The Equal-Salary Certification that Ferrari S.p.A. achieved one year ago was only the beginning of a long-term process involving all stages of its people management and development, not a result merely to be preserved but a commitment requiring ongoing renewal.

This is confirmed by the PwC monitoring visit which concluded successfully in the last few days. The auditing company looked not only at equal pay by gender – already assessed in the first audit – but extensively and in depth at the various initiatives that took place over the last 12 months to make our work environment ever more inclusive.

This was enabled by listening to and involving Ferrari people, from the Chairman to the colleagues who took part in interviews and focus groups on the theme of valuing diversity.

Ferrari North America confirmed Equal-Salary certification recently as well, a sign of change underway and destined to continue. Equal opportunities are the best way to ensure that merit is the decisive factor that it should be and to keep on attracting, retaining and developing the talents that accelerate Ferrari’s innovation in the future.

Aloe arborescens, blue buddleja , dianthus carthusianorum … we’re not talking about a greenhouse. These are just some of the hundreds of species of plants found in the factory in Maranello. It doesn’t matter where you are on the campus, whether sitting on a bench during a short break or at work in one of the production departments, a flowering bush, fern or an evergreen is never far away. The colourful orange poppies along the engine assembly line and the exotic, tropical lillies in the machining department are just two examples of the extraordinary array of flora that characterises every part of the factory. There are 25,000 plants on campus, with trees, flower beds and gardens around every corner. This is a further demonstration of how Ferrari’s technologically advanced production facilities are designed and built around the workers’ well-being, with the emphasis very much on the quality of the working environment.