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Business Values
"If we don't catch and ride these waves, we will stumble. These are the values that will sustain our winning momentum. We want to embody these values and become good at them to create a winning company."
– Oleg Khaykin, CEO
The VIAVI business values articulate the internal cultural identity for VIAVI employees and provide shared understanding of expectations across the company. The values were identified through global workshops to understand the winning components of working at VIAVI, as well as the guiding principles that will help guide us to achieve our objectives globally. The values clarify the desired operating environment of the employees and management. The six values reinforce the importance of how we approach getting the work done together in service of our winning company strategy.
People Strategy and Human Capital Management
The People Strategy defines the talent priorities and the roadmap for the execution of human capital investment in support of our business strategy. We've newly embedded Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) as part of our People Strategy to ensure that we begin to view the way we deliver through the DEI lens and identify areas of opportunity to improve our processes. Our HR team partners with the business to ensure that the right programs and investment are prioritized and aligned to accelerate our corporate strategy.
Talent Planning
Forward looking planning of skills and capabilities and ensuring the right talent is in the right roles
We revamped our job leveling system globally to ensure we have the right people in the right roles, creating a foundation for career development and the talent we need for the future.
We continue to drive important talent conversations, including succession planning and talent assessment at the executive level to ensure that we have a good understanding of our leadership bench and begin to assess critical roles for the future.
Talent Acquisition
Delivery of an exceptional candidate experience
We've recently refreshed our careers page to share the VIAVI story and how we're driving the next chapter of innovation.
Candidates want to know what it's like to work here. We're sharing personal insights about the employee experience in Life at VIAVI.
Talent Rewards
Management and delivery of compensation and benefits to drive employee and business outcomes
We share our approach to work and how we can grow together here.
Talent Development
Providing the experience, exposure, and education opportunities to drive business results
Our talent development programs promote the VIAVI Business Values through a passion for learning and performance. We are developing relevant and useful learning resources for our employees, managers, and leaders that invite a growth mindset and create an appetite for lifelong learning.
Our global Leadership Development Program has now reached over 70% of our leaders in FY23. Years 1 and 2 after the launch of the program were focused on foundational leadership concepts, creating a shared language and behaviors for managing teams. This year, we launched advanced concepts for Managers focused on coaching others, changing leadership, and accelerating talent. Leaders in this program realize the value of connecting globally and cross functionally in the virtual live sessions, giving their experience a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 70+.
Our focus on broad based Manager Development reinforces the need to provide timely coaching and feedback while creating high-performing teams. Role-based learning paths are tailored to new and experienced levels of management to ensure learner relevance and enable sustained behavior change. We continue to drive talent conversations at all levels, which is complemented by Everyday Development, our performance management check-in process. Check-ins ensure that teams are being coached and supported throughout the year with relevant and timely discussions on Expectations, Feedback and Development. Both managers and employees have a role to play to ensure that they are connected on the activities that drive our business forward. Our employees can expect to engage regularly with their manager, and to have their support to accelerate their performance and development. Remote learning and working continued to be relevant as people continued to adapt through global change. We updated employees weekly with curated learning resources covering relevant themes like anti-racism, building personal resilience, working effectively in a remote environment to help our employees to be more agile, stay productive and focused while continuing their development on any device.
Our talent development offerings are made up of relevant and useful learning resources for our employees, managers, and leaders that invite a growth mindset and create an appetite for lifelong learning.
VIAVI employees exhibit commitment to their ongoing career development. Individual contributors represent 70% of our internal consumers of skill-based learning for developing the professional and technical skills they need to advance their careers.
Our employees regularly participate in mandatory training courses covering data privacy, cybersecurity, health and safety as well as the prevention of harassment, including sexual harassment in the workplace. These mandatory trainings are completed in compliance with our quality performance standard of 98%.
The following programs offer recent engineering and sales college graduates with a diverse mixture of experiences to grow personally and professionally. They provide emerging talent and our established workforce with opportunities to embrace other cultures and gain more of a global view and appreciation for diverse viewpoints. This unique exposure opportunity provides experiences that will support their future success and create a collaborative, global community of future talent ambassadors. Explore Early-Career Programs
Network and Service Enablement (NSE) Early-Career Program
Optical Security and Performance (OSP) Early-Career Program
Network and Service Enablement (NSE) Early-Career Program
This, global multi-year rotation program is open to recent graduates completing an undergraduate or graduate degree program in Engineering, Computer Science, or related disciplines. We partner with local universities in multiple countries to attract talented Graduates from communities in which we work and enhance the diversity of the program and our company. During the two-year program, graduates rotate to different projects and countries, working alongside some of the best engineers in the industry on a variety of R&D projects involving the latest cutting-edge technologies. At the end of the program, graduates will return to their home location having gained exposure to multiple projects, teams and cultures and built a network of peers who are also starting their careers at VIAVI. This year's newly hired graduates will receive customized learning plans to support their transition and be assigned a technical mentor to help guide them through the two-year developmental program.
Optical Security and Performance (OSP) Early-Career Program
OSP Early-career is a two-year program for highly qualified engineering graduates. This program develops new graduates' technical and leadership skills through a series of rotations in functional and manufacturing areas in our Santa Rosa, California facility. The site manufactures products for applications in anti-counterfeiting, consumer electronics, government, healthcare, and automotive markets. Graduates work closely with our expert engineering talent and rotate within the facility to learn important skills in optical metrology, materials characterization, optical coating design, roll-to-roll vacuum coating, sputter deposition, quality systems, and Process Engineering. The rotations, supplemented by short courses in key technology areas, are designed to provide new graduates with the skill set and the path required to qualify for a potential role in Optical Thin Film Coating Process Engineering in one of our Santa Rosa Operations Engineering groups.
