People First

We advocate for collaboration and the creation of a unified, engaged, and performance-based culture that is centered around our people.

In today’s busy world and working environment, physical well-being is not enough. We also want to ensure stable mental well-being by offering our employees a good and stable work culture, which is the foundation of happy employees. In 2022, the engagement level, eNPS, was at 37, which is above the 25% top industry benchmark. 

We invest in developing our leadership capabilities, and provide opportunities to grow and inherit our sustainability mindsets by inspiring talent and maximizing performance.

In the leadership pillar, we set clear expectations about what it means to be a leader at Uponor, and then create opportunities for our leaders to develop and strengthen their capabilities to lead their teams. Our leaders are integral to creating the unified, high-performing culture we are striving for, and have an important role to fill to inspire and motivate their teams. Our most senior leaders have regular touchpoints for global collaboration and knowledge sharing.

We offer our employees a working environment where they thrive and feel appreciated and respected regardless of their religion, sex, national or social origin, or any other status. As members of Charta der Vielfalt, we endorse equal opportunities and recognition and integration of diversity into business culture. Diversity is often an untapped resource that encourages different viewpoints and drives innovation. We foster our diverse workforce and excel because of the competence it brings. 

As part of our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion strategy, we strive to occupy the top 50 management positions with 40% each of men and women.
 

Target by 2027:

• 40% representation of both men and women in the top 50 management positions

We are known for our strong employee culture of collaboration and productivity. Besides our talent management programs, we continuously listen to our employees and aim to remain an attractive employer for our talents. In 2022, we received the “Great Place to Work” Award in Spain, Poland, the UK, and for our Frankfurt office in Germany.

In the United States, we were honored with the Top Workplace Award, which is entirely based on feedback from an employee engagement survey conducted by independent third-party research.

Our employees are our most valuable asset, and their safety and well-being are our top priority. We have set an ambition of Zero accidents. To increase visibility of the importance of safety to employees and to reinforce the safety guidelines we have launched the Mission Zero strategy. The campaign includes extensive plans to reduce our Lost-Time-Incident Frequency rate (LTIF) by 30% every year.
In recent years we have continuously reached that target, however, in 2022 our LTIF rate increased (to 6 from 4.8) and corrective actions including a new safety tool were implemented.

Targets:

• Reduce LTIF rate by 30% annually
• Zero accidents