NEW FROM MANPOWERGROUP
Working to Change the World:
A Sustainable Future for Workers
Our purpose has never been more relevant than it is in 2020: We believe meaningful and sustainable employment has the power to change the world. Learn how amidst this extraordinary year, we’ve continued to find work for people including those displaced who needed new opportunities most; find the skills our clients needed to keep our world working; help people develop in-demand skills and employability; and make workplaces more equitable and inclusive.
More than 70 years ago, our business was founded on the principle of Doing Well by Doing Good - delivering a profit to our shareholders while contributing to society. Fast forward to today and this dual purpose still holds true:
We believe meaningful, sustainable employment has the power to change the world.
Our Plan
Our Sustainability Plan is built around learnability and employability: about how we help people nurture the desire and ability to develop in-demand skills to be employable for the long-term.
Ready for Work
Creating opportunities that help tomorrow’s talent develop the skills they need before they enter the labor market.
Skilling Up
Providing opportunities for people to acquire new skills and adapt to this fast-changing world of work.
Integrating & Including
Nurturing diversity and providing opportunities for all people to participate in the workplace and achieve their potential.
Our Stories
ManpowerGroup is delivering on our values to ensure our stakeholders emerge from this crisis stronger, more skilled, more competitive and more successful than ever before. Learn how our stakeholder view comes to life in global initiatives.
Associates
Associates are the core of our business and we are committed to supporting them at this very challenging time.
see the storiesRobotic Testing
Technology associates from our Experis group identified a revolutionary new way to expedite COVID testing—with the help of a robot—as part of the Covichain Robots project.
Heightened Sensitivity
At healthcare facilities where high-risk individuals are seeking care, we onboarded and trained IT helpdesk experts remotely to ensure heightened safety for vulnerable people.
Healthcare HQ
To serve our 1,200 healthcare associates staffing hospitals in Italy every day, we established a 24/7 center of operations, virtual collaborative environments for training and onboarding, and rapid learning programs.
Applied Experience
University employees, including cleaning staff, were rapidly retrained and redeployed to hospital settings. With their new skills, these associates are filling urgently needed roles in healthcare.
Getting out the Message
With unfilled positions in essential industries, the public service campaign “Working for The Netherlands” attracted workers to consider new opportunities. Since the crisis began, 50 of our associates have been placed in roles with the government.
Info Portal
We created a communication portal for our Spanish associates that has been a central resource focusing on both health and transparent policy updates from leadership.
Clients
We partner with our clients to uncover talent solutions that make them more agile and competitive in today’s market.
see the storiesConfronting Uncertainty
With the country’s vast hospitality sector confronting a sudden downturn, we worked with clients in the U.K. to lead communications that addressed employee concerns and delivered flexible work opportunities to furloughed workers.
Shifting Gears
We helped Cape Town manufacturer CGI Graphics shift from making automotive decals and badges to producing face shields. The initial production reactivated 30% of the company’s workers.
Critical Supplies
In San Luis Potosi, we helped manufacture and donate over 300,000 units of antibacterial gel to regional hospitals and public transportation in collaboration with public health services and our L’Oreal client.
All in One Place
To keep Marriott employees informed during the furlough, we launched a dedicated microsite with links to our opportunities page where they could apply for new roles.
Help Wanted
To accelerate job placement for students and alumni of Singapore Institute of Management, we supported its SGUnited Skills program, connecting young and mid-career professionals to prospective employers.
All Ears
Through our talent solutions arm, TAPFIN, we released a “Weekly Talent Insights” report to key clients to help them understand areas of concern and opportunity while they considered alternatives to ending assignments.
Community
By aligning the aspirations and skills of individuals with companies requiring more agility, we create prosperity for workers, organizations and communities. This shared value proposition is at the heart of everything we do at ManpowerGroup.
see the storiesWork-Ready
In cooperation with Assumption University, we organized programs for college students and recent grads and cohosted an online seminar, “Preparing New Graduates to Find Jobs During the COVID-19 Crisis.”
Giving Recognition
With nurses and healthcare workers sacrificing so much for the benefit of all, we commemorated Florence Nightingale’s birthday by honoring their service.
Protecting Jobs
We helped grow a nationwide campaign to protect employment in Spain into a robust information hub, providing more than 1,000 courses at no charge to help upskill workers and add marketable skills during the pandemic.
