WIPRO CHAMPIONS CULTURAL CHANGE FOR WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT

WIPRO CHAMPIONS CULTURAL CHANGE FOR WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT

Wipro Limited is a leading global information technology, consulting, and business process services company across 66 countries worldwide, employing 240,000+ people representing 139 diverse nationalities. For over 75 years, Wipro has delivered value to its customers and helped communities thrive in the digital world. Wipro has marked its presence in various sectors, including banking, financial services and insurance, consumer, health and technology. Wipro is passionate about enabling customer success and focuses on transforming customer journeys through its business solutions and digital and technology capabilities. Its unwavering commitment to service quality and consistent execution excellence makes Wipro the ‘Orchestrator of Choice’ for its customers.

Ethics, honesty, and fairness drive the unyielding integrity that forms the core of Wipro’s business. Wipro is the flag bearer of gender equality and nurtures an inclusive and progressive environment for customers, employees, and vendors. The organisation fosters diversity across the spectrum by hosting various inclusion and diversity programmes, strongly focusing on attracting, developing, and retaining a diverse mix of talent to maximise business value. Sustainability is central to Wipro’s business model. The company is deeply committed to contributing toward, and enabling, a sustainable future for the planet and its inhabitants.

TAKING PRIDE IN ACHIEVING MILESTONES

Uncompromising integrity in every action, treating people with respect and fairness, and demonstrating ecological sensitivity through sustained effort are the premises that reflect our values. Declared as an ‘Exemplar of Inclusion’ and ‘One of the 100 Best Companies for Women in India’ in 2021 by the Working Mother and Avtar Best Companies for Women in India, Wipro has been successful in building a highly inclusive workplace for employees.

Wipro has launched the 4M (Model, Method, Machinery, and Mindset) delivery framework, an intelligent, adaptive, and boundaryless operating model. This framework enables Wipro’s employees to deliver business excellence, demonstrating resilience and constant learning transparently and securely.

Wipro has launched Wipro FullStride Cloud Services integrated cloud solutions, investing $1-billion in cloud technologies, capabilities, and acquisitions to support customers over the next three years.

The organisation extended its capabilities by acquiring Capco, a business and technology management consultancy firm, emerging as one of the most significant end-to-end consulting, cloud, digital, and IT transformation service providers.

WIPRO’S SUSTAINED COMMITMENT TO AFRICA

With over 1000 employees and 73.5% local hires, Wipro has committed to supporting African enterprises and accelerating their digital transformation since 2007. Headquartered in Johannesburg, the company has created a strong presence in the African market through its association with market-leading brands. Wipro has also fostered local capabilities around business processes, technology, and project management through its multiple initiatives. In association with AWS Africa (Cape Town), Wipro provides a repository of industry-specific technology solutions empowering customers to derive significant benefits from the ‘As-a-Service’ economy and make them future-ready. A deep understanding of the African market dynamics combined with global operational excellence enables Wipro to develop and implement highly innovative solutions that help customers every day.

A collaborative culture drives Wipro, bringing together employees, customers, partners, and the African community.

The company has enabled localisation through skill development and offshoring, combined with global expertise, flawless execution, and local skill enhancement. The company has also made strategic investments in various local community initiatives and programmes to build a strong local talent pool with diverse capabilities. These programmes include:

• Adopt a School - Nelson Mandela Foundation

• GIBS Future CIO Program

• Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation

• Industrial Development Corporation

• YES initiative

Wipro has scored as a level 2 contributor of Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) on the ICT Charter and is committed to uplifting African society and promoting development. The organisation has launched various social initiatives under Wipro Siyapha and invested over ZAR 39-million to educate and develop the skills of the local population. Wipro offers a Graduate Internship Program to train interns over a three-month extended classroom training and a three-month live project training. Over 230 people have benefitted from this programme, and over 75% have found employment. In 2021, Wipro partnered with Fairways Primary School in Johannesburg to sponsor the IT equipment for an e-lab. This computer literacy project aims to sharpen skills and improve the students’ computer knowledge.

