ISS has hired over 1,000 refugees for the business since beginning our partnership with Tent in 2022. We remain on track to reach our goals of employing at least 2,000 refugees across our North American and European operations by the end of 2025.
The progress so far highlights ISS’ continued commitment to providing equal access to opportunities for under-represented and households from all socio-economic backgrounds.
Tent, a non-profit company that started in 2016, connects refugees with work opportunities in their new locations and now partners with over 400 businesses including ISS. Refugees are not only given job opportunities but also training and mentoring to integrate them into their communities.
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We believe that as an organisation that for nearly 125 years has been helping people on their path to find work, we have a critical role to play in helping refugees to find sustainable work. It helps them to integrate into communities and find some comfort, care and safety.
Margot Slattery, Head of Group Diversity & Inclusion
ISS continues to strive to create an environment where our placemakers feel valued and empowered and are motivated to stay for a long time. The Education for All programme is one of the ways we try and achieve this and we have reduced attrition in India from 65% in 2023 to 47% in 2024, highlighting the growing satisfaction that our placemakers have about working for ISS.
One of the placemakers who has been with us for almost 25 years and applied to complete 12th grade education through ISS is Sampatti Chavan. He has faced numerous significant challenges in his personal life but ISS now runs across his family and he wishes to continue working with us for the rest of his career. Read his fully story here.