-Being
We are committed to ensuring that our own employees have access to the highest quality dental treatment. By the end of Q2 2022, all our employees had access to market competitive dental benefits, either through Companyprovided or a governmental statutory programme, and in 2021 nearly 3,000 employees took advantage of these services. In the US and Canada, we also provide our employees and their immediate family with a SureSmile Discount Policy which offers a reimbursement of up to US$1,500 toward the cost of SureSmile clear aligners.
Last year we launched our Global Employee Assistance Programme (“EAP”), a globally accessible and free wellbeing resource for all our employees and their families through the provider Workplace Options. Workplace Options is staffed by professionals who are completely independent from Dentsply Sirona, making it a confidential service that can support our employees, and their loved ones, through personal or professional challenges. Support is available every day of the year, at any hour and is easily accessible through a variety of channels and languages. The EAP is an important enhancement of our Total Rewards strategy and is supported by our extensive site level health and safety programmes as well as our Environmental Health and Safety Management System which sets out policies and global standards and provides trainings.
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