Social performance indicators

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Social performance indicators 1	Unit	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017

Employees
Number of employees	Headcount	15’111	14’118	14’678	15’027	15’835
	FTE 2	14’532	13’562	14’073	14’413	15’163
Employees younger than 30	% of headcount	16	15	17	19	19
Employees between 30 - 50	% of headcount	58	59	57	54	53
Employees older than 50	% of headcount	26	26	26	27	28

Female employees	Headcount	2’952	2’812	2’958	2’512	2’347
	FTE	2’817	2’764	2’851	2’397	2’213
	% of headcount	19.5	19.9	20.2	16.7	14.8
Women on the Board of Directors	Number	2	2	2	2	2
	%	28.6	25.0	22.2	22.2	22.2

Women on the Executive Committee	Number	0	0	0	0	0
Women in management positions 3	FTE	114	97	100	88	90
	% of total management positions	15.8	15.8	16.4	14.8	14.2

Newly appointed male managers 4	Headcount	74
Newly appointed female managers 4	Headcount	31
	% of new appointments	30

Part-time employees	Headcount	405	396	400	457	373
	%	2.7	2.8	2.7	3.0	2.4
Female part-time employees	Headcount	264	261
	% of part-time employees	65	66
Student interns	Headcount	98	104	133	174	145
Apprentices	Headcount	363	387	446	469	525

Employees with disabilities	Headcount	115	114	129	280	298
	%	0.8	0.8	0.9	1.9	1.9

Total new hires	Headcount	2’842
New hires, male	Headcount	2’279
New hires, female	Headcount	563
New hires of employees younger than 30 4	Headcount	1’055
New hires of employees between 30 - 50 4	Headcount	1’438
New hires of employees older than 50 4	Headcount	349

Total departures 5	Headcount	2’038	2’019	2’162	1’796	1’603
Departures, male 4	Headcount	1’610
Departures, female 4	Headcount	428
Departures of employees under 30 years 4	Headcount	553
Departures of employees between 30 - 50 years 4	Headcount	1’113
Departures of employees over 50 years 4	Headcount	373
Total employee fluctuation 5	%	14.6	14.6	15.8	11.9	11.3

Employee surveys 6	Number of employees surveyed	5’431	3’289	5’448	6’341	6’987

Investigated incidents of discrimination	Number	0	2	1	3	1

Employees under collective bargaining agreement	Headcount	8’509	8’178
	%	56	58

Training and professional development
Training and professional development	Number of GF employees with training (headcount)	10’209	9’394	10’517	11’558	12’192
	%	67.6	66.5	71.7	76.9	77.0
Training days	Days worked	22’975	18’860	30’527	36’974	38’822
	Days per employee	1.5	1.3	2.1	2.5	2.5

Health and safety
Fatalities, work-related	Number	0 7	0	0	0	0
Work-related accidents involving injury of GF employees	Number	260	180	282	425	407
Work-related accidents involving injury of leased personnel	Number	41	22	56	133	145
Work-related accidents involving injury of other third parties	Number	42	4	7	10	14
Sustainability Targets 2025: Lost time injury frequency rate (LTIFR)	per 1'000'000 hours worked	10.2 7	9.2
Sustainability Targets 2025: Target line lost time injury frequency rate (LTIFR) 8	per 1'000'000 hours worked	8.7	9.2
Absence days due to work-related accidents or illness	Days worked	4’943	3’593	6’605	8’675	6’750
Absence rate due to work-related accidents or illness	% of total days worked	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2
Total absence days	Days worked	121’114	113’478	127’228	148’361	139’407


Community
Order volume from workshops employing disabled people	CHF million	2.5	2.5	2.6	2.9	2.4
Charitable donations	CHF million	2.5	2.9	3.5	4.0	4.5

1 The social performance indicators include all GF companies with ten or more employees.

2 FTE stands for Full Time Equivalents.

3 Management positions are defined as members of the management board of each business entity or managers who report to a managing director.

4 In 2021, the scope of social data reporting was extended and the collection of several figures started in 2021 for the first time. As a result no previous year data is available.

5 The definition of departures was slightly amended in 2021 and does not include internal transfers, and natural departures, e.g. retirements as of 2021 reporting period. In previous reporting periods, those departures are still included.

6 The figure represents the number of employees who were requested to participate in the survey.

7 2021 PwC assured. The 2021 PwC assurance process was slightly adapted according to the KPIs of the Sustainability Framework 2025. Further details on the previous year assurance processe are available in the Sustainability Report 2020, by clicking on the following link: https://sustainability-report.georgfischer.com/20/en/social-performance-indicators/

8 The target line is calculated linearly based on the baseline data and according to the defined target.

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