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) at VIAVI
DEI Mission
Our commitment to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion
As an international company, the diversity of our workforce is important to VIAVI. We are striving to promote and maintain an inclusive work environment free of unlawful discrimination, retaliation and harassment in any form and offering equal opportunities to everyone.
"Treating one another with dignity and respect is foundational to creating the culture we seek. We demonstrate this through how we treat each other at work and through our involvement in our communities."
– Oleg Khaykin, CEO
DEI Pillars: Culture – Talent – Leadership
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Statement
VIAVI is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion.
Pay Equity Statement
VIAVI is committed to complying with federal laws on pay equity, including the long-established Equal Pay Act, which requires that men and women be given equal pay for equal work in the same establishment.
VIAVI Solutions UK Limited Gender Pay Gap Report
VIAVI is committed to complying with reporting requirements in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2017, which discloses the difference in average pay between men and women in the workforce.
Global Human and Labor Rights Policy
This Global Human and Labor Rights Policy aligns with the VIAVI core values and commitment to protect and advance human dignity and human rights in our global business practices.
Community Impact
Our regional wellness initiatives support our employees by encouraging healthy behaviors, promoting self-care and personal resilience. VIAVI employees contribute their time, money, and energy to make an impact in the communities where they live and work. Our global community outreach and impact teams serve children, education, and the environment through volunteerism.
Global Community Impact
The UK team initiated a project to promote STEM Education for local youth. This partnership with Stempoint is intended to encourage our highly skilled technical employees to volunteer their time and experience to teach and inspire the next generation of young people to follow an educational path toward STEM-based careers.
Across various sites in India, employees celebrated International Women's Day to express respect and gratitude for women from underprivileged backgrounds. In Pune, career guidance was provided to the women of a local non-profit organization. The Bangalore team organized a wellness program, which was delivered to over 400 orphan girls. The program was an opportunity to learn about hygiene management from a health care professional and included hygiene care kits for all the participants. In the Gurgaon office, employees worked with a local non-profit to create care kits filled with essential bathroom items for women to support awareness of clean hygiene. In Mumbai, employees worked with a non-profit organization.
Caring for the Environment
At VIAVI, we strive to drive sustainable growth while promoting social responsibility and ethical practices. In 2023, to celebrate our 100-year journey and commitment to ESG, we have partnered with OneTreePlanted to help aid forest restoration around the world.
Employee Data
Driving customer outcomes globally requires a uniquely talented group of dedicated employees in service of our strategy. We continue to focus on how we can best attract, develop, and retain critical talent across our diverse businesses.
Social Narrative
Embracing the practices and behaviors that create the environment for people to belong and grow.
Establishing our impact in our Chandler, Arizona Headquarters
Since moving our Corporate Headquarters to Chandler, Arizona in 2021, we have been working to establish VIAVI as an employer of choice in the community. We held the Grand Opening of our Optical Security and Performance (OSP) factory in November 2022. Outreach programs such as job fairs, connecting with local technical colleges and sponsorship of community events have cemented our presence in Chandler, and enabled us to create approximately 100 new jobs.
VIAVI volunteers participated in Chandler's For Our City Day in 2022, joining over 1,000 local volunteers that helped 54+ Chandler households in the Pepperwood neighborhood with beautification projects such as painting and yard cleanup. In July 2023, the team worked with the local chapter of Feed the Children to prepare 150 backpacks with the educational materials children need for success in the classroom. VIAVI was nominated for the Working Together Award at the annual Volunteer Recognition ceremony held by the city of Chandler.
Our global VIAVI Technical Council event was hosted in Chandler, including our top engineering talent for a week of collaboration and knowledge sharing to discuss strategy and accelerate innovation. Our graduates in the Research & Development Early-Career Program attended the program and were given a tour of our new OSP facility in Chandler.
We are celebrating our second year of continued partnership in education with the University of Arizona Wyant College of Optical Sciences. The scholarship program VIAVI instituted is in honor of Dr. H. Angus Macleod, a pioneer of optical science who mentored a generation of students to become foundational contributors to the field. The three new scholarship honorees selected for the 2023–2024 academic year reinforces our commitment to creating the opportunity for more talent to enter the optical space as a career, and to increase our local connection to the community.
Our Approach to Working
We've articulated our philosophy about working which includes the belief in the value of the having our team members interacting in a workspace. These benefits include higher productivity, increased creativity, developing an esprit-de-corps and building trust within and between teams. We will continue to refine on our practices with respect to hybrid working, while recognizing the unique needs of our workforce as conditions evolve.
Bridging Diversity to include Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
We are widening our understanding of Diversity to embrace not only identity, but also the practices and behaviors that create the right environment for people to succeed. We will continue to communicate to our employees about diverse perspectives, while adding the insight to understand the value of equity in our practices, and inclusiveness to our behaviors. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Pillars will embody our approach as we make progress in this space.
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Responding to the Needs of Our Employees and Community
The VIAVI Employee Disaster Relief Program was instituted to support our employees impacted by wildfires near our Santa Rosa, CA facility. We have now expanded this global program to provide grants in the event of natural disasters, life-threatening or serious illness or injuries, death incidents or other extreme circumstances.
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