Employee Wellbeing & Development | Sodexo

Supporting engaged employees to deliver outstanding service

Our employees work hard to deliver food and services for our clients and consumers every day. By supporting their health, safety, well-being, and development, we ensure that employees remain engaged. This enables our employees to deliver a better service and increase our positive impact as an organization.

Workplace Health & Safety Culture

A ‘zero harm’ culture keeps everyone safe, you and your employees as well as our own. HSE policies and procedures make this mindset a reality. HSE policies and procedures provide the foundation while leadership, open communication, training, safe tools and equipment ensure a consistent approach worldwide. Combined, these factors enable us to deliver a high-quality, safe and efficient service to our clients and everyone involved.

Employee Development and Training

From safety training to culinary courses and leadership training for employees. We have professional development opportunities suitable for all our employees. By 2028 we plan to provide 15 hours of training per year to all our employees worldwide, helping them to provide a better service to our clients.

Employee benefits

Happy employees deliver great service. We’ve set a standard of benefits for our employees across the globe, balancing best practice with global realities. Our benefits program Vita includes parental leave, life insurance and an assistance phone line.

Business for Inclusive Growth
Business for Inclusive Growth (B4IG) is made up of 34 leading international companies. This coalition have committed to stepping up business action to advance human rights and build inclusive workplaces.
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Culture and Belonging partnerships
Partnerships with a huge range of organizations help us to create a more inclusive workplace. These include organizations such as; Catalyst, United Nations Global Compact, the Valuable 500, Workplace PRIDE, TENT Foundation and Nestlé Global Alliance for Youth and Beyond.

Meet our people

Food
Carole's story: good food can change lives
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Business and Industries
Gordon’s story: challenges are key to learning your craft
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Business and Industries
Angelica’s story: every challenge is a chance to learn
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Marquis’ story: 26 years of milestones and memories
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Employee Wellbeing & Development FAQ:

Organizations create a culture of health, safety and wellbeing by making employee protection and support part of daily work. This means leaders model safe behaviours, teams discuss risks openly, and wellbeing is built into operations, workplace design, food, communication, and learning.
A strong culture also gives employees clear ways to raise concerns and access support. When safety and wellbeing are shared responsibilities, organizations can improve employee experience, reduce preventable risks, and create workplaces where people feel trusted, valued, and able to perform well.
Workplace safety supports organizational resilience by reducing risks that can disrupt people, services, and operations. A proactive safety approach helps organizations prevent incidents, protect employees, and maintain business continuity when working conditions change.
Safety also strengthens resilience by improving preparedness and workforce confidence. Clear risk management, preventive measures, training, reporting, and continuous improvement help teams respond faster to disruption. When combined with wellbeing initiatives, workplace safety supports compliance, service quality, and more stable operational performance.
Wellbeing programmes help attract and retain talent by showing that an organization supports employees as people, not only as workers. Programmes that address physical health, mental wellbeing, nutrition, work-life balance, and development can improve the overall employee experience.
Employees are more likely to join and stay with organizations that create healthy, supportive workplaces. Wellbeing initiatives can contribute to stronger engagement, job satisfaction, and employer reputation when they are practical, accessible, and connected to real workforce needs.
Organizations can improve wellbeing and safety across multiple locations by setting shared standards and adapting them to local needs. Core policies, reporting processes, training, and wellbeing programmes should be consistent, while local teams adjust delivery for regulations, cultures, facilities, and workforce expectations.
Data and regular performance reviews help organizations compare outcomes across sites. Digital tools, incident reporting, employee feedback, and best-practice sharing can reveal gaps and guide improvement. This approach supports consistent service quality while allowing each location to respond to its own risks and employee needs.
Organizations should look for a workplace safety and wellbeing partner with expertise across health and safety, wellbeing programmes, nutrition, workplace experience, facilities management, and continuous improvement. The partner should understand both employee needs and operational requirements.
A strong partner should also use data to measure outcomes, identify risks, and improve services over time. The best fit is a partner that can integrate safety and wellbeing into everyday workplace operations, align activity with business objectives, and support healthier, safer, and more resilient workplaces.