GEOS Employee Engagement Score Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in % 78 77 Our passionate and inclusive global team is 80 77 77 77 78 Our at the core of our success and our caring and top quartile 75 76 74 75 Engagement performance-oriented culture. With a global team of (global) 71.9 71.5 Score 34,000 colleagues, we strive to create an environment 70 68 68 where everyone feels a sense of belonging. In the norm 65 66 67 (global) 64 past, our efforts were de昀椀ned through the three G’s: generation, gender and global. With the launch 60 of our new corporate strategy, Lead 2030, we are broadening our approach from diversity and inclusion to encompass equity (DEI), welcoming visible and 50 invisible diversity, and focusing on embracing diversity 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 of thought. C ompany Report 2023 implementation examples point inside the top quartile result. The feedback To achieve this, we cultivate an inclusive environment has improved across many dimensions, with the that mirrors the diverse communities we serve and Employee Engagement biggest improvements in feeling encouraged to live in. Every member is respected and valued for suggest improvements, feeling supported to engage their unique qualities and shares the responsibility of Employee engagement is at the heart of our people in social initiatives and in providing 昀氀exibility to creating a brighter future, not just for today but for strategy. We seek feedback from our team members balance personal and professional life. At the same generations to come. regarding engagement and benchmark ourselves time, we still have some dimensions with room for against other leading companies. To improve, we improvement. The true value of GEOS lies in a deep • To transform our DEI vision into actionable positive regularly collect and implement ideas received from our analysis of what our team members tell us and then steps, we have launched a global initiative, DEI team members. Our annual Global Employee Opinion de昀椀ning action plans to address the feedback. diagnostic workshop, to establish a baseline for Survey (GEOS) provides us with valuable information in DEI within each entity at Hilti and empower each ® the areas of engagement, leadership, team, organization, • We participate in the Great Place to Work leadership team to pinpoint DEI blind spots and build strategy, development and inclusion, to name a few. Institute’s assessment in multiple countries around impactful action plans. We aim to be in the top quartile of all companies in the the world. A company’s 昀椀nal ranking score is largely comprehensive database of our external provider with based on feedback received directly from team • We have an active network of 50 engaged, team respect to the GEOS Employee Engagement Score. members. In 2023, we ranked 12th on the “World’s member-led resource groups worldwide known as Best Workplaces™” list, 8th on the “Best Workplaces Own It! These groups serve as a global community • In 2023, 91 percent of our team members in Europe™” list and 17th on the “Best Workplaces and champion our DEI initiatives. participated in the GEOS survey and submitted in Asia™” list. Also, for the 昀椀rst time ever, we almost 15,000 comments, while employee ranked 24th among the “Best Workplaces in Latin • Our yearly employee engagement survey lets us track engagement increased from 77 to 78 percent, America™” list. We were also recognized as one of our progress on inclusion. This year, we are proud to our best result so far. Hence, for the 昀椀rst time we the best employers in several countries. report that we have remained in the top quartile and were able to enter the top quartile at 1 percentage C ompany Report have an inclusion index of 80 percent.