Inclusion
We’re better when we reflect the broader world, our customers and the communities in which we operate.
Diverse perspectives help us to create opportunities, innovate and grow.
To help us become more diverse and inclusive, we’re taking action in four key areas:
Fair and inclusive recruiting
Progression of under-represented talent
Building an inclusive culture
Supporting an inclusive society
Disability
Our ambition is to become a leading disability confident employer and a digitally accessible financial services provider.
Disability support
We aim to be a leading “disability smart” organisation as defined by the Business Disability Forum’s global framework.
Mental health initiative
We helped found and launch the Global Business Collaboration for Better Workplace Mental Health. It’s the first global business-led initiative of its kind designed to advocate for and accelerate positive change for mental health in the workplace.
Making banking accessible
We’re removing the barriers people can face in accessing financial services by making our products and services digitally accessible.
Ethnicity
We’re working to increase ethnic diversity across the organisation to reflect the world around us.
Inclusive workplace
We’re the lead sponsor for this research on ethnicity-based marginalisation that will help us and other organisations build a more inclusive workplace culture across the world.
Racial equity standards
We are members of the World Economic Forum’s Partnership for Racial Justice in Business initiative which aims to set new global standards for racial equity in business.
Improving representation
We aim to improve representation within our senior leadership, including to at least double the number of Black employees in senior roles by 2025.
Gender
We aim to have 35% women in senior leadership roles by 2025 – we’re currently at 31.7%.
Creating gender balance
We’re focused on attracting female talent at all levels and reporting on our progress.
Supporting female leaders
Our global Accelerating Female Leaders programme supports women through coaching, development and networking.
Backing entrepreneurs
We partnered with AllBright, the leading global career’s network for women, to create HSBC Roar, a coaching and networking programme for female entrepreneurs.
LGBTQ+
We want to be the financial services employer and bank of choice for the LGBTQ+ community.
Allyship training
We provide global allyship training to create a more inclusive culture for LGBTQ+ colleagues and customers.
Tackling discrimination
We’re a signatory to the UN Standards of Conduct for Business tackling discrimination against lesbian, gay, bi, trans and intersex people.
Award-winning programme
We’re a Stonewall Top Global Employer and won the Global Ally Programme Award in 2020.
Parents and carers
We aim to create a family-friendly environment and support employees with their parental and caring responsibilities.
Inclusive policies
We have inclusive policies that promote work-life balance including parental leave and assistance with childcare and emergency caring responsibilities.
Hybrid working
We’ve introduced hybrid working, providing greater flexibility and choice between home and office working.
Wellbeing support
We’re making sure our people have the wellbeing support they need, including free access to our confidential employee support programme.
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Our diversity data
We’re creating an accurate and transparent view of our workforce so we can effectively target our actions and measure our progress.
Our employee networks
We have eight global employee networks that bring together thousands of employees around the world and help us shape our commitments and actions. The networks cover age, disability and mental health, ethnicity, faith, gender, LGBTQ+, working parents and carers and other communities.
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