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We Nurture Differences
Diversity and Inclusion
We believe in respecting and encouraging diversity and make it a point to encourage the intake of people with diverse backgrounds, not only at the headquarter office but also at our plants and across our territories. We firmly believe that encouraging diversity means encouraging policies and systems that respect people’s special needs.
Approximately 10% of our employee strength at plants comprises specially-abled people. Therefore, we provide training in general discipline and safety requirements, offer training on the job and also sensitize existing employees on inclusive behaviour.
Our effort towards encouraging diversity is not limited to internal initiatives. A recent tie-up with Job Street has allowed us to move into a completely new arena: we offer, on this site, jobs that we feel women would be better equipped to handle. It reaches out to career women who have taken a break in their careers and provides us access to talent that is not currently present in an active workforce. The initiative has not only worked well but has also helped us win the confidence of potential female talent that would add to the richness of our diverse work culture.
To support such diversity, we also offer special provisions like sabbaticals, flexible timing and other support to women with young children or family responsibilities.
At PepsiCo we value special people and understand that their special needs are ours to manage.
We believe in driving diversity and inclusion inside and outside our business, from our Global Chief Executive through to our supply chain partners.
Rewarding Diversity and Inclusion at PepsiCo – The Harvey C Russell Inclusion Award
We think that providing incentives to promote diversity and inclusion can help drive these values in our business. This is why we’ve established the Harvey C. Russell Inclusion Award to reward outstanding accomplishments in promoting diversity and inclusion within the company.
Harvey Russell was PepsiCo’s first African-American Vice President when he was appointed in 1962. He was also the first African-American in such a position at a major international corporation at the time.
To encourage diversity and inclusion in our suppliers, we’ve extended the award to our external partners.
We believe in happy workers. We want to empower our employees to choose how to fit their work around their life and grow to fulfil their potential.
Flexible working
We understand the important role that flexible working can play in striking a positive lifestyle balance.
Our forward thinking ‘Flexible Working Scheme’ embraces the different needs and situations of all employees by enabling them to choose the hours they work.
Helping families and new parents
Many of our employees are parents and we’re dedicated to working with them to help meet their and their children’s needs. We try and make flexible working options available across our business.
We also give special consideration to women coming back from maternity leave, with the opportunity to phase in their working hours.
Health and safety
Our record on health and safety is second to none, with accident rates low and falling.
