In 2024, Ørsted navigated a rapidly evolving industry landscape, necessitating organisational adjustments, including redundancies, to maintain our competitive edge. While both satisfaction and motivation levels as well as voluntary turnover remain healthy compared to industry benchmarks, the changes have had a noticeable impact on employee satisfaction and motivation and our voluntary turnover trend. This poses a short-term risk of increased voluntary turnover and lower morale, satisfaction, and heightened stress. To address these challenges, we are focused on our internal communication and change management, strengthening our focus on good leadership and mental health and reaffirming our commitment to transparency and the well-being of our workforce. Our commitment to upholding human rights is outlined in our 'Sustainability commitment', 'Global human rights policy', 'Global labour and employment rights policy', 'Stakeholder engagement policy', and 'Just transition policy'.

Enhanced procedures to prevent discrimination: Our policies include specific commitments related to inclusion. To address the exclusion of historically marginalised groups, our global talent acquisition process was redesigned and launched in 2024, with equity, diversity, and inclusion embedded as key priorities. The redesign of this recruitment process mitigates bias by removing outdated assessments and broadening our hiring criteria to value alternative skills and experiences. This enables us to attract candidates from diverse backgrounds who bring unique perspectives and talent to our organisation.