How we are becoming a more inclusive organization
We believe in the power of an inclusive culture and differing perspectives and experiences to unlock the full potential of the company. This helps attract and retain outstanding talent, develop innovative solutions, and drive better decision-making, supporting long-term performance and better health outcomes for patients.
Over recent years, we’ve focused on building a high-performing and inclusive organisation, delivering a step-change performance alongside creating a culture where differing perspectives and experiences help to unlock the full potential of the company."
Building a high-performing, inclusive organization
Over recent years, we’ve delivered a step-change in performance and we believe in the power of an inclusive culture and differing perspectives and experiences to unlock the full potential of the company. This helps attract and retain outstanding talent, develop innovative solutions, and drive better decision-making, supporting long-term performance and better health outcomes for patients.
We want GSK to be a workplace where our employees can feel a sense of belonging, be themselves, and have their different perspectives and characteristics valued. This helps everyone perform at their best. We measure employee sentiment on inclusion as part of our employee survey, which includes questions on employees feeling welcome and included, feeling able to be themselves, valuing different perspectives, and agreeing on ways of working that enable them to perform at their best. In 2024, our employee engagement was strong at 81% favorable. Our Employee Resource Groups are employee-led communities and are key partners to help us build an inclusive culture.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity, non-discrimination and merit-based decision making in the way we recruit manage and develop our people. Fair and equal pay practices are crucial to create an environment where people feel welcome, valued, included and supported to thrive. We conduct country-based reviews and ensure all markets have clear guidance, tools and support to ensure pay fairness. If unexplained differences are detected, we address them through our compensation processes.
At GSK, we foster an inclusive environment that embraces and celebrates different perspectives and experiences, allowing everyone to be themselves so we can all perform at our best for patients. We hold ourselves and each other accountable, ensuring that respect and inclusivity are at the heart of our company culture."
Leading through action
Ambitious for patients: representative clinical studies
Diseases and medicines can affect people differently depending on their ethnicity, sex, race and age so we need to make sure that our clinical trials include those affected by the disease under study. This supports our business performance by providing healthcare providers and the individuals who are prescribed our medicines and vaccines confidence in the safety and effectiveness of our products. Since 2022, all our phase III clinical trials have representation plans in place before commencing enrolment to reflect the people most impacted by a particular disease.
Now, our focus is on actual enrolment of participants impacted by the disease under study. 88% of phase III trials completing enrolment in 2024 met our enrolment thresholds needed so that trial participants represent the disease epidemiology under study.
Collaborating to drive representative clinical studies
Our Employee Resource Groups
Our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) run events, workshops and initiatives where everyone is welcome to learn and contribute and support members by building thriving communities so that we all can feel safe, valued and welcome.
- AXIS Multi-faith Network
- Cancer Awareness and Resources for Employees
- Career Growth Network
- Crece
- Disability Confidence Network
- Fusion Asian Business Network
- Indigenous People Association
- Mosaic Employee Resource Group
- Veterans Family and Friends
- Spectrum – LGBTQ+ Network
- Workers with Accumulated Valued Experience
- Women’s Leadership Initiative
