Workforce
When employees feel valued and empowered, they generate a thriving workplace culture. Investing in employee development and wellbeing isn’t just good ethics — it’s also smart business.
Acting Responsibly
At Qualcomm, conducting our business in an ethical way is our imperative.
How we are acting responsibly.
We are committed to our values of winning together, achieving excellence, making the impossible inevitable, and doing the right thing. This last value means we achieve excellence in the right way, in an ethical manner, and in compliance with the law. Through ethical challenges, our Code of Business Conduct guides us, helping us act with integrity — that’s The Qualcomm Way.
We strive to support our employees in and out of the workplace. We regularly engage with them to understand what they care about most. We’re committed to supporting their development and growth, health and safety, and overall wellbeing in ways that matter to them and show we care.
Business Integrity
We strive to conduct business responsibly with uncompromising integrity and expect the same from our business partners.
Ethical Governance
Through four decades of innovation, we have continued to create technologies that revolutionize the way people live, work, and connect. But it is how we make this possible that defines us.
Current focus areas where we act responsibly.
Employee Engagement
That’s why we maintain a fair, forward-thinking, and rewarding workplace, drawing top talent from diverse backgrounds around the world and giving employees incentives and support to think forward.
Training and Development
We’re constantly creating new ways to help our people excel and advance while creating new learning opportunities to enrich the employee experience. Supporting our people to learn and grow strengthens our Company and our power to invent a better world.
Health and Safety
We’re constantly creating new ways to help our people excel and advance while creating new learning opportunities to enrich the employee experience. Supporting our people to learn and grow strengthens our Company and our power to invent a better world.
Human Rights
As a signatory of the United Nations Global Compact we are committed to upholding human rights and equality within our suppliers' and our own operations.
Privacy and Cybersecurity
In our Company, in our products, and in the mobile industry, we focus on the proper handling of data to responsibly process personal data and make data more secure.
Supply Chain Management
As a full member of the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) we have adopted the RBA Code of Conduct. We also require our suppliers to act in accordance with the RBA Code of Conduct as our Supplier Code of Conduct.
○ All of our primary semiconductor manufacturing suppliers provide us with data on their greenhouse gas emissions and water use.
○ All of our direct semiconductors suppliers are required to have an ISO14001-certified environmental management system.
Ethics and Governance
We’re committed to acting ethically and respecting our customers, business partners, and each other.
Public Policy and Regulation
We engage in constructive and responsible participation in the political process. We meet regularly with policymakers globally to discuss relevant public policy issues and engage with numerous public policy organizations. We abide by all applicable laws and regulations regarding political contributions and expenditures. Our contributions are subject to approval of our senior management and oversight by the Governance Committee of our Board of Directors.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Creating a Company that reflects the world.
Our approach to creating a positive impact on our workplace culture is to celebrate diversity among our employees and recognize that our varied backgrounds, experiences and ideas are critical to our success.
Employee Engagement
Ingenuity flourishes where people are valued.
That’s why we maintain a fair, progressive and rewarding workplace, drawing top talent from diverse backgrounds around the world and giving employees incentives and support to think forward.
TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
Helping our people to excel and advance.
We’re constantly creating new ways to help our people excel and advance while creating new learning opportunities to enrich the employee experience. Supporting our people to learn and grow strengthens our Company and our power to invent a better world.
HEALTH AND SAFETY
Workplace health and safety is one of Qualcomm’s highest priorities.
Workplace health and safety is one of Qualcomm’s highest priorities. We execute a complete environment, health and safety (EHS) management and assurance process to ensure we fully protect our employees, contractors and others while providing a safe and healthy working environment.
Human Rights
Respect for human rights is part of everything we do.
As a signatory of the United Nations Global Compact we are committed to upholding human rights and equality within our suppliers' and our own operations.
Privacy and Cybersecurity
Improving data protection and security across the mobile ecosystem.
In our Company, in our products, and in the mobile industry, we focus on the proper handling of data to responsibly process personal data and make data more secure.
Supply Chain Management
Achieving meaningful sustainability requires us to include our suppliers in our efforts.
As a member of the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA), we have adopted the RBA Code of Conduct and expect all our suppliers to act in accordance with this Code.
- All of our primary semiconductor manufacturing suppliers provide us with data on their greenhouse gas emissions and water use.
- All of our direct semiconductors suppliers are required to have an ISO14001-certified environmental management system.
Conflict Free Minerals
We support industry-wide efforts to drive transparency in the supply chain.
Qualcomm is aware of concerns that minerals mined in conflict areas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries may be making their way into the electronics industry supply chain and may be fueling human rights violations and environmental degradation in the region. Qualcomm strives to provide DRC conflict free products. We expect our suppliers to obtain materials from environmentally and socially responsible sources, including conflict free sources within the DRC and adjoining countries.
Ethics and Governance
Doing business The Qualcomm Way.
We’re committed to acting ethically and respecting our customers, business partners, and each other.
