We recently launched a new “Flex My Way” program, which is a supportive workplace policy that promotes work-life balance and improved flexibility. Policies include flexible and hybrid working, caregiver paid time off, increased bereavement leave and work from anywhere for up to eight weeks per year (with up to four weeks in an authorized country and the remaining in your country of employment), sabbatical leave and flexible vacation in the US and Canada.
Our mental health resources include free access to an employee assistance program, a meditation app, mindfulness discussions, eLearning, month-long spotlights on mental health centered around two annual mental health days off (May and October), and People Leader Mindful Leadership training and resources on leading a mentally healthy workplace. We are also signatories to the Mindful Business Charter, where we have committed to creating practices and policies to rehumanize the workplace.
Our wellbeing offerings give employees access to physical, financial, and social resources, inclusive of learning opportunities, financial and legal counseling, resource guides, and individual counseling and coaching. We have committed to creating a healthy, safe and supportive workplace with monthly campaigns focused on spotlighting personal wellbeing resources and healthy workplace practices within our environment, building awareness to internal and external resources of support, promoting employee connection with personal story telling through our internal community channels such as organized chats and blog posts, involvement in business resource groups, and creating brave spaces where people can come together to support each other through crisis and events that are impacting our colleagues.
Community Impact
At Thomson Reuters, we have a shared responsibility to do business in ways that respect, protect and benefit our customers, our employees, our communities and our environment. To support this corporate value, we encourage employee volunteerism, provide financial and in-kind donations and offer corporate matches for employee donations.
Every year, Thomson Reuters provides 16 hours of paid volunteer time off (VTO) to every employee and provides an additional 20 hours of paid VTO to a subset of employees with law degrees to provide legal pro bono aid to nonprofit organizations. In 2022, our employees logged over 68,000 volunteer hours in total. Thomson Reuters employees have personal and professional skills that can help our communities address critical needs which, in turn, increases their knowledge about important social issues and develops a variety of relevant organizational skills. In addition to legal pro bono aid, we offer non-legal pro bono and skills-based volunteering opportunities including our IMPACTathon program and Pro Bono Projects program. In 2022, Thomson Reuters employees provided over 14,000 hours in total pro bono support to nonprofit organizations around the world. We also offer a corporate matching gifts program and a payroll giving option for employee donations. In 2022, donations from our employees together with corporate matches totaled nearly US$1.4 million to over 1,400 nonprofits in a dozen different countries.
Finally, we provide some of our products and services free of charge to various not-for-profit organizations to support their initiatives. For example, Thomson Reuters has provided access to our CLEAR product to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children since 2010. We also provide our Westlaw, Practical Law and HighQ products to various not-for-profit organizations.
The Thomson Reuters Foundation
The Thomson Reuters Foundation works to protect media freedom, foster more inclusive economies, and raise awareness of human rights issues.
The Foundation combines its unique media and legal expertise to drive change through a number of services, including its journalists who report from the ground in more than 70 countries. It also offers media development and support to independent journalism, facilitates free legal assistance to NGOs and social enterprises around the world, and hosts opportunities for cross-sector collaboration including its annual human rights forum Trust Conference. Its mission is to inspire collective leadership, empowering people to shape free, fair, and informed societies.
Additional information on the Foundation can be found at www.trust.org.
Governance Practices
Our Board and its committees oversee ESG initiatives, as discussed in the “Corporate Governance Practices” section of this circular. The Corporate Governance Committee of the Board of Directors evaluates our ESG strategy and progress and is updated on a quarterly basis by our management. We remain committed to our values and ethics through our governance practices, which include our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics.
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