A good work environment is central to having sustainable employees, meaning our employees feel they can handle their work situations, maintain a work-life balance that suits them, and experience a supportive, respectful, and inclusive working climate every day at work.

The Work Environment Directive outlines a key framework document for ensuring employee wellbeing, health, and safety while supporting a sustainable work life.

Directive in brief

The Directive on Work Environment is one of the adopted governance documents that constitute important guidelines and rules to govern the work environment topic, manage impacts and opportunities related to employees.

The Directive serves as an important framework for Swedbank Group’s work to ensure having sustainable employees and a sustainable work life. It describes Swedbank’s overall objectives, focus and approach to promote and encourage sustainable employees. It describes how the working conditions should be in our business to prevent poor health and accidents and to create a healthy and sustainable working environment. It also describes how we work in practice to achieve this, as well as the managers’ and employees’ respective responsibilities in efforts relating to a sustainable work environment.

Scope

Swedbank’s Directive on Work Environment applies for Swedbank AB and all subsidiaries and markets in which Swedbank operates in.