Sodexo joins “The Valuable 500” initiative to place disability on the business agenda, reinforcing its commitment to disa...
January 15 2020 - 8:00AM
Sodexo joins “The Valuable 500” initiative to place disability on
the business agenda, reinforcing its commitment to disability
inclusion
Paris, January 15, 2020 – Sodexo, world leader in
Quality of Life Services, is proud to announce its membership in
The Valuable 500, an international initiative striving to put
disability on the leadership agenda. Sodexo supports the campaign
dedicated to unlocking the business, social and economic value of
people living with disabilities around the world.
Denis Machuel,
Chief Executive Officer of Sodexo, said: “We are
convinced that by mobilizing our employees towards a more inclusive
growth, we can eliminate misconceptions and biases that hold people
with mental or physical disabilities back to make sure everyone can
reach their full potential. We hope many other companies will join
the Valuable 500 initiative to make our collective efforts part of
the usual way of doing business going forward.”
With this announcement, Sodexo affirms its ongoing commitment
that by 2025, 100% of its workforce will have access to initiatives
supporting the inclusion of people with disabilities. Concretely
this means that each country where Sodexo operates will have:
- A non-discrimination policy about people with disabilities
- Communications to support the inclusion of people with
disabilities
- A disability champion amongst our employees to pursue our
disability commitment
Sodexo has partnered with the International
Labor Organizations Global Business and Disability Network. This
partnership supports Sodexo’s disability inclusion efforts by
facilitating the opportunity to learn from and share experiences
with other global leaders and providing access to country specific
information.
According to The World Bank, more than 1.3
billion people around the world live with some form of disability.
To address this, The Valuable 500 was launched at the World
Economic Forum in Davos in January 2019. Their goal has been to
sign 500 national and multinational, private sector corporations
and unite them to serve as role models for change on this vital
issue. To date, more than 200 global businesses have signed up.
“It is extremely promising to see global
companies like Sodexo, from all four corners of the globe and
across a vast array of sectors, continuing to pledge to join our
disability inclusion movement nearly twelve months on from its
launch. As The Valuable 500’s historic return to Davos fast
approaches, it throws into sharp relief our progress in tackling
‘diversish’ attitudes in the workplace over the past year. We
gladly welcome these new members – I am certain they will be
instrumental in ensuring disability inclusion becomes the norm in
working life globally.” Said Caroline Casey, Founder, The Valuable
500.
About The Valuable 500
Launched by Binc, #valuable is a campaign
working to ensure businesses globally recognise the value of the
one billion people around the world living with a disability. We
believe that building a global society that recognises the value of
the 1 billion people living with a disability starts with business.
We’re on a mission to make sure businesses across the world
recognise the value of the one billion people living with a
disability.Binc was founded by social entrepreneur and activist
Caroline Casey in 2015, with a mission to ignite a historic global
movement for a new age of business inclusion. Binc is capitalising
on Caroline Casey’s 18-year track record of success engaging over
450 organisations and working with 500,000 business leaders. Binc
fundamentally believes that inclusive business creates inclusive
societies and is initiating a new approach to business that
genuinely includes the 1 billion people living in the world with a
disability. Binc is the founding team behind valuable, an ambitious
global campaign to put inclusivity on top of the business agenda
around the world in 2019.
About Sodexo
Founded in Marseille in 1966 by Pierre Bellon,
Sodexo is the global leader in services that improve Quality of
Life, an essential factor in individual and organizational
performance. Operating in 67 countries, Sodexo serves 100 million
consumers each day through its unique combination of On-site
Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal and Home
Services. Sodexo provides clients an integrated offering developed
over more than 50 years of experience: from foodservices,
reception, maintenance and cleaning, to facilities and equipment
management; from services and programs fostering employees’
engagement to solutions that simplify and optimize their mobility
and expenses management, to in-home assistance, child care centers
and concierge services. Sodexo’s success and performance are
founded on its independence, its sustainable business model and its
ability to continuously develop and engage its 470,000 employees
throughout the world.
Sodexo is included in the CAC 40, FTSE 4 Good and DJSI
indices.
Key figures (as of August 31, 2019)
22 billion euro in
consolidated revenues 470,000 employees
19th largest private employer
worldwide67 countries 100 million
consumers served daily 15.8 billion euro in market
capitalization (as of January 8, 2020)
Contacts
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Dalila ElluinTel: +33 1 57 75 80
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