From the Company
Walgreens is focused on reimagining local healthcare and well-being for all. Its business consists of team members with a wide array of backgrounds, cultures, experiences, insights and perspectives who reflect the diverse customers and communities we serve. It is our goal to ensure our people feel safe and secure while being able to live their most authentic lives as employees. We believe inclusion should be at the forefront of our work, and it is a core driver of success for our business.
Our diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) strategy is centered on four pillars:
1) Building talented and diverse teams
2) Understanding our environmental and social impact
3) Building inclusive brands and services
4) Continuously learning
During fiscal 2023, we put great effort into focus areas like leadership accountability and transparency in building talented and diverse teams, the expansion of our business resource groups (BRGs), driving and enhancing supplier diversity initiatives and ongoing organizational learning and awareness.
The company’s DEI initiatives include increasing access to affordable, quality healthcare, and partnering with community organizations to provide and promote a positive, safe and diverse workplace environment. To measure its progress, Walgreens has set specific targets to achieve by certain fiscal years. For example, the company has achieved its fiscal year 2024 goal of donating $5 million worth of flu shot vouchers and contributing more than $25 million to Susan G. Komen and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
Walgreens has also made significant progress toward its inclusion goals and workplace targets. In fiscal year 2023, the company set the following goals:
- Increase the representation of women in leadership.
- Increase representation of people with disabilities across the company.
- Increase people of color.
The company also achieved its goal of increasing spend with Tier 1 diverse suppliers to $700 million in fiscal year 2023, exceeding this target by $26 million, with a total spend of $726 million.
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