PPG people make it happen

Our people and talent strategies provide the foundation for our team members to thrive, deliver and grow, enabling them to deliver exceptional performance and live our purpose to protect and beautify the world. We are committed to ensuring everyone can bring their whole self to work by being safe, healthy, celebrated, engaged and valued for the diverse talents they bring to PPG.

• Forbes 2021 Best Employers for Women
• Forbes 2021 America's Best Employers
• Perfect score on Human Rights Campaign Foundation Corporate Equality Index for LGBTQ+ workplace equality

In 2021, we kept these objectives in mind as we continued to face significant, global disruptions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, a tightening labor market, changing labor reform and evolving employee expectations on flexible work models. We continued to address and navigate these challenges as part of our efforts, in addition to making progress along our continued journey to enhance and evolve our culture.

Our Journey, The PPG Way

The PPG Way, which includes six tenets around a culture of ownership, empowerment and inclusiveness, remained our north star, providing continuous guidance as we navigated an everchanging environment. Every single day at PPG, these tenets enable, empower and engage employees. Our people and talent strategies provide the across the world to deliver world-class performance.

Whether developing a sustainable solution, solving a customer's challenge, participating in a community engagement project or implementing a new technology for our customers, our employees are demonstrating The PPG Way and making today better than yesterday – every day.

Through 2021, we focused on solving near-term challenges while planning for the long term. A few examples include:

• We developed resources and actions to address the ongoing labor shortage, ensuring improvements to how we hire, onboard and retain our talented employees. We increased the number of sameday hiring events and sourcing tools, as well as streamlined and expedited our pre-employment process to bring employees on board more quickly.
• We launched a new hybrid work model. Created through robust employee input and our goal to create a modern work experience, this model enables managers and employees to balance their personal lives and job responsibilities.
• We built out areas of expertise and filled key leadership positions focused on our comprehensive talent strategy, leadership capability and development, and diversity, equity & inclusion efforts.
• We launched a 'One PPG' sales framework to ensure we hire, train, promote and reward our sales team consistently.
• We integrated five acquisitions, bringing new perspectives, talent and opportunities to the organization.

Although these are significant milestones, they are only a few of the many activities we prioritize in order to continue enhancing employee engagement, belonging, performance and leadership development. We believe that supporting all employees with modern, world-class human resources technology and operations, building strategic capability and creating the best place to work will be the difference in their ability to make meaningful contributions and fulfill their potential.

By fostering inclusiveness, welcoming diverse perspectives and empowering employees from all walks of life, PPG becomes more innovative, productive and competitive. Learn more about our commitment in the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion report.