Wipro holds a 360-degree relationship with partners and follows the ‘Wipro Winning Together’ approach driven by common business objectives.

The strategic partnerships at Wipro offer mutual business growth opportunities and thought leadership around future technologies.

Wipro plans to expand its presence in Africa over the next two years and continue to make strategic investments to sustain local commitment and deliver unparalleled value to the customers.

CELEBRATING WOMEN EMPOWERMENT AT WIPRO

The Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index 2022 featured Wipro for the third consecutive year, and the India Workplace Equality Index (IWEI) 2021 recognised us as a Gold Employer.

In addition, Wipro has been a signatory to the United Nations Women Empowerment Principles since 2012, fostering women empowerment and gender equality in the workplace.

Wipro aims to promote progress across genders by listening to and considering inputs from diverse voices and raising an equitable, humane and sustainable society. Embracing all forms of differences and promoting progress across genders, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities and racial and ethnic identities make Wipro an employer of choice.

Wipro has successfully built an inclusive environment around the three themes of Exposure, Flexibility, and Empowerment. The company takes immense pride in identifying a 36.2% female workforce. Wipro celebrates and upholds women empowerment at all levels across the organisation through the following key initiatives:

Women Of Wipro (WOW): The organisation demonstrated its commitment to women’s empowerment early on by formally launching the “Women of Wipro” (WOW) programme as far back as 2008. The WOW initiatives facilitate equal career opportunities and greater business participation from women within the organisation. Approximately 150+ mothers have benefitted from WOW Mom initiatives in availing HR compensation and benefits. The women-friendly policies crafted by the organisation under WOW enabled Wipro’s women executives to realise their career ambitions at various life stages while balancing personal commitments.

The segmented approach toward gender diversity allows the organisation to create a non-discriminatory, multi-faceted, and multiskilled workplace.

Refresh: With the ‘Refresh’ programme, Wipro aims to empower working mothers in the organisation returning from maternity breaks by reskilling and building capabilities in technical and behavioural aspects. This programme provides a smooth transition platform back into the workplace for new mothers by deploying them to relevant projects and engaging them continuously.

Begin Again: Begin Again is a robust initiative for women seeking to restart their career after a break taken to carry out motherhood and elderly care responsibilities, travel, or just a sabbatical. The second career programme offered by Wipro empowers women to accomplish their career ambitions and dreams after fulfilling their personal duties.

Enrich: Enrich is a year-long sponsorship program for Wipro’s senior women leaders. This programme connects aspiring protégés with senior leaders who provide direction and strategic guidance focusing on career development and advancement.

Women in Business: Under this programme, Wipro engages women in executive roles from its community of partners and customers.

WeQual partnership: Wipro takes pride in its global partnership with WeQual, an initiative that aims to promote gender equality in the workplace and enhances diversity in the most prominent companies worldwide.

Wipro is an equal opportunity employer that advocates gender diversity by encouraging supplier diversity. The company boasts a 25.6% gender diversity ratio for suppliers’ staff deployed at its facilities.

DRIVING AN ETHICAL AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURE Wipro is cognisant of the world’s current environmental challenges and the dire need for a greater focus on ecological sustainability. The company also believes that an organisation’s role must extend beyond its corporate boundaries to address

sustainability challenges. The ethics of equity, the ethos of justice, the need for diversity, and social sensitivity drives the organisation’s sustainability approach. Wipro works with stakeholders on energy, water, climate change, education, and e-waste as part of its corporate social responsibility.

Wipro’s commitment to a sustainable and resilient future is evident in its pledge to reduce 55% greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and further to zero by 2040, thus contributing to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions targets. Focused on preserving the biodiversity in its campuses and local communities, the organisation has significantly reduced the ecological footprint of its operations in areas including energy and carbon, water, waste, and pollution management.

Wipro has received global appreciation for its passion for aligning its business mandate with ethical responsibility. With decades of experience as a sustainability leader, Wipro partners with other organisations to forge a more sustainable future. The company helps organisations repurpose in the following ways:

Sustainability assessment: Wipro assists organisations in creating sustainable solutions