At Dexco, we believe that strengthening the communities where we operate is essential to building a fairer and more sustainable society. For this reason, we actively promote the hiring of local professionals throughout our recruitment processes.

As of 2024, 70% of our employees reside in the same municipalities where our operational units are located, while the remaining 30% live in neighboring cities. All of the Company’s senior leadership positions are held by professionals hired from local communities, based on the match between their residential ZIP code and their workplace location.

When opening new positions, Dexco prioritizes internal recruitment by initially sharing opportunities with current employees, aiming to encourage career development and internal mobility. For external recruitment, we focus on hiring local talent in order to create more job opportunities in the regions where we operate.

We use the Gupy platform, which allows us to segment candidates based on geographical proximity, using ZIP code data. In addition, we promote job openings through accessible community channels, such as Employment Service Centers, job fairs, and other public spaces.

These initiatives reinforce Dexco’s commitment to regional development and the training of professionals who directly contribute to the success and sustainability of our business.

Agente da Gente has been active at Dexco since 2017 and its goal is to mobilize employees to be engagement/multiplying agents. Initially, employees are trained so they can be apt to talk with the community, helping ascertain a local social diagnosis.

We believe this way we create a team in every unit whose work directly helps built a joint agenda for local development.

Conversation Roundtables are an active listening and engagement process through which we not only improve our relationship and expand our conversation, but also helps us understand what each community is like, important issues, and who the main local players are. This way, it is possible to select initiatives to receive private social investment that meet their priority needs, build a legacy, promote social transformation, and leave a positive impact.

There are four steps to conversation roundtables, starting with the mobilization and preparation of the Agente da Gente employees to work in the program. Then, roundtables are held with local players (when it comes to a community, we involve locals and nearby associations, as well as companies and institutions we deal with or believe it is important to do so).

Once the roundtable has been held, the agents prepare the minutes and devise an Action Plan, listing up to three local initiatives that will be carried out throughout the year. The documentation and materials are shared with our Social Responsibility area, which together and aligned with the company’s strategy, selects the proposals that will receive resources, annually.

The project selection process involves several internal and leadership areas before they are put in place.

The process can be seen on the right:

Our corporate volunteering program is currently dedicated to the professional qualification of socially-vulnerable young people through the Formare Program*, engaging our employees as volunteering educators during working hours. In 2023, in the class started in Uberaba (MG), 14 young people are in the process of training, by 29 volunteer educators, totaling 340 hours.

Developed by Childhood Brasil, Na Mão Certa* brings companies together by adhering to the Corporate Pact against the forced labor and modern slavery and child labor in the supply chain. It is a commitment that Dexco took part since 2007. The goal is to tackle this grave violation of human rights. Periodically, we raise awareness on the subject with our suppliers, so that they can act as agents on the roads, through the Dexco Supplier Management (GFD) program and run internal awareness campaigns.

In addition to Brazil, Dexco conducts social initiatives in Colombia where we have a channel through which all positive and negative impacts identified with the communities neighboring the areas of the forest projects are received and welcomed with the support of La Fundación Gestión Social y Ambiental, which is our ally in working with communities.