At Air Liquide, we create an engaging and inclusive environment that allows each employee to flourish. In Brazil, this approach has helped develop team motivation and strengthened collaboration between teams.
We place our employees at the center of everything we do, and we encourage them to grow and develop their potential through our program ‘Be, Act, Engage’. This initiative is based on dialogue and collaboration. We also ensure that our employees connect with and understand the company’s larger goals and objectives, which is why employee engagement is a key pillar of Air Liquide’s sustainable development strategy. In this context, we have launched many initiatives.
It’s impossible to choose! We have implemented new programs in several areas: safety, development, collaboration, inclusion and diversity, health and well-being, social responsibility. To do so, we have listened to employees’ expectations and engaged them in their implementation. For example, we created a Diversity Committee and founded ‘Give an UP to your CV’ to increase the inclusion of disabled persons in the workforce. We’ve remodeled our offices to include more collaborative spaces and implemented a new remote-work policy. I’m also very proud of CuidAR, a well-being program that promotes mental, physical and emotional health.
Definitely! The benefits of these programs are tenfold and are demonstrated in a concrete fashion by our survey results. With My Voice, the Group program to measure employee engagement at Air Liquide, we have seen an increase of several points in our engagement index between 2020 and 2021. Another survey, the Great Place to Work external review compares us with the Brazilian market, and we have risen 13 points just between 2019 and 2021! These are great signs that our commitment to creating a welcoming and motivating environment for everyone within the company is working. Additionally, a representative of one of our suppliers told me that she had noticed positive evolution in our employees’ relationships with her team and she asked me for our strategy so that she could use it in her own company. That’s what I am most proud of!
At Air Liquide, we believe in lifelong learning where employees continuously create, acquire and transfer knowledge. At the heart of our ‘learning organization,’ Air Liquide University’s role is to foster innovation, openness, performance and diversity across the Group. New learning methods are incorporated in order to keep the Group in step with 21st-century trends such as climate change and the energy transition. In 2021, 74% of employees have received at least one training course.
Air Liquide has launched My Voice, a program that measures employee engagement. The principles behind it are simple: listening, understanding and acting. Since its 2019 launch, feedback from employees has been collected on an annual basis to better understand their expectations and to pinpoint and take relevant actions, thus improving their experience. In 2021, 83% of employees participated in this survey.
With 66,400 employees in 75 countries, 150 nationalities are currently represented within the Group. Air Liquide’s objective is to have diverse teams that represent the local culture in which they operate. The Group is also committed to creating equal opportunity for all and promoting a culture of inclusion, and has also set ambitious gender equality goals. In 2021, 31% of engineers and professionals were women, and four of the current 14 Executive Committee members are women.
