Company: HBCYF
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001089113-25-000040
Chunk: 124

Company: HSBC HOLDINGS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: 20-F
Chunk 124
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 years of service, and at 40 years. In 2024 over 28,000 anniversaries were celebrated. Share plans are another way to empower colleagues to participate in the Group’s success. In 2024, we invited 194,000 colleagues to participate in our share plans and 93% of colleagues globally now have access to a share plan. Supporting our colleagues to grow To help our colleagues to grow personally and professionally, we are committed to supporting their mental, physical and financial well-being, offering flexibility and helping colleagues develop new skills. We use colleague feedback, benchmarking from industry experts and we work with external partners across business, civil society and academia. As a founding member of the World Wellbeing Movement, we are working with the associated Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford to shape our approach to well-being. In Snapshot, a record 78% of our colleagues said, ‘my organisation cares about my well- being’, up nine percentage points from 2023. We further detail our approach to supporting our colleagues to grow on the following page. We further detail our approach to skills and career development on page 68 .

| HSBC Holdings plcAnnual Report on Form 20-F | 67 |

Being a great place to work continued

| Supporting ourcolleagues in the MiddleEast                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| In the wake of regional conflicts wemade promotion and support of mentalhealth a priority. We held regular on-siteCritical Incident Support across ourMENAT region, covering Egypt, UAE,Kuwait, Türkiye and Qatar.Across the region, belief that HSBCgenuinely cares about its colleagues wasat 66%, up 12 percentage points from2023. We also found that awareness ofmental health support at HSBC was at74%, up six percentage points from2023.To support broader well-being across theregion we increased paid maternity leaveto a consistent 18 weeks. Family friendlyenhancements were also made to themedical plan with the introduction offertility treatment coverage and newcoverage for Applied Behaviour Analysisin Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and theUAE.We also held on-site breast screeningand flu immunisation appointments inthe UAE. Following increased demandfor these services, more appointmentsand longer hours have been madeavailable. |

Flexible working Flexible working remains one of the top reasons colleagues say they would recommend HSBC to someone else, with 74% of colleagues saying flexible working is the aspect of our well-being programme they value the most. In