We rely on our people – their enthusiasm, their talent, their commitment – to maintain and build on the success of our business, even more so in today’s competitive market. We depend on our people to deliver excellent service to our customers. We believe that the better experience our people have at Vodafone, the better service they will give our customers.
Vodafone Group employs approximately 71,000 people around the world.* We want to enhance our reputation as an employer that provides excellent development opportunities, equipping employees with the skills and experience they need to help Vodafone compete successfully.
We aim to ensure that all our working environments are inclusive, safe, promote wellbeing, treat people with respect, engage employees, and offer attractive incentives and opportunities.
Vodafone People Strategy
The Vodafone People Strategy sets out a clear statement of our commitments to employees and our expectations of them in six key areas.
This strategy, together with our Group employment policies, sets out a global framework for employee engagement. We are committed to upholding human rights and our employee policies are consistent with the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Labour Organization’s Core Conventions.
Our People Strategy applies across the Group, but local operating companies have the flexibility to adapt their human resource policies and practices to suit local cultural differences and legal requirements. We are implementing a Group-wide project that will enable all our local operating companies to share a common human resources system, core processes and operating model.
* This figure is the 100% closing headcount in majority owned entities at 31 March 2008. It includes Vodafone Essar in India, acquired in May 2007. Vodafone Essar is not included in performance data for 2007/08 but will be included from 2008/09.