Work life solutions

Flexible Work Solution (FWS) is a key component of our work-life effectiveness strategy, ultimately driving higher performance, creating competitive talent advantage, and most importantly ensuring that employees achieve work-life synergy and bring their best self to work, we believe flexible workdays, hours, and/or locations may be an option for some employees.

Eaton strives to support new mothers in adapting to the challenges of early child care through extending benefits of a combination of extended leaves of absence, part time working and flexibility in working hours or work from home on a temporary basis, in addition to the entitled 26 weeks of paid leave.

To ensure the mental health of the employees, we provide the services of an external agency, which consists of a team of trained counselors and psychologists to reach out "confidentially" for personal stressful situations and get expert guidance for themselves or their dependents.

The adoption policy at Eaton India is extended to all full-time employees. It addresses the governance and guiding principles related to adoption benefits. It supports the employees in covering the expenses and provides paid time off in addition to the paid leaves for adoption of a child under the age of 18 years. An employee can adopt a maximum of two children. The adopted child also becomes eligible under local Mediclaim Policy. A paid leave of, up to 12 weeks to female employees and Single parent, 5 days for male employees is granted.

The Office of Ombuds provides a completely confidential and off-the-record resource to address work related queries and concerns for employees, customers and suppliers. Ombuds helps to determine the nature and extent of a concern, the pros and cons of different options to address it and an approach for taking it forward. The decision to take action through appropriate reporting channels (such as Line Management, Human Resources or Eaton's Global Ethics Office) is left up to the individual. The Ombuds will take action only if express permission is given.

Ethics Office is a reinforcement of Eaton's ethics and compliance program. It primarily supports managers in delivering effective, relevant and thoughtful ethics training and communications to employees and provides anonymous and confidential reporting channels for employees and third parties to raise concerns and to report misconduct and violations of law, policies or Eaton's Code of Ethics.

Eaton's Global Wellness program was launched in APAC region in July 2010 to foster a healthy and happy workforce across its entities. Each Eaton entity in India continually ensures implementation of this ongoing program through various events/programs, specific Wellness Councils take ownership to drive these initiatives. These activities are in alignment with Eaton's five pillars of wellness – Be Tobacco Free, Manage Stress, Get Fit, Eat Healthy and Know Your Numbers. An annual health checkup is organized across all Eaton locations in India to demonstrate our commitment to a healthy workforce.

Eaton India offers Flexible Benefits that have been designed to allow the employee to customize their benefits package. There are a range of benefits available; some that the Company provides as a minimum benefit and some that are available in addition or with enhancements. The medical benefits offered under this program allow for coverage of the following dependents – spouse, children, parents and parents-in-law. The medical plan cost depends on coverage level and family definition for each plan. Every year, you have the opportunity to change your benefit choices to suit your changing priorities in the coming year, per the applicable Flex rules.

Eaton India has an Inclusion and Diversity (I&D) Council or a Women's Council at each entity. Women Councils formed for and by the female workforce and chaired by an external legal counsel to address concerns specific to the location. While the ownership is localized, the programs are aligned with the organizational I&D goals through support and sponsorship from the Inclusion ERGs (Eaton Resource Groups).

Inclusion ERGs were launched in 2014. They are open to all employees. They are a great way for employees to share different perspectives and provide growth and development opportunities. Inclusion ERGs align with business objectives and provide networking opportunities through ERG SharePoint which acts as an online collaboration forum to facilitate discussions, share success stories through blogs and announce schedules for events, etc. They also boost professional development, mentoring and competency/skills refinement for employees who actively participate in them.

ERG members and leaders also extend support in launching key business projects such as Second Career for Women by acting as a catalyst in driving initiatives across businesses. Members come together each year to organize a 3 day event, Samavesh, that comprises speaker sessions, fun activities such as treasure hunt and photography event centered around the theme of inclusion and diversity.

At Eaton we believe that we achieve excellence because of our people, thus, Eaton is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all. It is embedded Code of Ethics to respect diversity and fair employment practices. The organization is committed to respecting a culturally diverse workforce through practices that provide equal access and fair treatment to all employees on the basis of merit. There is zero tolerance towards harassment or discrimination in the workplace.

As part of talent management and organizational effectiveness, we organize annual Talent Day and Early Talent Day. These programs provide an opportunity for high performers to gain visibility and interact with senior leadership / India Leadership team to understand their development needs and facilitate accelerated career coaching. The day long programs focus on one-on-one interactions with leadership and ensure right mix of diversity population.

Mentoring for our diverse workforce by senior executives has been launched. We hand-picked few of our high potential female employees to be mentored by our leadership team. The feedback received regarding effectiveness of the program is now being leveraged in designing the roll out plan

In line with our commitment to promoting women leadership development in the organization, we host round tables in association with WILL (Women in Leadership) Forum on topics that will bring together senior women executives in leadership positions from across corporate India for an open dialogue on their aspirations, opportunities, nurturing mind-sets, mentoring and harnessing the rewards of collective thinking for improving the workplace in the coming years.

In addition, Eaton India also helps employees become members of professional bodies / associations pertaining to their areas of expertise. The Company bears 50% of the fee up to a maximum of 1000 INR per annum for any employee who has been with the organization for more than a year, with the approval of the respective manager.

Driven by Eaton employees, the initiatives under this program allow them to mentor and impart soft skills among first learners, students from vernacular background and disadvantaged communities. This increases the retention in education, provides wider exposure and skills that the technical education may miss out on.