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Employee Rights
Plesner makes determined efforts to devel- op all our talented employees and facilitate their career planning. This includes specific endeavors to ensure equal opportunities for men and women to achieve senior manage- ment and partner positions in the company. During the reporting period, the gender distribution in senior managemet, ie the partner group was 20 % women and 80 % men - an underrepresentation of women. During the period, there were no women on the Board of Directors, since there has been no replacement of boardmembers. We have introduced a specific goal to increase the proportion of women on the Board of Direc- tors to 20 % by the end of 2023.
Throughout 2019, we have worked steadily to create more opportunities for our female talents (Read the feature on Women and Career on page 14).
It is our overall goal that Plesner's employ- ees experience an honest and open-minded culture enabling the individual to unfold his or her competencies to the best possible extent regardless of gender. We believe that this goal has been met during the reporting period.
The Environment
For many years, Plesner has strived to limit the company's environmental impact. We focus on constantly reducing our carbon emission, primarily by minimizing energy consumption, using less paper by optimiz- ing the transition to electronic processes and by environmentally correct removal of waste.
During 2019, our intensive focus on energy optimization, including the gradual transi- tion to LED lighting in office spaces, has resulted in a 20 % reduction of electricity consumption. Since Plesner initiated the LED-project in 2015, we have succeeded in reducing our aggregate power consumption by approximately 30 %.
Anti-corruption
Plesner has developed and implemented an Anti-Bribery policy for preventing and coun- tering corruption, bribery and other unethi- cal behavior. Among other initiatives, the policy is translated into action by establish- ing systems and procedures for case man- agement while ensuring effective internal communication. In 2019, we continued to refine our screening program in relation to anti-corruption.
For further description of Plesner's corpo- rate social responsibility, please refer to our CSR policy at www.plesner.com.
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