Lenovo

Lenovo offers discounts on its equipment to medical professionals, students, teachers and senior citizens. The company supports an initiative providing women and girls from disadvantaged groups with access to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education. Moreover, Lenovo commits to integrating accessible design principles in its products and demonstrates leading practice in improving accessibility for users with disabilities. This includes following internationally recognised design principles, incorporating a variety of assistive technologies in its products, and seeking feedback from people with disabilities to help improve product design. The company also discloses its community investments.

Lenovo’s EdVision initiative teaches digital skills to students in the Philippines. Additionally, the company provides grants for individuals to learn tech skills. Lenovo supports school connectivity through its hardware donations all over the world.

Lenovo meets industry norms in monitoring, responding to and reporting on cybersecurity incidents. The company discloses information about its security incident response team. It also has an information management certificate and a privacy statement applicable at the group level.

Lenovo has a range of open source code available in its knowledge base on its website. The company supports the tech start-up ecosystem through its venture capital fund. It also demonstrates best practice in inclusive research and development (R&D) by reporting how many women it employs in tech roles and the locations of its R&D facilities.

Lenovo has an opportunity to improve disclosures regarding its financial support and participation numbers for its digital access initiatives. It can also disclose how the economic value it generates is distributed among stakeholders as well as the taxes it pays and employment in its main markets.

Lenovo has an opportunity to introduce initiatives that aim to support basic digital skills development. It can also report participation and financial metrics for the skills development initiatives it supports.

Lenovo has an opportunity to disclose how it manages group responsibility for cybersecurity, including making a standalone security document publicly available. It can also make a high-level commitment to cybersecurity. As a digital company whose products are used by young people, the company should make a high-level commitment to child online safety. The company can also enhance transparency by reporting the number of data breaches it experiences and making its information security management certificate publicly available.

The company has an opportunity to reinforce its support for open source software and standards through a high-level commitment. There is also scope for the company to collaborate with researchers on sustainability issues and to support social entrepreneurship. Additionally, Lenovo can disclose how it incorporates ethics in its R&D activities.

Lenovo has a publicly available policy commitment to respect human rights. It discloses that it performs human rights due diligence across its value chain; however, no evidence was found that the company describes the process it uses to identify its human rights risks and impacts. Lenovo has a grievance mechanism accessible to both workers and external stakeholders to raise human rights concerns and complaints.

Lenovo publicly commits to respecting worker health and safety in a policy statement. It also places health and safety requirements on its business relationships. However, the company makes no public statement that it does not require workers to work more than regular and overtime hours. It does not disclose the percentage of its workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements and also provides no relevant evidence in relation to whether it pays its workers a living wage. Lenovo does, however, have time-bound targets regarding women’s empowerment and gender equality. The company also discloses a breakdown of employees in different employee categories by gender and race/ethnicity.

Lenovo does not disclose any relevant information in relation to tax, such as a global tax strategy or its income tax payments in individual tax jurisdictions. The company has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption, and it includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its business relationship contracts. The company also has a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns on the topic. However, the company can provide information on the process it uses to identify its bribery and corruption risks and impacts. Lenovo discloses its approach to lobbying and political engagement. But it has no public statement indicating that it does not make political contributions, and it does not disclose its lobbying expenditures.