Capgemini

Capgemini follows best practice by promoting programmes that contribute to the affordability of digital technologies. It has a science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) initiative for teenage girls in Germany with mentoring from Capgemini female staff. Capgemini also shows leading practices in its support for people with disabilities with a clear commitment to universal design standards, products that accommodate users with disabilities and disclosure of statistics on its employment of people with disabilities.

Through its Digital Literacy programme, Capgemini promotes education on basic digital skills for people with disabilities. The company also sponsors Digital Academies, which provide technical digital skills training to vulnerable groups in eight different countries. Additionally, the company has partnered with a local non-governmental organisation in Guatemala to build a computer lab in an elementary school.

The company meets industry norms by assigning responsibility for cybersecurity at the senior level as well as having a security incident response team and information security management certification. The company also reports data breaches and places high importance on data privacy.

Capgemini shows its strongest performance in the area of innovation. The company collaborates with universities on open source projects as well as publishes open data. Furthermore, the company promotes open innovation through venture capital funds. In relation to sustainability, Capgemini publishes a separate environment report disclosing a complete and transparent profile of its emissions data and electricity use. Moreover, the company discloses its ethical artificial intelligence (AI) framework.

Capgemini can provide third-party impact assessments for its existing programmes. It can also demonstrate how it distributes the wealth it creates among its stakeholders, as well as the taxes it pays and its employment in its main markets of operation.

Although Capgemini has a wide array of programmes supporting basic digital skills development, the company can also consider initiatives for teaching intermediate digital skills. Furthermore, the company can conduct third-party impact assessments for its existing digital skills programmes.

Capgemini can increase transparency around its cybersecurity practices by publishing a transparency report detailing government requests it receives for information. Additionally, the company can disclose its group privacy policy.

The company can publicly commit to open source standards. Furthermore, it can strengthen its support for the tech innovation ecosystem by sponsoring start-ups, particularly those founded by people from underrepresented groups. Capgemini can also demonstrate how it supports diversity by disclosing the number of women in its research and development (R&D) teams.

Capgemini has a commitment to respect human rights and the ILO core labour rights. Furthermore, it describes the processes by which it identifies human rights risks. However, the company could disclose whether it has grievance mechanisms for employees and all external stakeholders to raise human right concerns. Additionally, the company could disclose how it identifies and engages with stakeholders whose human rights could be at risk from the company’s operations.

Capgemini commits to worker health and safety and places the same expectation on its business relationships. The company also commits to promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment and discloses that 40% of its board members are women. Capgemini also discloses the breakdown of its workforce by gender for different employee categories. However, the company could disclose more information around topics such as collective bargaining agreements and working hours.

Capgemini has a public policy prohibiting bribery and corruption. Moreover, the company includes anti-corruption and anti-bribery clauses in its business relationship contracts. Capgemini also has a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns regarding bribery and corruption. However, the company could disclose more information on its global tax strategy and the taxes it pays in individual tax jurisdictions.