Introduction Transforming care Investing in our people Accelerating possibilities Protecting the environment Creating value responsibly Appendix Enhancing talent review and succession processes Employee engagement Our development efforts are aimed at matching our employees' Boston Scientific is a place where people speak up, ask questions 2022 employee engagement capabilities and goals with business needs. We continue to and make a difference. Our culture is built on inclusion and a improve talent processes for those with the potential and desire collective belief that everyone’s ideas, ambitions and careers survey results to advance at Boston Scientific. To ensure our leadership reflects matter. We use a comprehensive listening strategy to elicit the diversity of our customers and employees, we introduced feedback from people and make improvements based on their additional training for managing bias that we will deploy globally input. Having multiple communication and feedback channels 80% in 2023 as part of the talent review process. To support these helps our people leaders better manage their teams. practices, in 2022 we enhanced our technology to identify overall employee critical roles and high potential talent across the organization. Employee engagement pulse survey engagement score We are leveraging this technology as we nominate leaders With a 76% response rate, nearly 32,500 employees participated for key development programs and build a more robust in our companywide, voluntary engagement pulse survey in succession bench. 2022. Their responses produced a score of 80% or higher across Our regional, functional and divisional leaders meet regularly four key areas. We are using these results to help support 85% to assess their teams’ performances and development plans. retention, enhance leadership training and expand resources extremely satisfied The Executive Committee conducts quarterly and annual talent where people need them. Employee engagement is also a key working at component of our environmental, social and governance (ESG) Boston Scientific reviews to gain insights about our succession pipeline, and the scorecard that is part of our annual employee bonus program. board and its Nominating and Governance Committee review CEO succession planning annually. Our Executive Committee Learn more about our ESG scorecard in our 2023 Proxy Statement. succession is also reviewed annually by the Board of Directors. SPARK survey 85% Read more about our approach to talent development. Our SPARK survey gathers feedback about our people leaders would recommend from their direct reports. The digital questionnaire, which is Boston Scientific as an employer available in 14 languages, asks employees to rate their managers on leadership attributes. The results help people leaders reflect on their strengths and areas for development and serve as a basis for productive conversations with team members. 88% In 2022, more than 31,000 employees were invited to evaluate approximately 7,000 leaders. We had a response rate of 76%, are proud to work and 85% of people leaders received a feedback report. at Boston Scientific 25 2022 Performance Report