Chennai Site dedication of new crèche, also known as “nursery”
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
VPG knows that its business must always support human rights and carefully manage its human capital for its employees, third party contractors and suppliers.
Labor, Health and Safety
Employee involvement and hazard awareness is critical to VPG’s health and safety program success. Forming the foundation of this program is VPG’s identification of health and safety aspects and serious injury, fatality risks which form the basis of our operational controls thorough procedures, checklists and training. Coupled with VPG’s Management of Change, Incident Investigation/Root Cause Analysis and EHS Audit programs, VPG has provided its employees and critical stakeholders with a continuous improvement, health and safety environment.
Health and Safety (days away, restricted and lost time rate)
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
| 0.36 | 0.29 | 0.35 | 0.25 | 0.40 | 0.22 |
Talent Management
VPG has a long heritage of innovation which served as a foundation for its expansion.VPG has facilities and operations in 13 countries, at nearly 30 sits around the globe with more than 2700 employees.
There’s one consistent thread that ties everyting together and ensures our continued success: people.
Employee Demographics and Statistics
As of 11 January 2022
Workforce gender breakdown
| Women as % total workforce | 49.7% |
| Share of women in all management position | 22.3% |
| Share of women in junior management positions | 25.2% |
| Share of women in management (sales) | 2.7% |
| Share of women in STEM related positions | 50.1% |
Workforce age breakdown
| Less than 30 years of age | 16.7% |
| 30 years of age to 50 years of age | 44.5% |
| Greater than 50 years of age | 38.8% |
Hiring
| 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | |
| Total # of new hires | 405 | 781 | 374 | 553 |
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# of positions filled by internal candidates * |
23 | 42 | 4 | 9 |
*Indirect labor only