Navigating Restrictions
Expat restrictions during the pandemic led to acute talent shortages in Malaysia. By reactivating workers from affected talent pools and helping them renew visas, we helped address those shortages and secured pay increases for 80% of redeployed staff.
Welcoming Change
We made virtual applied learning programs available to technicians, trade workers and warehouse workers so that they could refocus on logistics and distribution for wellness supplies.
Substitute Teacher
Addressing sharp talent shortages during the pandemic brought new challenges to Norwegian workers. We ensured Yvvone Durant, a kindergarten teacher, took up a role at a health lab while his school was closed.
We're committed to making a difference in the areas we impact the most. That's why we're clear about the specific UN Sustainable Development Goals we support.
Our Perspective
We believe businesses have a responsibility to contribute to a sustainable future for work, for workers and for the world. We are driven to lead by example, and we are guided in everything we do by our Values, our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics and the UN Global Compact Principles and Sustainable Development Goals. This is how we attract and retain the best talent and how we create a culture of conscious inclusion that fosters innovation, enables high performance and allows everyone to achieve their full potential.
Human Capital
Human capital management is at the core of our business and is how we create value for individuals, organizations and communities. Every year, we connect millions of people to meaningful work across a wide variety of skills and industries, helping to power the success of organizations around the world while providing individuals with opportunities to build skills for the future and achieve their potential. Today, organizations are transforming faster than they ever imagined possible, reinforcing the need for a Skills Revolution now more than ever, and the role we can play in closing the skills gap. Our success in creating value for individuals and organizations depends on our ability to unleash the potential of our own people.
Diversity & Inclusion
As a global organization, with employees, candidates, clients and suppliers from every background, we value and encourage the broad range of perspectives and capabilities this diversity brings to our organization and to our stakeholders. We define diversity as differences of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, cultural background, gender, age, disability, caste, marital status, union membership, political affiliation, pregnancy, health, sexual orientation and gender identity.
We are committed to do all we can to fight racism and to strengthen diversity, equality and inclusion within our company, and in the communities in which we live and operate. We also know, from our vast experience in labor markets across the world, that we must engage and include all available talent and ignite human potential to sustainably grow prosperity around the world. It is the right thing to do, and it is what we must do to prosper.
Health & Safety
Every company has a responsibility to protect the health, safety and wellbeing of its employees. We put millions of people to work each year so we know that when people feel safe, engagement is higher, they stay longer and develop more skills and experience that benefit everyone. Since the health crisis caused by COVID-19, it’s more imperative than ever for people to feel safe and secure in a healthy work environment.
Human Rights and Fair Employment
For more than 70 years, we’ve been connecting millions of people to work and helping them develop skills to stay employable for the long-term. This way they can support their families, contribute to their communities and achieve their career goals. By respecting and promoting internationally proclaimed human rights, we can ensure that work is a source of dignity and purpose – as well as income – for the people we employ.
Ethics
As a company whose purpose is to connect people with meaningful and sustainable work, we understand the importance of trust and transparency and are proud to set a high standard for our industry. In 2020, we were recognized by Ethisphere as a World's Most Ethical Company for the 11th time -- the only company in our industry to earn this distinction.
Information Security & Data Privacy
As technology evolves and we adopt new tools and expand our use of data and analytics to deliver more value to clients and candidates, we are committed to being good stewards of the information entrusted to us. In the wake of COVID-19, the mass migration to remote working and rapid digitization of processes requires even greater prioritization of information security and privacy.
Sourcing & Supply Chain
As a global organization, working with thousands of suppliers in more than 75 countries, our reach is extensive and we take this responsibility seriously. By setting high standards for our extended network, we can amplify our sustainability impact and drive social change: improving transparency, reducing exposure to risk for ourselves and our clients, raising standards and positively impacting the lives of millions of people.
Environment
Climate change -- severe weather events, extreme temperatures, water shortages and other environmental concerns are impacting people’s ability to live and work safely. Corporations have an important role to play, together with public sector and civil society, to solve these challenges and ensure a sustainable future for all.
As a professional services company our environmental impact has always been relatively small. We are committed to adjusting our business model to support even more sustainable ways of working. And we are looking for new ways to advance the objectives of the Paris Agreement and the European Green Deal, especially in the areas of jobs and skills, where we can have the greatest impact.
Downloads
We are proud to share our impact and progress toward sustainable business and communities. We are continually reviewing the data we report to ensure we are measuring the indicators most important to our stakeholders and aligned to sustainability reporting best practice guidelines.