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.
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 our strategy to formalize our commitment to create a diverse workplace and foster an inclusive culture where people feel a sense of belonging and have access to opportunities for development, advancement, and recognition. Our strategy is rooted in five pillars: Knowledge, Diversity, Inclusion, Accountability, and External Awareness.
| Driving Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Goals and Progress | BY 2025 | 2024 Progress |
|---|---|---|
| Connect leaders more closely to Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives across the organization with a greater emphasis on retention and engagement in 2024/2025. | → | Senior leadership engagement increased 29% year-over-year as our leaders served as Executive Sponsors, panel participants, and speakers. |
| Provide recognition to ERG members and employees who actively engage in community partnerships aligned with ERGs’ priorities and/or diversity, equity, and inclusion principles and practices. | → | Phase one began with ERG Leaders receiving detailed information on ERG achievements giving increased visibility to annual scorecards and recognizing the employee leaders |
| Deliver inclusive experiences through ERGs and Fossil Group Gatherings that engages, retains, embraces, and leverages similarities and differences for all employees. | → | We had 50+ ERG events, nearly 10,500 total combined attendance with 219 unique ERG members. In addition, over half of our ERG members (53%) participated in two or more employee resource groups. |
| Grow our individual and collective knowledge of diversity, equity, and inclusion principles and practices. | → | Maintained Diversity Matters quarterly newsletter highlighting DE&I progress and expanded Fossil Group Gatherings to include global and retail employees, achieving a 4% engagement increase. |
Advancing Equality in the Supply Chain
Beyond creating a diverse workplace for our employees, we 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 transparently publish annual supply chain data to ensure accountability.
| Advancing Equality in the Supply Chain Goals and Progress | ||
|---|---|---|
| BY 2030 | 2024 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 were educated via the HER/SHE program. This goal was closed out reaching 88% of women in our factories. |
Partners in Purpose
