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Sustainable Accounting Standards Board (SASB) Index
Technology & Communications - Hardware
Product Security
SASB Code | Metric | 2022 Response |
TC-HW-230a.1 | Description of approach to identifying and | The Sonos Product Security team works with development teams to enable adoption of best practices for building secure products. The team |
addressing data security risks in products | pursues this goal by shepherding Sonos products through the security development life cycle (which includes data security best practices), | |
building components to solve harder security problems and deploying tools to detect coding and configuration failures. |
Employee Diversity & Inclusion
SASB Code | Metric | 2022 Response | ||||||
TC-HW-330a.1 | Percentage of gender and racial/ethnic group | U.S. Workforce Ethnicity Representation (by fiscal year) | ||||||
representation for (1) management, | ||||||||
FY21 | FY22 | |||||||
(2) technical staff, and (3) all other employees | ||||||||
% of U.S. workforce that are ethnically diverse | 35% | 38% | ||||||
% of directors and above that are ethnically diverse | 19% | 24% | ||||||
% of all other roles that are ethnically diverse | 37% | 41% | ||||||
% of Board members that are ethnically diverse | 12.5% | 12.5% | ||||||
% of U.S. new hires that are ethnically diverse | 44% | 42% | ||||||
% of U.S. employees that shared their ethnicity information | 77% | 81% | ||||||
U.S. Workforce Racial and Ethnic Diversity1 | ||||||||
Asian | Black or African | Hispanic or | Indigenous | Multiracial | White | |||
American | Latino | |||||||
% of U.S. workforce | 21.3% | 5.1% | 7.7% | 0.5% | 3.5% | 62.1% | ||
% of director and above roles | 14.4% | 2.5% | 4.4% | 0.0% | 2.5% | 76.3% | ||
% of all other roles | 22.5% | 5.5% | 8.3% | 0.6% | 3.6% | 59.5% | ||
% of new hires | 21.9% | 8.5% | 7.8% | 0.3% | 3.5% | 58.0% |
- Percentages are based on the more than 81% of our U.S. workforce that disclosed their ethnicity information. We do not include non-disclosed persons in the analysis population. Director and above roles include the highest level individual contributors and managers, VPs and CXOs. All other roles include positions not included in director and above. Percentages may not add up to100 due to rounding.
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Employee Diversity & Inclusion
SASB Code | Metric |
TC-HW-330a.1 Percentage of gender and racial/ethnic group representation for (1) management,
(2) technical staff, and (3) all other employee
2022 Response
Global Workforce Gender Diversity
Female | FY20 | Female | FY21 | Female | FY22 | |
Male | Male | Male | ||||
% of our global workforce | 29.6% | 70.4% | 31.3% | 68.7% | 31.2% | 68.6% |
% of director and above roles1 | 21.5% | 78.5% | 25.3% | 74.7% | 25.4% | 74.6% |
% of technical roles | 19.0% | 81.0% | 19.0% | 81.0% | 18.4% | 81.6% |
% of all other roles1 | 30.8% | 69.2% | 32.2% | 67.8% | 32.0% | 68.0% |
% of new hires | 40.6% | 59.4% | 40.3% | 59.7% | 33.2% | 66.8% |
- Director and above roles include the highest level individual contributors and managers, VPs and CXOs. All other roles include positions not included in director and above.
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Product Life Cycle Management
SASB Code | Metric | 2022 Response |
TC-HW-410a.1 | Percentage of products by revenue that contain | All Sonos brand products contain some IEC 62474 declarable substances. Sonos manages the presence of IEC 62474 declarable substances |
IEC 62474 declarable substances | by complying with the applicable global regulations and directives on restricted, banned, or reportable substances and chemicals. | |
TC-HW-410a.2 | Percentage of eligible products, by revenue, | Not applicable. Sonos brand products are not in the scope of EPEAT. |
meeting the requirements for EPEAT registration | ||
or equivalent | ||
TC-HW-410a.3 | Percentage of eligible products, by revenue, | Not applicable. The US ENERGY STAR is either not applicable to the marketplace that Sonos brand products occupy, or the products are not in |
meeting ENERGY STAR criteria | the scope of the US program. Sonos brand products are not in the scope of non-US ENERGY STAR programs. | |
TC-HW-410a.4 | Weight of end-of-life products and e-waste | We recovered 217 metric tons of end-of-life products in FY22 across our North America; Asia Pacific; and European, Middle East and Africa regions. |
recovered, percentage recycled |
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Supply Chain Management
SASB Code | Metric |
TC-HW-430a.1 | Percentage of Tier 1 supplier facilities audited |
in the RBA Validated Audit Process (VAP) or | |
equivalent, by (a) all facilities and (b) high-risk | |
facilities |
2022 Response
In FY22, we assessed 100% of our key suppliers through a mix of supplier participation in the Responsible Business Alliance Self Assessment Questionnaire and in-person audits. We conducted in-person audits of approximately 71% of key suppliers, progressing toward our FY25 goal to audit 100% of key suppliers annually.
