Global citizenship at HP

As HP has grown to become the world's largest IT company, our commitment to global citizenship has remained at the core of our business strategy. Global citizenship at HP is based on a foundation of strong corporate accountability and governance, a commitment to environmental responsibility, and active investment in local communities. We aim to connect our commitment to good global citizenship to the daily operations of HP's business. Our strategy is to choose areas where we can make a valuable contribution, and support those commitments with not only money, but more importantly, our people and products. HP is part of a complex business system that includes thousands of organizations around the world and touches not only HP, but its suppliers, employees, customers and society. Global citizenship is fundamental at every point in this system.

HP

HP is a global technology leader providing solutions to consumers, businesses and institutions. We are committed to reducing the environmental impact of our operations, products and services. We design our products to be sustainable throughout their life cycles, offer product reuse and recycling solutions, and set high environmental standards in our operations and supply chain.

Employees

HP employs roughly 156,000 diverse, talented people in more than 170 countries. We are committed to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and we value the health, safety, quality of life, productivity and privacy of all employees. HP wants to be known and recognized for ethical leadership. Our Standards of Business Conduct (PDF file) guide each employee's actions, helping to create and maintain a culture of ethical business practices. Furthermore, HP employees around the world contribute time, expertise, products and money — with HP matching resources — to support their local communities.

Suppliers

HP operates one of the IT industry's largest and most complex global supply chains. Our suppliers must adhere to HP's Supplier Code of Conduct (PDF file). We continually work with them to help build capabilities and raise the bar for labor and human rights, health and safety, environmental responsibility and ethical standards. Additionally, to increase diversity in our supply chain we offer under-represented businesses equal opportunities to become HP suppliers and resellers.

Customers

Millions of people use HP technology every day - and good corporate citizenship is becoming more important to many customers. HP interacts with customers to learn what matters to them. Engineers design products to be accessible to as many people as possible, including those with disabilities. In addition, HP strives for minimal impact on the environment with its product design and packaging and offers a wide range of reuse and recycling options, while always protecting our customers' privacy.

Society

As part of the worldwide community, HP works with governments, the IT industry, investors, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other communities to understand the issues society faces and to shape policies that support global citizenship. In 2006, HP invested $45.6 million across more than 40 countries to promote economic development, education and environmental responsibility.

» Read the FY06 Global Citizenship Report to learn more about HP's non-financial performance.