[International Women’s Day ②] Samsung Spotlights Ladies within the Office – Samsung International Newsroom

In celebration of Worldwide Ladies’s Day, Samsung Electronics held a wide range of occasions associated to this 12 months’s slogan, #InspireInclusion. The System Expertise (DX) Division ran a photograph marketing campaign that inspired workers to take footage collectively whereas making hearts with their arms — the official gesture symbolizing Worldwide Ladies’s Day. The occasion was a hit, with footage to show it. “I’m glad to have taken half in such a enjoyable and significant occasion,” stated Seok-Nyoung Cha from the MX Division. “I hope we will all suppose deeply and act collectively to struggle biases, stereotypes and discrimination.”

Greater than 700 workers took time to thank the feminine colleagues and members of the family of their life at one other occasion. On the DX Division’s Feminine Executives’ workshop, hosted since 2021, feminine executives held candid conversations with the CEO to debate the corporate’s imaginative and prescient and methods to foster feminine leaders. Moreover, a mentoring program for feminine builders will probably be launched this 12 months.

▲ Staff maintain up coronary heart arms — the official Worldwide Ladies’s Day gesture — in entrance of a photograph wall arrange by the DX Division.

Beginning this March, the System Options (DS) Division will manage month-to-month actions to construct consciousness of variety, fairness and inclusion (DEI) values amongst its workers. After deciding on DEI subjects centered on girls, folks with disabilities, caregivers and foreigners, the division will maintain contests and coaching periods every month that give workers an opportunity to learn to present assist for each other. Moreover, the division will conduct interviews with feminine leaders in celebration of Worldwide Ladies’s Month and relay their ideas on feminine management and the way youthful girls can develop of their careers.

Outdoors of Korea, the corporate will companion with Costume For Success (DFS)¹ in three nations — the U.S., Canada and Mexico — to arrange clothes donation drives to assist girls get jobs and achieve monetary independence. Webinars and seminars that increase consciousness about DEI will probably be held as properly.

Final November, the DX division established the DEI workplace to mirror DEI values in all areas of the enterprise, determine areas of enchancment and additional promote an inclusive company tradition. To this finish, the workplace checks the corporate’s programs and tradition for discriminatory practices and holds coaching periods and campaigns to provide workers an correct understanding of those values. As well as, the workplace helps voluntary Worker Assets Teams (ERGs) devoted to DEI that facilitate discussions on the corporate’s variety standing and enchancment targets by means of the DEI Council, by which the corporate’s executives participate. “It’s of the utmost significance to function a various and equitable system. We consider that revolutionary services can emerge from a tradition the place DEI is revered,” stated Jinhee Nam, Secretary Normal of the DEI Workplace at Samsung Electronics. “Our workplace established a world DEI coverage and plans to function varied packages to extend variety and create an inclusive organizational tradition.”

Jong-Hee Han, Vice Chairman and CEO of the DX Division at Samsung Electronics, and Kye Hyun Kyung, President and CEO of the DS Division at Samsung Electronics, delivered a company-wide message to workers calling for gender equality and highlighting the significance of DEI in honor of Worldwide Ladies’s Day. “I wish to categorical my gratitude to all the feminine workers within the DS Division who’re doing their finest,” stated Kyung. “We’ll assist all workers notice their full potential to realize each private {and professional} progress at Samsung,” Han assured.

¹ Based in New York Metropolis in 1997 to assist unemployed and underemployed girls obtain financial independence.