Community

Fostering a diverse, inclusive and engaged workforce, and building skills for the future

Community is crucial. We aim to accelerate a diverse, inclusive and engaged workforce and utilise our technology expertise to help our communities thrive in an increasingly digital world.

Talent attraction
and development

Our leadership and training opportunities, alongside initiatives to improve employee engagement are crucial for attracting and developing our people.

Recently, we launched an Accredited Leadership Diploma for senior managers, a Launch into Management programme for new and inspiring leaders and a new Performance Framework for appraisal and feedback opportunities.

“Peakon”, our employee listening tool, helps us to continually evaluate the employee experience and monitor wellbeing. Through Peakon, our people can confidentially share their views, while our managers and leaders can engage and plan improvements based on the insights shared.

Diversity and inclusion

In addition to diversifying our Board of Directors, we have introduced ethnic diversity and gender targets for our senior management this year. We are proud of our strong minority groups and communities across the business, including Women in Technology and Pride at Ocado and are delighted to be accredited as a supportive employer for Armed Services Veterans.

Following an audit and benchmarking process conducted in partnership with external consultancy group EY, we achieved the UK National Equality Standard certification in FY23, showing improved performance against 35 competencies.

Read more about our approach to diversity and inclusion and explore our gender pay gap report.

Wellbeing

Our Wellbeing Programme provides proactive and reactive support to our people, including counselling and employee assistance.

In 2022 we launched our Global Mental Wellbeing Champions programme. These are volunteers from across the organisation who are trained to provide safe, confidential, peer-to-peer support. Recently, we designed a range of events and activities for Mental Health Awareness Week to drive visibility across the business.

Another recent initiative is our newly formed Menopause and Fertility Policy, which was designed by leveraging an internal working group of global employees across both Technology Solutions and Logistics.

Community engagement

We are committed to empowering our local communities - sharing our skills and capabilities with schools, charities and organisations to create future opportunities in the world of technology.

Code for Life

Code for Life, a not-for-profit, free coding and teaching resource from Ocado Group, empowering over 700,000 users since its inception. The initiative supports students in learning computing skills globally, and over 15,000 schools have registered.

Ocado Group's dedicated team, supported by volunteers, have built engaging games, created lesson plans and resources, onboarded teachers and learners, delivered career talks and attended career fairs and events - inspiring the next generation of technologists.
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Read the article here or download or download our 2023 impact report to find out more about how our Code for Life initiative is enabling coding skills for the future.