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Zoetis Inc

For the period ended Dec 31, 2023. Filed Feb 13, 2024.

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FY2023 · Filed Feb 13, 2024

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Human Capital Management

As of December 31, 2023, we had approximately 14,100 employees worldwide, which included approximately 6,900 employees in the U.S. and approximately 7,200 in other jurisdictions. We view the strength of our leadership team and our talented colleagues around the world as critical components of our past and future success. We remain committed to being a company our colleagues can be proud of and one where they can thrive. We achieve this by attracting, retaining and developing the best talent in the industry through our focus on workplace culture and engagement, diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I), talent recruitment, development and retention, benefits and compensation, and employee well-being, health and safety. The Human Resources Committee of our Board of Directors is responsible for overseeing talent development, DE&I, and employee engagement programs and policies, and the Quality and Innovation Committee regularly reviews employee health and safety metrics.

Some of our employees are members of unions, works councils, trade associations or are otherwise subject to collective bargaining agreements in particular jurisdictions, including a small number of employees in the U.S.

Workplace Culture and Employee Engagement

We have established the following Core Beliefs that are the foundation of the commitments we make to each other, our customers and our stakeholders every day:

Our Colleagues Make the Difference

Always Do the Right Thing

Customer Obsessed

Run It Like You Own It

We are One Zoetis

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We value responsibility and integrity. Our Code of Conduct contains general guidelines for conducting business with the highest ethical standards. We are committed to an environment where open, honest communications are the expectation, not the exception. We have an Open Door Policy where colleagues are encouraged to present ideas, concerns, questions, issues or suggestions directly to any level of leadership within Zoetis, without fear of retaliation.

We assess colleague engagement and key drivers enabling organizational performance by regularly conducting employee engagement surveys. Our engagement rate, as measured by favorable responses to qualitative questions about alignment with Zoetis objectives and employment with Zoetis, was 86% in 2023. We are proud to continue to have an engagement rate in the high eighties for the last three years. Insights from the Company’s engagement survey are used to develop both company-wide and business function level organizational and talent development plans.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I)

We strive to create an environment where colleagues feel valued and cared for and understand the important role we play in embracing diversity to improve the quality of our innovation, collaboration and relationships. Our Chief Talent, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer, reporting to our Chief Human Resources Officer, oversees a team dedicated to executing on our diversity, equity and inclusion strategy, which is reviewed with our executive leadership team and Board of Directors throughout each year.

Our DE&I focus and commitment begins with our leadership team of diverse backgrounds, experiences and ethnicities (for example, 64% of the executive team, including our Chief Executive Officer, are women), and it is demonstrated in our support of our colleagues and industry. We are committed to accelerating inclusion, equity and more diverse representation across the company. In May 2021, we released our first Sustainability Report, which included aspirations for change to make Zoetis and our industry more inclusive, including the following specific aspirations focused on increasing the representation of underrepresented groups within our company by the end of 2025 (as compared to 2020):

Increase representation of women at the director level and above globally from 32% to 40%;

Increase overall representation among people of color in the U.S. from 21% to 25%;

Increase representation of Black colleagues in the U.S. from 4% to 5%; and

Increase representation of Latinx colleagues in the U.S. from 5% to 6%.

We continue to make great strides towards achieving these aspirations. In addition, we offer nine Colleague Resource Groups, which are an important catalyst to foster a diverse, inclusive environment, while positively impacting our business and community. In 2023, we continued to offer DE&I training globally to all our employees.

Talent Recruitment, Development and Retention

We employ a variety of career development, employee benefits, policies and compensation programs designed to attract, develop and retain our colleagues. Employee benefits and policies are designed for diverse needs including generous parental leave policies and expanded adoption, fertility and surrogacy benefits for all colleagues equitably. We have internal programs designed to develop and retain talent, including a talent development portal, mentoring programs, career planning resources, leadership development programs, and performance management and training programs. In particular, our R&D team recruits scientists and research and development personnel from universities and scientific associations and forums and leverages a variety of R&D-specific talent tools. Our global voluntary attrition rate decreased from 10% in 2022 to 8% in 2023.

Compensation and Benefits

We strive to support our colleagues’ well-being and enable them to achieve their best. Our compensation and benefits programs are designed to support colleague well-being including physical and mental health, financial wellness, and family and lifestyle resources. We recognize the diverse needs of our colleagues around the world and have developed comprehensive programs that vary by country and region to best address them. In the U.S., these benefits include flexible work arrangements, educational assistance, mental health support, and inclusive family-friendly benefits like fully paid parental leave, including for adoptions, parents of all genders and same sex partners, as well as fertility and surrogacy benefits. To support colleague well-being and work life balance, we continue to offer enhanced childcare benefits and flexible work arrangements to aid our colleagues in managing their work and family responsibilities.

We are proud of our continuing record as a top employer, as recognized by esteemed publications and organizations around the world.

Employee Health and Safety

We are committed to ensuring a safe working environment for our employees and our Global Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Policy standards define EHS performance requirements for all sites, procedures and recommended practices. Our sites have injury prevention programs, and we strive to build a best-in-class safety culture. Our procedures emphasize the importance of investigating causes of injuries and action plans to be implemented to mitigate potential recurrence.

We track health and safety performance metrics including total injury rate (TIR), lost time injury rate (LTIR), restricted work injuries and medical treatment injuries on a monthly basis for all manufacturing and research and development sites, as well as for U.S. offices, field force, fleet and logistics. Since 2018, we have tracked TIR and LTIR for all our operations worldwide. Our safety programs have resulted in strong safety performance, with TIR and LTIR rates being lower than the industry averages.

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