Good for Our People
Our belief that, together, we are capable of even greater innovation, collaboration, creativity, and growth drives our commitment to creating an environment where everyone is welcome and given the tools to learn, lead and succeed.
Our Good for Our People strategic driver is informed by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Driving Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
We aspire to be a company that reflects the diversity of our communities. In pursuit of this aspiration, we created a DE&I strategy to formalize our commitment to not only create a diverse workplace but also foster an inclusive culture where people feel a sense of belonging and have access to opportunities for development, advancement, and recognition. Our DE&I strategy is rooted in five pillars: Knowledge, Diversity, Inclusion, Accountability, and External Awareness.
| Driving Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Goals and Progress | BY 2025 | 2023 Progress |
|---|---|---|
| Connect leaders more closely to Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and DE&I initiatives across the organization with a greater emphasis on retention and engagement in 2024/2025. | → | Ongoing - We continue to sustain and improve leadership involvement in DEI initiatives (details in notes below). |
| Provide recognition to ERG members and employees who actively engage in community partnerships aligned with ERGs’ priorities and/or DE&I principles and practices. | → | This is a new goal. |
| Deliver inclusive experiences through ERGs and Fossil Group Gatherings that engages, retains, embraces, and leverages similarities and differences for all employees. | → | We had over 70 ERG events, nearly 11,000 total attendance for all events combined, with 292 unique ERG members, and almost 50% of our members are in 2+ employee resource groups. |
| Grow our individual and collective knowledge of diversity, equity, and inclusion principles and practices. | → | Launched our first issue of the Diversity Matters newsletter—a quarterly publication with news about our D&I activities, goals, and progress, Organized our first global Fossil Group Gathering: “World Day for Cultural Diversity and Dialogue” with speakers from all regions. |
Advancing Equality in the Supply Chain
We go beyond aspiring to create a diverse and inclusive workplace for our employees. We also remain firmly committed to human rights and fair, equitable, and safe environments for factory workers in our supply chain with special consideration for empowering women. We continue to report our annual supply chain data.
| Advancing Equality in the Supply Chain Goals and Progress | ||
|---|---|---|
| BY 2030 | 2023 Progress | |
| Through complete mapping of the Fossil supply chain, gain visibility to human rights practices in order to align to the commitments in Fossil's Human Rights Policy (2030) | → | This is a new goal |
| BY 2025 | ||
| Raise health education awareness of over 15,000 women by partnering with factories who educate their workers via the HER/SHE program. | → | 13,000 women have been educated via the HER/SHE program. |
Partners in Purpose
Learn more about our Good for Our People commitments, goals, and progress: