TJX Companies

Yes, To attract candidates who are members of diverse racial and ethnic groups, we work with universities, attend conferences, leverage social media, and collaborate with several community-based and business networks. In the U.S., we partner with organizations through colleges and universities that offer specialty development for members of diverse groups on their campuses. We benchmark against peers to better understand how we can leverage opportunities to expand awareness of TJX and our available jobs among diverse audiences. Similarly in Europe, we recruit from a diverse pool of candidates for our Graduate, Placement, and Apprenticeship Programmes. We are proud to have Associates from a number of different European countries taking part in our programs.

Yes, In 2018, TJX rolled out a large-scale Associate training program on unconscious bias to approximately 190,000 Associates. A year later, we made this training part of our new hire and new manager training for our field organization, and in early 2020, we expanded our efforts, sharing this training program with our executive team and Board of Directors as well as across additional business areas and international regions. We have also consolidated our online learning resources regarding inclusion and diversity for easy access on our Company’s intranet.

Yes, we have a Leadership Development Toolkit with defined leadership competencies and cultural factors to help support the development of our Associates. These competencies and factors are skills and behaviors that have led to long-term success for many of our managers. Personal character and integrity are at the core of our competencies, as is investing the time to build relationships, whether that is with co-workers across the hall or in another country. We strongly believe that these competencies and factors benefit our business overall, and that our results reflect our efforts. We are currently reviewing this toolkit and planning to add more specific inclusion-based components where applicable to further support our commitment in this area.Read more about our development programs here.