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We continue to keep a very close pulse on the overall health of our organization, employee engagement, and employee trust through quarterly employee surveys—allowing us to uncover insights and challenges early on in hopes we can proactively address them in meaningful ways.
A: Cultivating an inclusive, diverse workforce is foundational to enabling everyone to fully contribute to our mission and unleash their complete potential.
Heading into we strived to embed diversity, inclusion, and fairness (DIF) in all we do across the organization.
This included elements of cultural competence, equal opportunity, pay equity, inclusive benefits, employee resource groups, supplier diversity, and community engagement.
Our efforts also reflected the labor principles within the UN Global Compact.
Although our DIF efforts are not new, the horrific racial and social injustice events of more urgent, purposeful action.
As we considered how to continue our commitment to DIF in new and meaningful ways, we recognized the need for a dedicated leader who could help elevate our efforts, our thinking, and our diversity practices across the organization.
Dr. Lisa Toppin joined us in the fall as Vice President of Diversity & Inclusion.
(Black Employees Guiding Racial Empowerment and Trust) dedicated to black employees and allies, hosted diversity dialogue through company meetings, workshops, leadership forums, and guest speakers, promoted virtual courses on diversity, unconscious bias, and emotional intelligence, and increased efforts to recruit from...
While there is still much work to be done, we are committed to this journey of fostering a global culture that is more equitable and more representative of the diverse world we live in.
There is still much work to do to build a more equitable, inclusive, and sustainable world.
We will continue our efforts to build toward that future in our workplace, in our supply chain, and in our communities.
Our Why With an extraordinary mission comes the need for extraordinary people and leaders at every level.
Every day at Illumina, we have the chance to do once-in-a-lifetime work, transforming human health and driving scientific innovation.
We know the best ideas will come from a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone feels safe, respected, and supported.
Focusing on inclusion means amplifying our value of collaboration and building community.
To enable that environment, we offer flexible work conditions, and invest in developing employees throughout the various stages of their careers, including helping to enhance their technical, professional, and leadership skills.
A strong culture of safety, belonging, and wellness leads to more engaged employees, allowing our workforce to offer their best work to our mission.
We provide a portfolio of benefits and wellness programs to be the most compelling, in order to recruit top talent, to care for our employees through life events, and to support the variety of their personal needs.
We aim to create an environment that will reflect and represent the diverse communities we serve around the globe.
Our Commitment We are committed to nurturing a culture of care, delivering practices and programs that are as progressive as the products we are innovating.
By attracting, retaining, developing, and supporting our people, we can enable everyone to fully contribute to our mission and deliver on the transformative power of genomics.
Our aim is to help build a more equitable, inclusive, and sustainable world.
Our Objectives We strive to promote an inclusive and innovative workplace, powered by passionate people, to help drive the positive progress of genomics for all.
Making genomics useful for all is our purpose and our promise—to the people who work toward this every day and to the lives it touches.
Listening to Our Employees We regularly ask our employees to complete our iPulse survey.
In frequency from two times a year to quarterly.
This helps us gauge how they feel about the business and how we are performing.
In turn, these insights help leaders, at all levels, to better understand and respond to our employees’ needs.
The collective talent, diversity, and dedication of our employees supports our mission to improve human health.
We celebrate our employees’ unique life experiences, backgrounds, talents, passions, and contributions to innovation.
We strive to foster an inclusive and diverse culture in which all employees feel valued and appreciated.
This culture helps people engage at their best, knowing they have an equal opportunity to grow and succeed based on their performance, regardless of individual differences.
We invest equally in our employees and work to create a culture that encourages all our employees to share their unique perspectives and experiences, learn from one another, and contribute.
An inclusive, diverse workforce also reflects our global business and customer base and will lead to continuous improvements as an organization.
Although our DIF efforts did not begin in urgent action.
The violence and acts of racial injustice committed against black people in disparities in economics, education, wealth, and access to equitable healthcare.
We are making progress, but much remains to be done.
We recognize that change will not be quick or easy.
As we aim to embed diversity, inclusion, and fairness in all we do, our response to evolve our DIF strategy is integrated across the areas of our employees, our culture, our suppliers, and our community.
It includes setting new targets, investing in programs to drive improvements, and expanding transparency of our diversity data.
1 For additional data points on EEOC, refer to ESG Appendix Employees We aim to attract, develop, and retain a diverse workforce that reflects our global community.
We are committed to equal opportunity and providing employment and advancement opportunities to individuals based on merit.
To support this, we strive to offer meaningful development opportunities and rewards for impact, performance, and potential.
We believe no one should be paid differently due to their gender, race, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or national origin.
For this reason, we monitor our pay equity status and market competitiveness on an annual basis to ensure we offer equal pay.compensation cycle once again confirmed a zero net gap2 in pay.
Nonetheless, when we examine the average paywe recognize opportunities still exist to improve.
More senior positions at our company are held by men than women, which increases the average overall pay for men.
70 64 63 64 59 58 53 36 37 36 41 42 47 1 Senior leadership defined as Director and above.
difference in pay for the same or similar work, regardless of gender, ethnicity, or race.
