Company: ISRG
Filing Date: 2025-01-31
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001035267-25-000017
Chunk: 88

Company: INTUITIVE SURGICAL INC
Filing Date: 2025-01-31
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 88
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 1,962. Our employees are based in 29 different countries around the world. Our global workforce consists of a diverse range of highly skilled talent. During 2024, our turnover rate was approximately 8.9%.

Inclusion and Diversity

Intuitive’s inclusion and diversity (“I&D”) mission is to work to build an environment where every individual can belong and flourish – in our company and the communities we serve.

We believe that everyone should feel included and fairly treated, and we embrace the unique qualities that make people who they are. This includes all genders and gender identities, races, ethnicities, ages, national origins, native languages, 

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disabilities, sexual orientations, body sizes, military backgrounds, cognitive styles, socioeconomic backgrounds, religions, and family structures. We believe in seeking the difference to propel innovation and creativity forward.

We have a four-part strategy to guide our I&D efforts: ensuring an inclusive experience, where employees from all backgrounds feel welcome, supported, and valued; building a diverse workforce to fuel innovation and better mirror the customers and patients we serve; continuously investing in and enhancing the fairness of our people practices and sharing progress; and strengthening industry engagement through collaboration with our customers, the broader healthcare community, and shareholders. We aim to pursue this strategy through various initiatives, including assessing our efforts through a compliance lens; our policies prohibit unlawful discrimination against individuals on the basis of any protected characteristic.

Details of our employee workforce composition, including a link to our Employer Information Report (“EEO-1”) submission to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”), are available on our website. Although we reference the availability of our EEO-1 on our website in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, our EEO-1 and any other materials on our website are not incorporated by reference into this Annual Report on Form 10-K or any of our other filings under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act. While matters discussed in such EEO-1 and other website materials may be significant, any significance should not be read as necessarily rising to the level of materiality used for the purposes of our compliance with the U.S. federal securities laws, even if we use the word “material” or “materiality” in such materials.

From a governance perspective, maintaining a mix of backgrounds and experience in our Board composition is essential to being able to understand, represent, and reflect the needs of our diverse stakeholders. Currently, five of our 12 Board members (