9 Commitments for a Better Tomorrow
Better Tomorrow 2025 is Sodexo's global corporate social responsibility plan, designed to keep us on track in relation to our aspirations as a responsible business.
As a company that promises to improve people’s quality of life, corporate responsibility lies at the core of everything we do. Better Tomorrow 2025 is Sodexo's global corporate social responsibility plan. designed to keep us on track in relation to our aspirations as a responsible business. Following the guidelines of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) launched in 2015, this framework guides our work and orients our progress on some of the world’s most important issues. With nine measurable commitments, Better Tomorrow 2025 focuses our actions in each of our three key roles (an employer, a service provider and a corporate citizen) to ensure a positive impact on individuals, communities and the environment.
Improve the Quality of Life of our employees, safely.
Target: 80% Employee Engagement rate
Provide and encourage our consumers to access healthy lifestyle choices.
Target: 100% of our consumers are offered healthy lifestyle options every day
Fight hunger and malnutrition.
Target: 100 million Stop Hunger beneficiaries
Ensure a diverse workforce and inclusive culture that reflects and enriches the communities we serve.
Target: 100% of our employees work in countries that have gender balance in their management populations
Promote local development and fair, inclusive and sustainable business practices.
Target: 10 billion euro of our business value benefiting SMEs
Drive diversity and inclusion as a catalyst for societal change.
Target: 500,000 women in communities empowered
Foster a culture of environmental responsibility within our workforce and workspaces.
Target: 100% of our employees trained on sustainable practices workspaces
Source responsibly and provide management services that reduce carbon emissions.
Target: 34% reduction of carbon emissions
Champion sustainable resource usage.
Target: 50% reduction in our food waste
How Are We Doing So Far?
As we work hard to reach all these targets, here are some of the ways that we are turning our goals into reality in the Middle East.
Gender Balance
At Sodexo, 55% of the total workforce and 60% of the Board of Directors are female.
Rachid Noujeim, CEO of Sodexo Middle East says,
“Gender balance in the workplace is an essential pillar of Sodexo's diversity and inclusion strategy, not only because it's the right thing to do, but also because a diverse and balanced team performs better and reflects and anticipates the needs of the 100 million customers and consumers we reach every day.”
Stop Hunger
Since 1996, the Sodexo founded Stop Hunger organisation has been working tirelessly to help end the scourge of world hunger - in 2019, 7.9 million meals were provided to those in need, a 63% increase on the previous year. In the Middle East, Sodexo employees contributed a massive 12,000kg of food through fundraising and skilled volunteering in our local communities.
Food Waste
Sodexo’s Waste Watch programme has been rolled out successfully across 41 sites in the middle east, trials have already shown a reduction in waste levels of up to 50%.
Diversity
The Middle East is a melting pot of different cultures with most of the population being expatriates coming from all parts of the world. In the region, our workforce comprises at least 54 nationalities representing and understanding the cultural differences of the consumers we serve.
Access to Healthy Lifestyle Choices
Sodexo now offer a range of plant-based meals at every client site in the Middle East, We are committed to encouraging our consumers to develop good eating habits and healthy lifestyles through awareness campaigns. With the help of our nutritionists, we create balanced, nourishing meals adapted to consumers’ lifestyles and the diversity of their tastes around the world. For example, we share nutritional and allergen information of the meals served and plant-based meals now form a part of our standard offerings.
The Sodexo Middle East team are fully committed to hitting every one of our 9 commitments and where possible, go beyond them. When we say we offer Quality of Life Services, we understand that it needs to go further than our day-to-day roles and extend into the societies in which we operate.
