Our Business

Creating opportunities through our business practices.

At 3M, we use our unique capabilities as a science company to ensure fair and inclusive business practices.

Business Group Commitments

We’re committed to fair access to opportunities and innovation for our people, communities, and business partners globally.

3M’s business groups have established their own commitments to advance diversity and inclusion, both in the products they create for their customers and philanthropy and partnerships. Each commitment is uniquely ownable for the business group: bold, measurable, globally scalable and aligned to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Learn more in our annual report.

More about our commitments to advancing access to opportunities and innovation.

At 3M we are committed to ensuring our value chain creates access and opportunities. This commitment extends throughout our supply chains through our supplier, customer, and government engagements.

Supplier Diversity Program

Providing access to opportunities for diverse business owners.

Supplier Diversity helps 3M in our efforts to be a more creative, innovative and competitive company, while better meeting the needs of our customers and the communities we serve.

Our GAME Changer program was designed to build the capabilities and capacity of diverse suppliers through Growth, Advocacy, Mentoring and Education (GAME).
Inclusion through innovation

Creating products with inclusion in mind.

Our Environmental and Community Resilience team supports our New Product Introduction (NPI) teams in creating products for diverse customer needs. Through our Sustainable Value Commitment, our NPI process applies an inclusion lens to the innovation process, solution, function and/or design.

NPI teams consider how they can use inclusive design principles and improve access for all customers throughout every new product’s journey from concept to our customers’ hands.
Government Engagement

Collaborating with advocacy organizations to advance policy outcomes.

3M is committed to working with other companies and advocacy organizations focused on increasing access to opportunities in communities where we live and work. For example, 3M, along with over 50 organizations, is a member of the Minnesota Business Coalition for Racial Equity (MBCRE), which works with the business community to build an inclusive and prosperous state with and for Black Minnesotans.
Environmental and Community Resilience

Solving the pressing challenges facing our 3M communities.

3M advocates for environmental and community resilience in areas where we live and work. By leveraging our expertise and capabilities alongside community stakeholders and convening across sectors, we address important challenges facing our communities. This aligns with and deepens our ongoing environmental commitments in our communities regarding water, air, energy and waste management.

3M is an equal opportunity employer. 3M will not discriminate against any applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. If you need special assistance or an accommodation for a disability in order to apply for a posted position, call our Human Resources department at (877) 496-3636.