At DHI, all employees are ambassadors of DHI’s purpose and sustainability efforts. They are the channel through which we influence, educate and co-create with our clients to develop solutions to handle and protect water environments. 

By year end 2022, our workforce amounted to 1,022 employees, full-time equivalent (FTE) (2021: 1,028). The majority of our staff is based in Europe, and the largest concentration of people are at our offices in Hørsholm, Denmark (HQ), Singapore and Shanghai, China.   

Discrimination
DHI strives to be a great place to work for all employees and to have zero discrimination or harassment grievances. DHI’s Code of Conduct reiterates that we do not practise any form of discrimination in hiring and employment practices, including access to training, promotions and rewards on the grounds of race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, physical ability, health condition, political opinion, nationality, social or ethnic origin, union membership or marital status. We continue to focus on using non-discriminatory language in job advertisements and job interviews across our markets and organisation. 

 

Our Non-harassment Policy and guidelines, established in 2020, states that no employee or manager should silently tolerate or witness unwelcome conduct that leads to a hostile work environment. There were no non-compliances or incidents of discrimination reported in 2022 (2021: 0). 

 

In 2023, we aim to increase our focus on inclusive initiatives.

 

Fairness is a cornerstone in ensuring diversity and inclusion. Our compensation packages are internally benchmarked to ensure equal pay for equal work.

Split between men and female

Similar to 2021, the underrepresented gender remains females constituting 38% of the workforce by end 2022.

 

In 2022, the ratio between men and women in the Board of Directors, including employee-elected board members, was 50:50 (unchanged from 2021). Excluding employee-elected board members, the ratio between men and women was 40:60 and meet the Danish Business Authority’s gender diversity requirements.  

 

The ratio between men and women in DHI’s Executive Leadership Team is 67:33. In terms of leadership diversity, we aim to have a gender balance that reflects that of the wider company. Diversity in the broadest sense remains a key focus area for the Board of Directors and Executive Leadership Team.  

 

The gender diversity in other leadership positions (vice presidents, directors, department heads and local management) was 73:27 by year-end 2022 (2021: 74:26). The current gender diversity ratio in other leadership positions is below our target of a gender balance that reflects that of the wider company. We aim to increase the ratio of women in leadership, and in 2022 we intensified efforts to retain and attract diverse talent to DHI. We focus on creating a positive recruitment experience for all parties, and we have started initiatives on internal training on inclusive hiring and unconscious bias in recruitment.