Our people

Datatec employs over 11 000 people in more than 50 countries across the world. The Group strives to attract and retain the best talent, and recognises that it is imperative to ensure that its people are prioritised.

We believe in maintaining a fair, inclusive culture; and in ensuring that our employees have optimal working conditions and opportunities for growth and development. Through responsible business, we create opportunities for our employees through our diversity, equity and inclusion programmes; ensuring employee wellbeing, health and safety; and striving to be a great place to work.

Datatec is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing a working environment that is free from discrimination. We recognise the importance of purposefully embedding diversity, equity, and inclusion into ways of working across the Group. This remains a consistent, growing focus and is shaping the values that define the culture of Datatec.

Transformation is a strategic priority across Datatec and its divisions. We continue to comply with legislation and work on areas of improvement. In South Africa, Datatec has achieved a Level 3 BBBEE rating; WestconGroup SA's rating is Level 1; and Logicalis SA is Level 1.

11 009 employees (FY22: 10 933)

Westcon International

Westcon International strives to be a place that people want to join and love to stay. It has created an inclusive culture where its people can feel and do their best. Westcon International welcomes employees of every background, race, creed, and orientation and gives them equitable access to skills and development training to help them reach their full potential.

Highlights

• Training budgets were increased by 25% globally
• Close to US$1 million spent on training programmes during FY23. The division continues to embrace virtual training to deliver effective development of key topics to all functions
• ESG training rolled out to all employees with unconscious bias, and cyber security forming part of the onboarding curriculum
• Over 3 500 employees

Westcon International's strategy clearly articulates that the core strength of its division is its people. Attracting, developing and retaining the best employees across its international business will enable Westcon International to deliver its business priorities and goals.

Employee wellbeing is a priority, encompassing physical, mental and emotional, community and social, as well as financial wellbeing. Westcon International is committed to a wellbeing vision that will enable the division to support its employees' health and talent outcomes in order to maintain long-term performance and achieve its strategic business objectives. Mental health awareness is a year-round focus with regular communications and events.

Westcon International launched its new learning and development policy in the latter part of FY23, which has been incorporated into its learning and development strategy. Through equitable access to skills and development training, it is supporting and growing its pool of experts and empowering employees to reach their potential. This is executed through ongoing training opportunities, leadership and development training, diversity, equity and inclusion training, and promoting employee health and wellbeing.

Westcon International's global "Level Up" programme is designed to attract interns, graduates and apprentices to enhance their ability to follow their chosen career path in the future. Apprenticeships are offered in the UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands, the Middle East, South Africa, Singapore, China, Taiwan and Thailand.

Some of Westcon International's past achievements and plans for FY24 include:

• The continued success of the ONE Westcon programme, including the creation and adoption of an internal global Microsoft Teams channel, used to highlight and promote internal charity, health and ONE Westcon events
• Expand on the creation of seven employee resource groups which focus on inclusion, equality, health and wellbeing, sport and fitness, carers and workplace, and ESG
• Build on the success of the "Level Up" global expansion
• Inclusivity training such as unconscious bias and inclusive leadership

Logicalis

Logicalis recognises that its people are critical to the ongoing success of its business and by striving to attract the best talent, develop and reward its people for great performance and engage effectively with them, Logicalis aims to be an employer of choice. In FY23, Logicalis was recognised as being a "Great Place to Work"
in 12 countries.

Highlights

• Invested US$1.9 million in employees career development, training, and accreditations
• 25.5% increase in global female leaders from 22% in FY21
• Global female representation has increased to 24%
• FY23 launch of our first global affinity group, Architects of Pride, supporting members of Logicalis' LGBTQIA+ community and their allies

Logicalis' three strategic priorities for the people team are set out below:

Logicalis' leadership teams work closely with its strategic partners to ensure that employees are trained appropriately and have the necessary accreditations. In the interests of its long-term sustainability and to develop and retain its top leadership talent, Logicalis has established a series of international development programmes.
It also invests in the development of its technical leadership teams through a tailored programme designed specifically to leaders in its technical teams.

To enable Logicalis to understand what its employees think and feel about working for Logicalis, a continuous listening "Pulse" platform gives business leaders access to real-time feedback and analytics from their teams, where improvement opportunities can be easily identified in each operation, followed up by action plans which managers and employees agree upon together.

Logicalis recognises that when people from diverse backgrounds work together, the more innovative and creative that team is likely to be. It has therefore made a commitment to increase the number of women and minority groups in the division. Logicalis' Global Inclusion Council is a team of global leaders who drive the creation of strategic accountability and actions to help deliver diversity and inclusion objectives, provide governance and oversight on diversity efforts, and promote division-wide communication on progress. The council continues to work to identify more opportunities for Logicalis to grow and enhance its culture so all employees feel valued and can thrive.

Logicalis is invested in processes to attract more diverse candidates to facilitate diverse talent selection. It continues to roll out training programmes and courses, which include unconscious bias, the impact of micro-behaviours in the workplace, and inclusive leadership training.

Since 2021, Logicalis has been able to achieve a significant increase in female participation in "High Potential" programmes and "Leadership" academies across the world; and the Logicalis overall female population continues to grow, as well as the number of females in leadership roles.

Logicalis is committed to supporting its employees' wellbeing and in FY23, executed a "Logicalis Wellbeing Programme", with a focus on supporting employees physical, mental and emotional, community and social wellbeing.

Logicalis also offers various internship programmes across its operations.

Some of Logicalis' plans for FY24 include:

• Defining diversity, equity, and inclusion targets based on peer benchmarking, best practice and the outcomes of the Datatec materiality assessment
• Execution of the newly launched EVP
• Expansion to a broader curriculum, introducing accessible learning for all employees
• New starter onboarding programme

Logicalis Latin America

3 229 employees (FY22: 3 189)

Logicalis Brazil's Level Up Programme was launched in February 2023 to offer training in IT. The programme also leverages participants' employability and feeds the pipeline for potential candidates for Logicalis Latin America. Logicalis Brazil launched an internship programme in FY23, filling 30 vacancies, the first year in which more women were hired than men.

Mandatory unconscious bias training is given to all new hires in Brazil and Logicalis Brazil held various virtual panels to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion perspectives.

Logicalis Latin America also offers an employee assistance programme which offers expert support (phone, app or website) to employees and their families for psychological, emotional, social, financial, legal and nutritional issues, as well as health events and initiatives.