2021 Environmental Social Governance (ESG) Report

Workforce and Talent Our people are at the center of everything we do, and we believe our workforce is a key differentiator in the market. We seek to develop, nurture and empower our people to do their best work. Cushman & Wakefield is an equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and hiring the best talent in the industry, which includes using practices to attract and retain historically underrepresented talent. Our DEI and People teams work to increase representation of historically underrepresented groups across all our businesses, including our brokerage/fee earner positions. Practices include consideration of diverse pools of candidates for recruiting as well as mentoring, sponsorship and support programs.

leadership and focusing on increasing diversity at all levels of our organization, from the Board of Directors to employees. To further drive DEI as a top priority, we’ve outlined DEI goals for our executives linked to diverse hiring, performance review completion rates and visible leadership related to DEI. In 2022, as part of the performance management process for all global employees, the DEI and People teams partnered to introduce goals to support each employee’s individual contribution to grow our culture of inclusion. Increasing transparency around diversity data will help hold us accountable as we make progress toward our goals. In addition to continuing to report metrics around gender and age, for the first time in 2022, we are reporting the diversity of our workforce by level and race/ethnicity in the U.S. We’ve also started reporting age by generation, as these categorizations don’t change as people age and can give us more insight into things like working styles and preferences over time. See a full break down of our people data in the Index of this report.

Increasing Data Transparency and Accountability

With 50,000 employees around the world, we believe an important part of inclusion and belonging is being able to see representation of historically underrepresented talent within

Employees by Gender Over the years, we’ve made great progress advancing gender parity in our employee population, and Cushman & Wakefield is currently an industry leader on this front.

People Managers

Total Workforce

New Hires

Board of Directors

Executives

WOMEN 42%

40% WOMEN

40% WOMEN

42% WOMEN

22% WOMEN

Compared to 39% in 2020

Compared to 40% in 2020

Compared to 42% in 2020

Compared to 19% in 2020

Compared to 33% as reported in 2020 CSR Report

Notes: • Gender data is self-reported by employees. • These figures represent our workforce as of year-end 2021, with the exception of the stat for our Board of Directors, which reflects the current makeup of our board as of the publication of this report. • The comparison figures represent year-end 2020, with the exception of the stat for our Board of Directors, which reflects the makeup of our board at the time of publication for the 2020 CSR Report.

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