Our sustainability work is currently structured around five key focus areas. These pillars guide our commitment to minimizing environmental impact, fostering an inclusive workplace, ensuring fair labor practices across our supply chain, strengthening digital security, and upholding the highest ethical standards in our operations and partnerships. In 2024, Yubico took a significant step by starting to prepare for sustainability reporting according to the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). To support this transition, key employees and the management team conducted a series of in-depth workshops to analyze the entire value chain, covering upstream, downstream, and operational activities. This was followed by a Double Materiality Assessment (DMA) to identify and prioritize the most relevant and impactful sustainability topics for Yubico. Leveraging these insights, we carried out a GAP analysis to evaluate our alignment with CSRD reporting metrics and developed a clear roadmap to bridge any identified gaps. Looking ahead to 2025, our focus will be to continue to prepare to meet the framework’s reporting requirements for the full year of 2025. Read more in our Annual Report for the full year of 2024.
Sustainability
Yubico’s overall vision is to make secure login easy and available for everyone. From a societal perspective, IT security is essential to ensure safe communication and to protect customers, citizens and, by extension, democracies.
Climate and environmental responsibility
Circular Economy
Production and Distribution:
Yubico aims for safe, sustainable, and cost-effective manufacturing, with centralized production in Sweden to reduce emissions and optimize shipments.
Reducing Waste:
Yubico minimizes waste across its product lifecycle by complying with WEEE and EPR regulations, promoting recycling, and avoiding single-use materials at events.
Climate Compensation:
Yubico offsets business travel emissions and, through its partnership with Solvatten, helped deploy 86 clean water units in 2024, preventing 600 tons of CO₂.
Energy
Environmentally Certified Offices:
Yubico’s offices, including those in Santa Clara and Seattle, are LEED-certified to ensure energy efficiency and reduced environmental impact.
Protecting critical IT infrastructure
Code of Conduct:
Yubico’s Board-approved Code of Conduct outlines ethical standards and human rights commitments aligned with international principles, applying to employees and business partners alike.
Whistleblowing:
Yubico provides a secure and confidential whistleblowing process, enhanced in 2024, to uphold ethical standards and ensure fair handling of reported misconduct.
Corruption and Bribery:
Yubico enforces a zero-tolerance policy on corruption and bribery, requiring ethical conduct from employees and partners in line with anti-corruption laws.
Relationships with Suppliers:
Yubico ensures ethical and sustainable practices across its supply chain through a Supplier Code of Conduct and ongoing engagement to drive compliance.
Policies, Employee Onboarding and Early Training:
All new employees are trained on company policies like the Code of Conduct and whistleblowing, with annual refresher training to reinforce awareness.
Supporting diversity
Value Chain Workers’ Working Conditions:
Yubico enforces safe, fair, and ethical labor practices across its value chain through a Supplier Code of Conduct aligned with international standards.
Value Chain Workers’ Equal Treatment and Opportunities:
Yubico promotes non-discrimination and equal opportunity among suppliers, guided by a zero-tolerance policy and ongoing engagement to uphold DEI principles.
Workforce-Related Rights in the Value Chain:
Yubico safeguards human rights in its value chain by preventing forced and child labor through continuous due diligence and policy alignment with global standards.
Inclusive workforce and employee development
Own Workforce Working Conditions:
Yubico ensures competitive, market-aligned compensation and benefits globally, conducts annual pay equity reviews, and supports employee growth through an Education Assistance Program.
Equal Treatment and Opportunities:
Yubico fosters a diverse, inclusive, and respectful workplace across 16 countries, with ongoing education on harassment prevention and a 2024 employee turnover rate of 10.27%.
Other Workforce-Related Rights:
Yubico supports employee-led ERGs that promote inclusivity, community, and engagement, including ESG-related activities like a company-wide Earth Day initiative.
Ensuring high ethical standards
Affected Communities:
Through the Secure it Forward program, Yubico donates one security key for every 20 sold to at-risk groups such as journalists, nonprofits, human rights activists, and climate organizations.
Democracy & Campaign Security:
Yubico technology has helped protect democratic institutions and election campaigns worldwide via partnerships with Defending Digital Campaigns and Microsoft Account Guard.
Consumers and End-Users:
Yubico is a pioneer in web authentication standards, providing open-source tools and contributing to global security protocols like FIDO, IETF, and W3C.
Global Deployment & Infrastructure Protection:
YubiKey and YubiHSM secure systems used by 19 of the world’s 20 largest internet companies, as well as critical infrastructure like energy plants and emergency services.
Public Education & Access:
To support its mission of digital security and informed usership, Yubico promotes passwordless authentication through free webinars, blogs, and developer resources, while continuing large-scale key donations.
