Enabling resources

Our people

Maintaining adequate employment levels, skill coverage and development, workers health and safety, and the quality of employment are essential for pursuing Group’s strategies, which, also in terms of jobs, support the Global Compact principles.

1,145

new hires
in 2023

Employment and development

Investment in developing internal skills and enhancing human resources is a fundamental element of the pact between the company and the individual, along with efforts to improve working conditions.

Human Resources Management

The Group sees fundamental capital for growth in its human resources. The aim is to become a team, add value to the outcome of individual work and increase a feeling of belonging.

Corporate welfare

Improving the quality of life and promoting work-life balance are among the fundamental objectives of corporate welfare activities.

Industrial relations

Trade union and industrial relations contribute to create the best conditions for guaranteeing Iren Group the development of a business model that aims to involve and enhance human resources.

Diversity and inclusion

Diversity and inclusion are among the key objectives to support the Group’s growth strategy. The diversity of people, together with a culture of inclusion, brings a wealth of contributions and ideas that can strengthen decision-making processes, efficiency and collaboration. Diversity and inclusion are an integral part of the Group’s Code of Ethics and a determining factor for its growth model.

Occupational health and safety

The Group considers the dedication of human, professional, organisational, technological and economic resources to occupational health and safety as an investment, as it believes it to be fundamentally important to protect workers and includes among its objectives not only compliance with the provisions laid down by the law, but also measures taken with a view to continuously improving working conditions. 

Our suppliers

The Group’s strategy is also expressed through sustainable supply chain management, with the aim of creating value over time for the company and its stakeholders. By managing and improving its environmental, social and economic impacts and ensuring good supply chain governance, the Group acts not only to achieve its strategic objectives and to generate a positive reflection on its resilience and competitiveness, but also in the interest of stakeholders and society at large.

1,269 mln

Purchase orders

57%

Ordered towards

local suppliers

1,101

Suppliers involved

in ESG profile survey

4,9 mln 

Investments in innovation and research

Innovation and digitalisation

The aim of Iren Group’s approach to innovation is to improve service quality, building relationships between material infrastructures and human capital, both intellectual and social, thanks to the use of new technologies, in order to improve quality of life and meet the needs of residents, companies and institutions.

 

Digitalisation is among the enabling levers that will allow the Group to grow in line with the objectives stated in the Business Plan to 2030, which envisages a significant increase in investments to support the Group’s digital transformation and development process.

4,9 mln 

Invested in research and innovation projects

of which approximately 560,000 Euros were funded through tenders

Innovation and digitalisation

The aim of Iren Group’s approach to innovation is to improve service quality, building relationships between material infrastructures and human capital, both intellectual and social, thanks to the use of new technologies, in order to improve quality of life and meet the needs of residents, companies and institutions.

 

Digitalisation is among the enabling levers that will allow the Group to grow in line with the objectives stated in the Business Plan to 2030, which envisages a significant increase in investments to support the Group’s digital transformation and development process.

120

Group employees

 

actively involved in innovation projects

Innovation and digitalisation

The aim of Iren Group’s approach to innovation is to improve service quality, building relationships between material infrastructures and human capital, both intellectual and social, thanks to the use of new technologies, in order to improve quality of life and meet the needs of residents, companies and institutions.

Digitalisation is among the enabling levers that will allow the Group to grow in line with the objectives stated in the Business Plan to 2030, which envisages a significant increase in investments to support the Group’s digital transformation and development process.