Responsible organisation

We strive to be a responsible organisation, through the working environment we create for our team, the way we engage with our stakeholders, and our business practices.

How we operate as a business is as important to us as the science we pursue and the therapies we are developing for patients. We recognise our business practices have an impact on our entire value chain, from our employees to our partners to the environment.

We are building a vibrant culture that is aligned with our values of being bold, rigorous, inclusive and compassionate. We take a proactive approach to assessing our workplace environment. In our most recent culture survey, we had an excellent net promoter score of 39.¹

We have been certified a Most Loved Workplace, ranking number 31 in the UK. The list recognises companies that put respect, caring, and appreciation for their employees at the centre of their business model.

There are five areas we focus on in our efforts to be a socially minded organisation:

Team wellbeing: As a mental health care company, we aspire to be a leader in building a workplace that reduces the stigma of mental illness and fosters wellbeing. To us, team wellbeing starts with our culture, ways of working, the benefits we provide, and the support each of our team members receives in defining and pursuing their career aspirations. We also offer a holistic, optional programme to support the physical and mental wellbeing of our team members.
Diversity, equity and inclusion: We are building a team that is diverse, and a culture that values everyone’s ideas and lived experience. It is important that our workforce is as diverse as the patients we aim to help with our therapies.
Business ethics: We set and follow high standards of conduct and accountability. We promote ethical behaviour through transparent policies and practices.
Supply chain management: We seek to work with suppliers whose values align with our own. We recognise that much of our impact sits in our supply chain, so it is important for us to collaborate with our suppliers to understand and address environmental and social impacts.
Environmental stewardship: We strive to minimise the negative impacts our business activities have on the environment.

Team wellbeing

As a mental health care company, we aspire to be a leader in building a workplace that reduces the stigma of mental illness and fosters wellbeing. To us, employee wellbeing starts with our culture, ways of working, the benefits we provide, and the support each of our team members receives in defining and pursuing their career aspirations. We also offer a holistic, optional programme to support the physical and mental wellbeing of our team members.

76 %

of team members agreed with the statement “COMPASS prioritises my wellbeing.”

75 %

of team members agreed with the statement “I have a real sense of belonging working at COMPASS.”

Our actions

39 %

women in executive management²

12 %

LBGTQ+ team members³

90 %

of team members agreed with the statement “We are inclusive at COMPASS.”

Our actions

In 2021, we established our first Global diversity, equity, and inclusion policy, which covers topics like our practices and policies on recruitment, compensation, and employee development and training. The policy seeks to ensure that our organisation is as diverse as the patients we aim to help with our therapies. We periodically conduct workplace harassment training and inclusion training to build awareness and capabilities in these areas.
- We are connecting with experienced partners to support us to diversify our pool of candidates. We also use job boards dedicated to LGBTQ+, ethnic minorities, and neurodivergent job applicants.
- We have undertaken a gap analysis to identify ways to attract, retain and support people with neurodivergent traits. We have improved the accessibility of our website for people with visual impairments. We also invite candidates to notify us if any disability accommodations are needed in the interview process.
- We are a signatory to the UK Disability Confident Scheme, which aims to help organisations employ disabled people. Disability Confident is creating a movement of change, encouraging employers to think differently about disability and take action to improve how they recruit, retain, and develop disabled people. Representatives for disabled peoples and employers developed the scheme to make it rigorous but easily accessible.
- We are members of the Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion (ENEI). ENEI are our external advisors and help us to improve our DEIB policies and practices.
- We have given team members the option to voluntarily provide their personal demographic information to enable us to measure our workforce diversity and set goals to improve diversity. See more data here.

Our actions

We are enhancing our third-party risk management approach. Our updated approach allows us to better understand where risks sit in our supply chain. Key supply-related risks have been identified and treatment plans are in place.
As part of our supplier due diligence process, we are evaluating the inclusion of ESG criteria, such as human rights, diversity, carbon emissions, and health and safety. This will help us evaluate the relative maturity of potential suppliers.

Our actions

Investigational COMP360 is manufactured and packaged in the UK. It is packaged in a lightweight plastic bottle, which minimises freight costs and energy. We are working to further reduce the environmental footprint of our packaging by studying the feasibility of transitioning to blister packs for commercial launch.

We are in the process of calculating our carbon and water footprints. We will use this information to evaluate actions needed to reduce the impacts from our operations and supply chain.
Environmental stewardship is promoted throughout our organisation by an employee environmental committee. In 2022, the committee organised an auction to reuse office technology. A total of 16 laptops were sold, effectively prolonging the functional life of COMPASS technology that, although no longer fit for the intensity of COMPASS work, still works well for personal use.
We believe environmental issues need to be addressed at the industry-level. We are eager to learn from and support sector-wide collaborative actions to help build sustainable solutions, and develop the data, frameworks and standards required for policy change. The Sustainable Medicine Partnership is a not-for-profit, private-public, multi-stakeholder collaborative of 42 organisations aiming to make the use of medicines less wasteful. Click here to read about the four-year programme to build science-based, scalable solutions to reduce waste from medicines.

Footnotes

^{1 https://www.qualtrics.com/uk/experience-management/employee/employee-net-promoter-score/}

^{2 Voluntary response rate of 89%. Positions with a reporting line at most two levels from the CEO. Bands I, J and ET.}

^{3 Voluntary response rate of 60%.}

^{Data points – Refer to data as of December 31, 2022. See more impact data here.}

Our collective understanding of mental health is increasing all the time, with advances in neuroscience, psychotherapy, psychopharmacology and digital platforms.

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Responsible organisation

We strive to be a responsible organisation, through the working environment we create for our team, the way we engage with our stakeholders, and our business practices.

We have a holistic wellbeing programme designed to include all aspects of mental and physical wellbeing, from exercising to relationships.

We have flexible ways of working policies designed to accommodate a variety of working styles.

We are creating a workplace of belonging.

We provide competitive compensation and comprehensive company paid benefits.

Our policies and training support diversity, equity, and inclusion as a business imperative.

We are making changes to our processes to recruit minority talent.

We look for ways to continually improve our practices.

Our interactions are guided by our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics.

We have mechanisms for employees to report violations of the Code.

We take measures for data privacy and cybersecurity.

We act to minimise the use of animals in our research programmes. Where animal research is required by law, we ensure it is conducted in line with internationally recognised principles and standards.

We are enhancing our third-party risk management system.

We are evaluating sustainable procurement actions to take in the future.

We are working to minimise the negative impacts of our business activities.

We encourage our team members to engage with our environmental stewardship initiatives.

We are a founding collaborator of the Sustainable Medicines Partnership.

Our collective understanding of mental health is increasing all the time, with advances in neuroscience, psychotherapy, psychopharmacology and digital platforms.