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Employee Engagement
Employee Engagement
The Estée Lauder Companies is committed to empowering, upskilling and educating its employees to drive social impact and sustainability across the business and in the communities where they live and work. Inspired by the generosity of employees, the company continues to foster a culture of global citizenship that values and celebrates the importance of inclusion, diversity, and equity, by supporting employees’ passions and amplifying collective impact and shared culture of purpose.
Empowering Employees’ Good Works
The company recognizes the causes that matter to employees and seeks to bolster the contributions they make. To further empower employees, ELC Good Works, the company’s global charitable matching gifts and volunteerism program allows eligible employees1 to create and sign-up for volunteer activities, as well as request to have their donations and volunteer hours matched by the company.
ELC Good Works is available in all regions, including 31 markets, helping us achieve our goal by 2025 to engage and mobilize employees to contribute a total of $25 million, by completing actions such as donating or volunteering, to nonprofits through ELC’s social impact and sustainability engagement program, since its launch in 2015.1 In fiscal 2023, we launched our first ELC Good Works Purpose Week— a 5-day series of global education, engagement, and volunteering opportunities—and relaunched the Leonard A. Lauder Impact Awards, which celebrate and honor employees’ volunteerism.
1Volunteer Time Off (VTO) eligibility includes active, full-time regular corporate employees in Argentina, Brazil, Benelux, Mainland China, Mexico, South Africa, and the United Kingdom, and active, full-time regular corporate and manufacturing and fulfillment employees in the United States and United Kingdom can utilize up to 16 VTO hours per calendar year. Active, part-time regular corporate employees in Argentina, Brazil, Benelux, Mainland China, Mexico, South Africa, and the United Kingdom, and part-time regular corporate and manufacturing and fulfillment employees in the United States and United Kingdom can utilize up to eight VTO hours per calendar year.
Driving Employee Impact
We believe that employees can “lead from any chair,” and we apply this principle to our social investment efforts. The Community Impact Grant was created in 2014 to give Employee Resource Group members the unique opportunity to fund and volunteer with the nonprofit(s) that they care about and that are aligned to the company’s values.
Supporting ELC Family
The ELC Cares Employee Relief Fund (ELC Cares Fund) provides immediate and critical financial relief to employees impacted by catastrophic disasters, personal disasters, and personal hardships (including COVID-19). Through contributions from the company, the Lauder family and ELC employees, the ELC Cares Fund supports employees when they need it the most. Eligible employees globally can donate to the ELC Cares Fund to support one another in difficult times.
Educating and Upskilling
We aim to foster an environment of curiosity and continuous development through the ELC Learning Hub, our central digital training and education destination. Available in more than 30 languages, ELC Learning Hub offers over 30,000 interactive learning experiences to our global workforce. In fiscal 2023, we launched offerings that focused on advanced skill development in IT, innovation and best practices in social impact and sustainability, and resiliency through holistic well-being.
