Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments partners with the Girl Scouts of the USA to encourage more girls to pursue science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and careers. The company also customises its products to meet the needs of people with disabilities. For instance, it has adapted its calculator to cater to individuals with visual impairments.

The company’s Accelerated Student Learning Program provides technological support and virtual sessions for students whose learning was disrupted during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Texas Instruments Foundation also provided funding for STEM educational programmes and opportunities in three school districts in Dallas, where more than one-third of residents live in poverty. Further, the foundation has a programme called Educate Texas that equips teachers with skills to impart STEM-related knowledge.

The company discloses roles and responsibilities for cybersecurity oversight and has a security incident response team. Additionally, it has a high-level commitment to upholding data privacy.

Texas Instruments demonstrates support for open innovation through open source projects and partnerships with universities to support research and training. Its TechMatch initiative supports start-ups through funding, partnerships and access to the company’s design tools and experts. The company also publishes its emissions data and discloses its research and development (R&D) locations.

Limited evidence was found relating to the company’s employment of people with disabilities and whether the company has created an inclusive workplace for them. Although Texas Instruments refers to its economic value distribution, it does not report all the elements needed to demonstrate how value is distributed among stakeholders. Moreover, the company does not disclose its tax payments and employment in its significant markets.

Texas Instruments can enhance support for the development of digital skills and school connectivity. The company should consider carrying out a third-party assessment of the impact of its existing programmes on advancing digital skills and report on its financial and in-kind contributions to these programmes.

Texas Instruments can enhance transparency regarding how it monitors, remedies and reports cybersecurity incidents. It can also provide evidence of its information management security certifications aligned with international standards.

The company can enhance its support for the tech start-up ecosystem and disclose how it applies ethical considerations to its R&D.

Texas Instruments does not have a policy document committing to respect human rights or the ILO core labour rights. It also lacks a commitment expecting its business relationships to respect the ILO core labour rights. Nevertheless, it does have a grievance mechanism for workers to raise human rights concerns and complaints. While the company undertakes human rights focused audits, it does not disclose a sufficient process to identify and assess salient human rights risks in its own operations and in its business relationships. Moreover, the company does not disclose that it systematically takes action to prevent, mitigate and remediate its salient human rights risks.

Texas Instruments publicly commits to respecting worker health and safety, and it places health and safety expectations on its business relationships and monitors their performance. Furthermore, it comprehensively discloses quantitative health and safety information. However, the company lacks relevant disclosure in relation to living wages, working hours and collective bargaining. For example, the company does not specify whether it requires workers to work more than the regular and overtime hours. In relation to workforce diversity, while the company provides a breakdown of employees in different employee categories by gender and race/ethnicity, it does not disclose employee breakdowns for any other indicators of diversity, such as age group.

Texas Instruments does not have a global tax strategy, nor does it disclose income tax payments for its individual tax jurisdictions. The company has anti-bribery and anti-corruption policies, includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its business relationship contracts and has a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns and complaints on the topic. However, it does not disclose the steps it takes to identify and address bribery and corruption. Additionally, Texas Instruments does not disclose its approach to lobbying and political engagement. It does not specify that it does not make political contributions, and it does not disclose its lobbying expenditures.