Culture Our employee resource groups (ERG) are key to fostering a respectful workplace and a more inclusive environment.
By connecting individuals with their peers, ERGs enable groups to develop a collective voice on shared issues and promote internal and external diversity initiatives.
We aim to provide robust diversity, inclusion, and fairness training and programming beyond the minimum required content.
We are working to create a culture where employees choose to participate in these supplemental opportunities.
we can create a more equitable and just world.
CEO-driven business commitment to advance diversity and inclusion within the workplace.
The pledge recognizes the importance of companies truly representing the communities they serve, which results in improved economy, corporate performance, and employee engagement.
By working together toward diversity and inclusion within our workplaces, industries, and the broader business community, we can cultivate meaningful change for our society.
Suppliers Establishing collaborative partnerships with qualified small and diverse suppliers is a commitment we take very seriously.
We understand how important it is that our supply base reflects the diversity of the communities in which we live, work, and serve.
Moreover, we recognize that a diverse supply base offers a competitive advantage by harnessing suppliers’ unique experiences, creativity, and innovative solutions.
Our program, overseen by a Supplier Diversity Governance Committee, promotes partnership opportunities for suppliers in the US that are at least qualifying diverse group.
These include but are not limited to: woman-owned, minority-owned, veteranowned, disabled person–owned, LGBTQ-owned, or socially and economically disadvantaged-owned businesses.
Furthermore, we are expanding these supplier diversity principles to our international locations.
We encourage the use of local businesses wherever possible to support the economies where our employees work and live.
We aim to magnify our impact by extending these efforts throughout our value chain.
with knowledge, hatred with love, and complacency with action for equality.
STANDING WITH OUR BLACK AND AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES In Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Innocence Project, Public Allies, and the Equal Justice Initiative.
Building the world’s best team starts with caring for our employees and putting their welfare at the heart of all we do.
We offer a world-class portfolio of employee benefits and wellness programs, care for our employees through life events, support their diverse personal needs, and offer all our benefits to employees, spouses, domestic partners, and dependents.
, we provide access to genetic experts who can provide guidance and facilitate testing for employees and their families.
In addition, we offer financial support for cancer tests, reproductive health tests, and clinical wholegenome sequencing (cWGS) for rare and undiagnosed diseases.
Parental Leave Following the birth of a child or placement of a child for adoption or foster care, we provide employees for up to six weeks to help ensure peace of mind during this essential time.
at IlluminaOur employee benefits program recognizes the tremendous value our people bring to our business.
While benefits vary by country and region, we provide all our employees with an array of different programs.
Wellness Programs We recognize the importance of promoting a holistic approach to wellness.
To help our employees thrive, we undertake a number of activities to help meet their physical and mental health needs.
Our digital wellness platform is free to all full-time employees, enabling them to track wellness-related activities, as well as participate in fun activities, exercise classes, and quarterly virtual fitness challenges.
Running for Rosies One of the projects our US-based interns worked on in digital marketing campaign for child cancer organization Coming Up Rosies.
To continue the work and achievements of our interns, Illumina supported a global charity fitness challenge: a virtual 5K run.
Each entry into the run was linked to a donation from the Illumina Corporation Foundation.
In this way, we encouraged employees to keep moving while contributing to this special cause curated by our interns.
While Remote Our EMEA team members brought extra focus to wellness during the pandemic, training a further 20 mental health advocates and eight mental health first aiders.
The team also launched Wellness Wednesdays activities, a virtual wellness fair, and guided meditations, yoga, and mindfulness classes.
OUR STORIES OF IMPACT Walk the World for Rare Disease During the COVID-our employees to support their wellness and give back by connecting charity to a fitness challenge.
“Walk the World for Rare Disease” helped raise awareness about rare disease, and encouraged active, healthy lifestyles by promoting walking.
The challenge was a great success, with our employee participation rate more than double that of any previous fitness challenge.
Collectively we walked over steps—the equivalent of walking around the world.
The $five charities across the globe with a unique or innovative approach to supporting rare disease in their communities.
Our culture of care has never been more relevant or important.
In our response to the global pandemic, employee safety and wellness was our first and foremost priority.
To ensure we have exceptional people at every level of the business, we work tirelessly to attract diverse talent, providing the opportunities and support people need to progress in their chosen careers.
Carolina Perez, Mechanical Engineering student, Manufacturing Design Quality Summer Intern, US “This summer I had the pleasure of working as a Quality Engineering Intern within Illumina’s Manufacturing Design Quality team on a project improving risk management.
Illumina is a company that truly believes its greatest asset is its people.
There is a tangible energy and collaborative openness that stimulates growth in others.
It enables us to be our true selves and welcomes unique ideas to the table.
to make an impact by working on businesscritical projects.
Our aim is for our employees to enjoy a long and fulfilling career at Illumina.
This growth mindset begins with valuing learning over knowing, together with seeking new ideas and embracing challenges while developing.
From soft skills to technical knowledge, online learning to coaching clinics, we empower people to shape their own careers, taking advantage of the frequent opportunities to progress at Illumina.