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'.

Our Audit & Risk Committee receives quarterly overviews of all inappropriate and illegal misconduct cases across jurisdictions that have either been managed or are in process locally. This reporting includes incidents of discrimination, including harassment, which in 2024 totaled 5 substantiated cases. A dedicated team in People & Culture is responsible for sending Internal Audit an anonymous global overview. A dedicated system is used to confidentially report on these cases, ensuring country-by-country access protection and only to authorised employees. For GDPR compliance, all data on employee cases are anonymous. In 2024, we had zero severe human rights incidents connected to our employees.