Logitech

Logitech supports digital opportunities for girls by funding Girls Who Code, a non-profit that teaches coding skills to young women. Moreover, the company incorporates accessibility features into its products to accommodate users with disabilities and actively seeks feedback from the disability community to make its products more accessible. It also partners with the US non-profit AbleGamers to help people with disabilities combat social isolation, join inclusive communities and improve their quality of life through play.

Logitech supports basic digital skills development through its contribution to Girls Who Code and through its brand Ultimate Ears’ contribution to the non-profit Black Girls CODE.

Logitech demonstrates senior-level oversight of cybersecurity and discloses data breaches.

Logitech has a high-level commitment to open source standards and has several open source projects. The company’s initiative Logitech Start-up Partner organises a competition for start-ups. The company also supports other initiatives that help start-ups founded by persons from underrepresented groups. Additionally, Logitech supports and uses the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a framework to measure its own goals and progress. Furthermore, it reports the number of women in tech roles at the company.

Logitech can report the number of people with disabilities working at the company and how it creates an inclusive workplace for them. Furthermore, the company can disclose how the economic value it generates is distributed among stakeholders, as well as the income taxes it pays and its employment in its main markets.

Logitech has an opportunity to support initiatives for intermediate and technical digital skills development and school connectivity.

The company should report on its information security management. While it considers data privacy to be a material topic, there is no evidence of the company having a group privacy policy. Furthermore, as a digital company whose products are used by young people, Logitech should make a high-level commitment to child online safety.

Logitech has the opportunity to further its commitment to open source standards by participating in standards bodies. It can also contribute to research on sustainability issues. Additionally, the company can disclose the ethical principles it follows in its research and development (R&D) activities.

Logitech commits to respecting human rights in a publicly available policy document. However, the company’s commitment to respect the ILO core labour rights can be stronger. For example, the company does not provide a policy statement committing to respect the rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining. Logitech has a grievance mechanism accessible to both workers and external stakeholders to raise human rights concerns and complaints. The company has also included human rights issues in its materiality assessment. However, it does not disclose a process to identify, assess and act on salient human rights risks associated with its own operations and with its business relationships. Moreover, the company describes the various stakeholders it engages with in general. But it does not specify whether it engages with stakeholders whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities.

Logitech publicly commits to respecting worker health and safety and expects its business relationships to do the same. The company also discloses information on its workforce diversity for four indicators of diversity, including age, gender, race and ethnicity. Logitech does not disclose a policy commitment stating that it does not require workers to work more than the regular and overtime hours, and it is not explicit in requiring its business relationships to make this commitment. However, it does state that all overtime work must be consensual and be paid at a premium rate. Furthermore, the company provides no relevant evidence in relation to paying its workers a living wage or on the proportion of its global workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements. Logitech does not have a public commitment towards gender equality and women’s empowerment, but the company has more than 30% women on its board.

Logitech 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 global tax strategy, but it does not disclose its income tax payments in individual tax jurisdictions.