In 2020, the company outlined a global strategy called People with the aim of placing people at the center.
People Centric
Our advantage comes from people
Today this program has been consolidated as an employee value proposition and is part of the 2025 Sustainability Master Plan, being the first of its strategic lines, with defined goals at the same level as economic and environmental ones.
This strategy invests in people to include and promote the best diverse talent that will make the company stronger and nimbler to face new challenges and opportunities and lead change.
2022 Highlights
- Implementation of training modules on employer branding, creation of channels for attracting talent and selection methodologies that promote diversity.
- Launching of ACCIONA's Institute of Technology to identify, design, execute and scale learning solutions related to ACCIONA's regenerative purpose.
- Consolidation of internal academies, adding a new academy under this model with a focus on technology and transformation learning.
- Top Employer certification in Mexico, USA, Brazil, Canada, and Australia, and continental seal in North America.
- Approval of the Diversity and Inclusion Policy. Increased percentage of women in leadership and management positions.
2023 Main challenges
- Global implementation of a new online assessment tool for the first stage of the selection process and implementation of an action plan linked to the conceptual update for the main groups of candidates.
- Implementation of the International Mobility Program aimed at the company's technicians/specialists and consolidation of the Development Talks’ process to keep on adding key tools to promote this culture.
- Promoting the management of technical and transversal learning under the Academies model for the development of employees in key competencies within technical areas and/or critical functions to improve performance. A Sustainability Academy will be founded by 2023.
- Setting up several pilots of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality experiences, some aligned with Metaverso ACCIONA.
- Deploying paperless initiatives with new tailor-made learning itineraries.
Evolution of the main social indicators
| Social indicators | 2021 | 2022 | Var |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workforce (No.) | 41,664 | 45,892 | +10.1 % |
| Women in management and executive positions (%) | 21.7 % | 22.2 % | +0.5 pb |
| Projects with Social Impact Management (no.) | 204 | 253 | +24 % |
| Average hours of training per year per employee | 13.8 | 17.6 | +27.5 % |
| Accident frequency rate for own employees and subcontractors (%) | 2.1 % | 1.9 % | -9.5 % |
Human team
ACCIONA closed 2022 with a total of 45,892 employees, of which 27% are women. In the company there are up to 140 nationalities with a presence in more than 40 countries.
Breakdown of the total workforce by business line (%)
Evolution of new hires by business line (No. of employees)
| 2021 | 2022 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male | Female | Total | Male | Female | Total | |
| Energy | 264 | 128 | 392 | 308 | 159 | 467 |
| Infrastructures | 7,080 | 1,391 | 8,471 | 8,239 | 1,506 | 9,745 |
| Construction * | 4,776 | 767 | 5,543 | 6,573 | 1,022 | 7,595 |
| Concessions | 17 | 15 | 32 | 18 | 10 | 28 |
| Water | 1,543 | 314 | 1,857 | 1,083 | 251 | 1,334 |
| Other infrastructure businesses | 744 | 295 | 1,039 | 565 | 223 | 788 |
| Other businesses * | 4,649 | 3,274 | 7,923 | 6,274 | 4,500 | 10,774 |
| Total new hires | 11,993 | 4,793 | 16,786 | 14,821 | 6,165 | 20,986 |
* The large volume of registrations is due to the temporary nature of the contracts and the contracting cycles, which depend on the projects.
Diversity and inclusion
ACCIONA understands and promotes diversity as a key competitive advantage for its businesses, and equity and inclusion as priority responsibilities in the people management model.
At the same time, it considers that these are essential conditions for the defense of human rights, sustainable development, and compliance with the 2030 Agenda.
The sustainable difference
Gender diversity
(Percentage of total)
Evolution of the hiring of people with disability
(Percentage total and No. of people)
844,018
training hours (+47 %)
12,321,710 €
full investment
2,025.29
investment per employee