Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Building a More Diverse and Inclusive Workforce

Ecolab’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) reflects our longstanding value of working together to integrate diverse perspectives to challenge ourselves, reach our goals and do what’s right.

Creating More Inclusive Communities

We’re leveraging our leadership position to exemplify how to listen and act on behalf of communities who have historically been left out. We work to:

Collaborate with external partners and community leaders to educate ourselves about relevant social and civic issues
Work to steer our suppliers toward equitable practices, and lobby governments for reform
Fund initiatives within communities to make change real at a local level

Man sitting down and smiling in power plant - Ecolab

Driving DE&I Through Courageous Conversations

Hear from Tina Grant, Human Resources Director, on advancing allyship through conversation.

Supporting a Diverse, Equitable and Inclusive Workforce with Opportunities for All

We continue to take steps to promote diversity, equity and inclusion in our organization by:

Setting ambitious goals and reviewing our progress monthly
Continuing to provide equal pay across gender and race for associates who undertake the same work, at the same level, and with the same performance and experience
Integrating diversity and inclusion practices, training and diagnostics throughout all of our people processes, from talent selection to leadership development
Supporting a vibrant community of Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to connect engaged, emerging leaders with professional development opportunities
Embedding DE&I best practices in training for all of our people managers, providing support and guidance for interviewing and selecting candidates

allyship in action

Following the death of George Floyd in our headquarters community of Saint Paul, MN in 2020, we pledged to provide more frequent opportunities for real conversations about race and to build a more inclusive culture across all our non-majority employee groups. Stemming from this commitment, we held two Day of Understanding events focused on race and gender.

In August 2020, we held our first Day of Understanding event to facilitate dialogue about racism against Black and African American people in the U.S. More than 4,500 associates attended a town hall and 1,800 participated in small group breakout sessions led by senior business leaders. And in January 2021, we continued the conversation with a focus on women at work, gender equality, allyship and inclusion drawing over 8,500 participants to a town hall and more than 3,500 to breakout sessions.

And, to help associates have ongoing conversations, build trust and be better allies to those who face discrimination, over one quarter of our global workforce has completed an online Allyship in Action training course.

2020 Milestones and Achievements

40%

increase in female
and BIPOC executives
since 2015

Double-digit

increase in Employee
Resource Group (ERG)
membership in 2019

Partners

with Twin Cities
Rise and Water.org
to advance opportunity

Recruitment

diversity recruitment with
HBCUs, Hispanic Serving
Institutions, and more

x2

double our 2020 spend
on diverse and minority-owned
suppliers by 2022

Suppliers

focused on equitable
partnerships with a new
Supplier Diversity team

Woman wearing hard hat and goggles in power plant - Ecolab

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2020 Employee Data

We are committed to improving diversity among our employees at all levels, including among management and leadership positions.

Global Gender Diversity

2020 Representation

All Global Employees

72.2% Men
26.8% Women
1.0% Not Specified

Global Management Employees

75.6% Men
24.3% Women

Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the U.S.

2020 Representation

All U.S. Employees

71.1% Non-minority
27.1% Minority
1.8% Not Specified

U.S. Management Employees

81.4% Non-minority
17.3% Minority
1.3% Not Specified

Recognition for Our Leadership in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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Working Mother 100 Best Companies List

The Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index

The DiversityInc Top 50

The Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index

The ESGR Department of Defense Freedom Award

NAFE Top Companies for Executive Women

Gender Equality Index

Recent legislation in France requires companies with more than 50 employees to publish a gender equality index score on a scale of 100, calculated based on five criteria.

The index (l’Index Egalité Femmes-Hommes) measures different indicators around professional equality: gap in remuneration, gap in the proportion of women and men receiving an augmentation, gap in the proportion of women and men promoted, the systematic augmentation of women during maternity leave, the number of women among the highest paid in the company.

Companies with scores below a threshold of 75 out of 100 are required to define and put into place corrective measures, within three years.

Here are the scores for 2020 :

Ecolab SNC : 77/100
Ecolab Pest France : 92/100
Anios : 91/100
Nalco : 83/100
Ecolab Production : 89/100
Soluscope : 91/100