Xiaomi

Xiaomi demonstrates strong performance in enhancing accessibility for users with disabilities. Besides committing to developing accessibility features for its products, the company works with users with disabilities to gather their input for product development.  

No evidence was found of the company having leading practices in this area. 

Xiaomi discloses high-level responsibility for cybersecurity and follows industry practices for monitoring and responding to security incidents. The company also publishes a transparency report detailing the government requests it receives for user information. 

Xiaomi shows leading practices in relation to its support for open source standards. For example, the company supports and works with different standards bodies on open source topics. The company also has its own open source projects. Xiaomi has publicly available principles for ethics in AI. 

Xiaomi has an opportunity to support initiatives focused on digital opportunities for women and girls, and to develop a sustained programme to support universal access to digital technologies. In addition, the company should disclose how the economic value it generates is distributed among its stakeholders. 

The company has an opportunity to support more programmes for digital skills development.  

Xiaomi has an opportunity to report the number of data breaches it experiences and to make a high-level commitment to child online safety. 

The company can support tech start-ups through incubators, accelerators and competitions. Moreover, since the company already discloses the total number of employees in its research and development (R&D) team, it can enhance this disclosure to also include a gender breakdown. 

While Xiaomi states that it has incorporated the ten United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) universal principles for human rights into its business, it does not commit to respecting human rights or the ILO core labour rights in a publicly available policy statement. Furthermore, the company does not disclose a process to identify, assess and act on salient human rights risks in its own operations and in its business relationships.  

While Xiaomi has a health and safety management system, it does not formally commit to respecting workers’ health and safety in a publicly available policy statement. Similarly, while the company monitors the health and safety performance of its business relationships, it does not disclose a policy statement where it sets out an expectation for its business relationships to respect health and safety. In relation to workforce diversity, the company provides a breakdown of employees in different employee categories by gender. However, it does not disclose employee breakdowns against any other indicators of diversity, such as age group or ethnicity. Xiaomi lacks any relevant disclosure in relation to living wages, working hours and collective bargaining.   

Xiaomi describes its process to identify bribery and corruption risks, and it includes anti-corruption clauses in its business contracts. However, it 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. Similarly, the company does not disclose any relevant information in reference to lobbying and political engagement, such as its lobbying expenditures.