Sara Lee’s mission “to simply delight you…everyday” includes retaining, developing and attracting a diverse workforce and leadership team to drive business results. We will create and sustain a global culture of inclusion where diverse talent flourishes and diverse ideas and perspectives thrive. We will aggressively provide meaningful responsibility and development opportunities to our employees worldwide.
Diverse Slates for Recruiting
While Sara Lee does not support a quota system; we do require that all slates for open positions include diverse candidates (e.g., women and people of color). Providing diverse slates enables us to assess a broad range of candidates for all open positions. This has been implemented for the past 3 years.
- 29.71% female employees and 36.16% minority employees (Sara Lee North America, February 2008)
- Minority businesses: Our North America “spend” with female / minority owned businesses is approximately 5%. Spend is defined in 2 ways; the customer spend with Sara Lee for our products and Sara Lee spend with our diverse supply base.