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TC-HW-430a.2 Tier 1 suppliers' (1) non-conformance rate with the RBA Validated Audit Process (VAP) or equivalent, and (2) associated corrective action rate for (a) priority non-conformances and (b) other non-conformances
In FY22, we identified a total of 359 findings during audits, deeming 12 critical (3.3%), 212 major (59.1%) and 135 minor (37.6%). Of the critical and major issues, 89.7% were closed within the target time, progressing toward our FY25 goal of 95% of critical and major issues closed within target time. Most commonly, issues concerned working hours, followed by emergency preparedness, response and emergency exists.
Top Nonconformance Categories in FY22 (by number of instances flagged during audits)
Working hours | 40 |
Emergency preparedness and response | 21 |
Industrial hygiene | 10 |
Occupational safety | 5 |
Food, sanitation and housing | 5 |
Freely chosen employment | 4 |
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Materials Sourcing
SASB Code | Metric | 2022 Response |
TC-HW-440a.1 | Description of the management of risks | Sonos relies on third-party platforms and partners to identify and manage risks associated with the use of critical materials. As risks are |
associated with the use of critical materials | identified, we work with our supply chain to reformulate raw materials, or to identify alternative materials, parts or suppliers as needed. |
Activity Metric
SASB Code | Metric | Response |
TC-HW-000.A | Number of units produced by product category | Sonos sold 6.282 million products in FY22. |
TC-HW-000.B | Area of manufacturing facilities (square feet) | Sonos does not currently track this information. |
TC-HW-000.C | Percentage of production from owned facilities | Sonos does not own any production facilities. |
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Water Management
SASB Code | Metric | 2022 Response |
CG-HP-140a.1 | (1) Total water withdrawn, (2) total water | Not reported. |
consumed, percentage of each in regions with | ||
High or Extremely High Baseline Water Stress | ||
CG-HP-140a.2 | Description of water management risks and | Although our business is not water intensive, we aim to conserve water whenever possible, including at our offices. |
discussion of strategies and practices to | ||
mitigate those risks |
Product Environmental, Health, and Safety Performance
SASB Code | Metric | 2022 Response |
CG-HP-250a.1 | Revenue from products that contain Registration, | Sonos does not track its product revenue against the REACH Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) list. Sonos manages the presence of |
Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of | REACH SVHCs by complying with the applicable parts of the EU Directive. | |
Chemicals (REACH) substances of very high | ||
concern | ||
CG-HP-250a.2 | Revenue from products that contain substances | Sonos does not track its product revenue against the California DTSC Candidate Chemicals List. Sonos manages the presence of chemicals |
on the California DTSC Candidate Chemicals List | on the California DTSC Candidate Chemicals List by complying with the applicable parts of California Proposition 65. | |
CG-HP-250a.3 | Discussion of process to identify and manage | Sonos is legally obligated to meet all applicable global regulations and directives on restricted, banned, or reportable substances and chemicals |
emerging materials and chemicals of concern | in Sonos' products. As part of this compliance obligation, Sonos uses multiple tools, resources, partners, and processes to monitor and react | |
to the evolving requirements of applicable regulations and directives. Some of these evolving requirements cover emerging materials and | ||
chemicals of concern. | ||
CG-HP-250a.4 | Revenue from products designed with green | Sonos does not track its product revenue against green chemistry principles. Green chemistry principles often overlap with the legal obligation |
chemistry principles | placed on Sonos to meet all applicable global regulations and directives on restricted, banned, or reportable substances and chemicals in | |
Sonos products. |
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