Employee Investment, Ethics, & Culture

We provide clarity around our core values and expectations through programs and standards that help guide every employee’s conduct.

Our Approach

Our culture is rooted in building trust by holding ourselves to the highest standard of ethical conduct. We empower our employees to represent the company and make responsible decisions at every level. This includes investing in our leaders because strong leaders create strong, productive teams rooted in a culture that represents our values.

Our teams are trusted to act with integrity across our business. This includes mitigating risk to our customers by evaluating the impact of climate change on natural disasters which can lead to property and business disruption, ensuring we work with suppliers who share our values, and protecting our customers and partners from cybersecurity threats.

Our Commitment to Ethical Standards

Ethics in Action

We conduct annual integrity training courses for all employees and ensure confidential reporting pathways without retaliation, committing to investigate all reports.

Our Trusted Suppliers

We ensure our supplier partners share our commitment to people and the planet, through our comprehensive Supplier Code of Conduct.

Mitigate Risk

We mitigate risks to our customers by evaluating property hazards and potential business disruption, including those from climate change and cybersecurity threats.

Developing Leaders and Teams

We invest in helping leaders work better so that they and their teams thrive. Strong leaders deliver results, advance their teams, navigate change, support people so they can maximize their potential and care for employees’ wellbeing. With the help of new strategies, systems and tools, leaders can provide customized development across our company.

One of these strategies is the shift to quarterly Impact Coaching for leaders and employees to come together more frequently than a traditional annual performance. These check-ins provide a frequent opportunity to review, to pause, reflect and align on performance and development, ensuring equitable opportunities for growth and development.

“Having leaders schedule these conversations is a subtle shift that helps create a more equitable experience for all employees. These check-ins are key to retention and engagement because it’s what people want and need to thrive at work,” said Nadia Johnson, director of leadership and adaptive teams.

Living Core Values

We adhere to best practices in living and sharing our core values as a company. Learn more:

Activity that is unethical, illegal or not in keeping with our Global Business Standards should be reported. You can report your concern and remain anonymous by filing a report online at integrity.steelcase.com or by calling 1.800.437.6167.

Rating Agencies

Steelcase is highly rated for its corporate ESG performance from global corporate rating agencies and for carbon mitigation and supplier engagement from CDP.