Social Responsibility

A Sustainable World

More than 70 years ago, our business was founded on the principle of Doing Well by Doing Good - delivering a profit to our shareholders while contributing to society. Fast forward to today and this dual purpose still holds true:

Our Plan

Our Sustainability Plan is built around learnability and employability: about how we help people nurture the desire and ability to develop in-demand skills to be employable for the long-term.

Ready to Work | Skilling Up | Integrating and Including

Our Perspective

We believe businesses have a responsibility to contribute to a sustainable future for work, for workers and for the world. We are driven to lead by example, and we are guided in everything we do by our Values, our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics and the UN Global Compact Principles and Sustainable Development Goals. This is how we attract and retain the best talent and how we create a culture of conscious inclusion that fosters innovation, enables high performance and allows everyone to achieve their full potential.

Gold EcoVadis 2022

ManpowerGroup was awarded the EcoVadis Gold award on the EcoVadis platform for assessing the ethical, social and environmental standards of service providers. EcoVadis is a global leader in this area. The EcoVadis audit analysis methodology is based on international standards for sustainable development, in particular the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the United Nations Global Compact, the international labor standards of the International Labor Office and the ISO 26000 standard. It is based on 21 criteria, divided into 4 themes: Environment, Human Resources Practices, Human Rights, Business Ethics and Governance, and Responsible Purchasing. The global average of companies rated by EcoVadis is 42.4. ManpowerGroup is well above this average. We are in the top 5% of companies worldwide and in the top 1% of companies in the human resources sector."

Most Ethical Companies 2026

ManpowerGroup has been named in the Ethisphere Institute's 2026 ranking for the 17th consecutive year. The Ethisphere Institute establishes a list of the most ethical companies based on an analysis of best practices in terms of ethics, reputation, social responsibility and interactions with the brand in accordance with the expectations of its customers and external service providers.

ManpowerGroup: Supporter of Advance

ManpowerGroup is a supporter of Advance, an association which aims to promote the placing of women in decision-making positions in Switzerland.