Alight Environmental, Social & Governance

Be a beacon. Empower others. Be Alight.

Introducing our approach to creating a positive impact on colleagues, clients, environment, communities and long-term financial value.

Read the Global Impact Report

Our pillars

Fulfilling each of these mainstays on a daily basis is the foundation of our success

Culture of wellbeing

Making a positive impact on our clients starts with improving the prosperity of each and every employee within.

Social innovation

Continued advancement of tools, technology and ideological solutions leads to continued success.

Responsible business practices

Encouraging a bright future is strengthened by our dedication to human, social, economic and environmental ideals across every operation.

A message from our leadership

“As we looked at our ESG priorities and our long-term strategy, we had to look no further than our reason for being. At Alight, our purpose is to power confident decisions, for life. We do this by providing our clients’ employees with the tools, technology, resources and guidance to make more well-informed decisions around their health, wealth and wellbeing.”

Stephan Scholl, CEO

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Recognition and awards

We’re proud of the work we do for our clients and the environment we build for our people. It’s wonderful to be recognized for our efforts by these respected organizations and publications below.

Alight earns a top score in Human Rights Campaign’s 2022 Corporate Equality Index

Human Rights Campaign

Alight among the top 100 companies for remote workers

Flexjobs

Alight Solutions certified as a Great Place to Work for the fourth year in a row

Great Place to Work

Alight named one of Chicago’s best workplaces by Great Place to Work®

Great Places to Work

Alight named a Best Place to Work by Parents@Work

Parents@Work

Alight wins MedTech Breakthrough Award for TeleHealth Innovation

MedTech

Alight named a top employer for women

Professional Woman’s Magazine

Materiality assessment

In 2021, we completed our first materiality assessment to identify the ESG topics most important to stockholders, employees, clients, communities and other stakeholders. Our strategic focus is now centered on these priorities and their alignment with our three ESG pillars. For more information, please read our Global Impact Report.

Primary ESG areas of focus for Alight: employee wellbeing, ethics, cybersecurity and privacy readiness, career development, diversity, equity and inclusion and risk and disaster management.

Related insights

Forging a path forward for employee wellbeing

Offering wellbeing support to employees is something employers have been prioritizing as part of their overall rewards and benefits strategy in the past decade.

Workforce

Putting purpose into practice

Our research shows that more and more employees are looking to work for purpose-driven companies and it is increasingly being seen as a differentiator. This report takes a deeper dive into this concept using data from our annual 2022 International Workforce and Wellbeing Mindset Study.

Workforce

Winning with Wellbeing: Choose a human-centric approach to benefits to enhance the employee experience

We conducted research to try and understand how employees feel about their benefits today and explore new ways for employers to approach their benefits.

Alight Worklife

Highlighting our sustainable development goals

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a collaborative, global effort to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. Represented by 17 Global Goals and 169 targets, the SDGs address challenges including poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice.

We identified the 6 key goals where we have the greatest influence and impact through our business strategy, products, and services. Alight will also continue to annually assess our net contributions to the SDGs based on priority ESG topics and how we can collectively promote prosperity while protecting the planet.

Good health & wellbeing

Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing in mind, body, wallet and life.

Gender equality

Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.

Decent work & growth

Promote sustainability, inclusive economic growth and decent work for all.

Industry innovation

Build resilient infrastructure, sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.

Reduce inequalities

Develop strategies to lessen inequality within and among countries.

Climate action

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts by minimizing our carbon footprint.

Additional reporting

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