Veritiv employees are driven by our Veritiv CODE of Values: Cultivate Innovation, Own It, Deliver and Delight, and Embrace the Green. These values shape our business and define who we are as a company. Our organization places employee satisfaction at the top of the priority list, consistently seeking feedback and searching for areas of improvement to make work feel like home. We emphasize a One Team mindset, which embraces diverse perspectives that foster collaboration. By holding professional career development sessions, integrating our five Employee Resource Groups that motivate employee expression, and conduct regular employee engagement surveys and pulse surveys to gather employee suggestions and feedback, Veritiv strives to uphold these core values and create an uplifting work environment.

Our CEO Sal Abbate demonstrates excellent intuition for the key elements of change to positively impact the employee experience. He set out to better understand from employees at all levels what they liked about the culture, what they didn’t, and what they wanted to see changed. The result was more than 600 employees from across North America participating in a series of small-group, live video roundtable sessions with Sal and other senior leaders. Feedback was transformed into action plans implemented over the past three years. From simple things like “Dress for Your Day” to the more complex new profit sharing for 4,700 employees who were not previously eligible for a bonus, Sal uses all tools at his discretion to meaningfully boost morale.
Sal’s “Listening Tour,” set the tone among employees for his open, collaborative, and approachable leadership style. Sal makes time to talk to many employees, including regular site visits to our numerous office and warehouse locations. He leads monthly, live All Employee Webcasts as a forum to answer questions and hear suggestions employees have about the business, company news and other initiatives.
Sal initiated Veritiv’s first All Employee Survey in 2022. In the comments in the 2023 survey, employees expressed overwhelming optimism and pride about the direction Veritiv is moving under Sal’s leadership. They appreciate his transparent communication and his consistent commitment to positive change.

Employees note time and time again that the community at Veritiv and the people they work with are the primary reason for staying at the organization. Our commitment to our people is a strong motivator for employee satisfaction and ensuring employees feel empowered and comfortable with their team. Still, the relationships the employees form independently drastically impact our workplace environment and motivate them to continue their careers for years.
As a company, we foster frequent, engaging communication via our internal communications platform, Vibe, to connect our locations around the world and make the company feel like a community where diverse perspectives are met with enthusiasm. We conduct regular Employee Engagement Surveys and Internal Net Promoter Score (NPS) surveys. Managers and leaders are required to create specific action plans with their teams as a result of these surveys. Our monthly All Employee Webcasts are also an open forum for all employees to ask questions of our CEO and other senior leaders. We also now have five Employee Resource Groups (Women, African-American, LBGTQ+, Hispanic/Latin, Veterans/Military Families) aimed at giving a voice to underrepresented groups across the organization.
In 2022, we brought together our 600 people leaders in person to collaborate on how to improve the Employee Experience and the Customer Experience and to develop action plans across the organization. Key was providing a forum where they could share their perspectives from their part of the organization.

According to our most recent Employee Engagement Survey, 88% of employees believe “there is good cooperation and collaboration across my team or group,” up 2 points from 2022. Collaboration has been a key focus across all of our company priorities. We implemented an Internal Net Promoter Score (NPS) survey in 2022 to enable employees to provide positive and constructive feedback to other departments they interact with on a regular basis. We also implemented an online recognition platform called BRAVO! (through Achievers) to reinforce collaboration and a One Team focus.

Some of our benefits include:
-Profit-sharing plans for all employees
– Veritiv will match 100% of the first 3% contributed from a paycheck, plus an additional 50% on the next 2% – this comes out to Veritiv matching 4% of the first 5% contributed. The Veritiv match is immediately vested.
-Tuition reimbursement program
-Annual Scholarship Program for children of Veritiv employees
-Charitable Contributions matching up to $10,000 per employee, per year
-Paid parental bonding time for mothers and fathers, including for adopted children
-Additional investment in health care programs made for 2023 so employee’s health premiums remained the same or were lower.
-Additional holiday and additional floating holiday added in 2023
-8 hours Volunteer Time Off annually for each employee added in 2024