Agilent makes its debut

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Agilent Technologies has reported for the first time on its environmental and social performance.

The California-based technology company, formed in November 1999 after Hewlett Packard split into two independent companies, has used the Global Reporting Initiative to provide the framework for its 36-page report.

Dreams made real includes four pages on community involvement, health and safety, and employee satisfaction.

Its social performance section includes a pledge to increase the number of people employed from under-represented groups.

More than three-quarters of the company’s US executives and senior managers are white males.

On community involvement, the report says more than 20,000 employees spend a total of 250,000 hours a year helping schools and charities.

Agilent employs 47,000 people in more than 120 countries. Last year it gave $17million (£12m) in equipment and money to institutions and charities.