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At Philips we’re always looking for ways to make life better – not only for our customers, but also for everyone working here.
So we embrace everything that makes you unique. Here, you’ll be valued in all aspects of diversity, whether it’s race, ethnicity or age, or gender or sexual orientation, or any other aspect that makes you ‘you.’

We recognize the proven benefits of enhanced innovation, greater performance and employee satisfaction that derive from a diverse and inclusive workplace. Leveraging our differences makes us more creative, innovative and effective. That’s how we can best anticipate the needs of our customers, now and in the future – by representing them, in all their diversity, in our own teams.

We will need to champion a new way of working, use a different lens and shift our mindsets to build and foster that inclusive culture.

Some of our key strategies to make it happen include the following actions:

We committed to have 1 in 4 women in senior leadership roles by 2020
We implemented principles of transparency for the recruitment, appointment and promotion of all senior leadership positions
We enabled data visibility of gender balance for all Executive members and HR Business Partners through monthly reviewed dashboards to offer insight and review progress towards our gender goals
We are rolling out unconscious bias awareness training for the Philips leadership team (PLT) and their teams to initiate an ongoing dialogue and awareness about bias that leads to team commitments to mitigate bias
We are revitalising and growing our existing and new employee resource groups
We will develop a global mentoring framework to create structure, stimulate new connections and mutual learning to develop and progress diverse talent (fuelling collaboration).
We will build on our Women’s Leadership programs with a focus on networking and sponsoring by males and females.

What helps to advance women in the workplace? Our policies, initiatives and workplace culture helped earn us the world's top 1000 companies for millenial women via Mogul...

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Philips is a leader when it comes to setting the bar for creating office cultures that include paid leave, no harassment policies, and mentorship programs to elevate the next generation of female executives...

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At heart, Philips is an innovation company: we are determined to be a company of ‘All Talents’ to fulfill our terrific potential and deliver on our goal to improve the lives of three billion people a year by 2030.

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