Atlassian Human Rights Statement

Atlassian is a global software company on a mission to unleash the potential of every team. We build tools for team collaboration and productivity – like Jira, Confluence, Loom, and Rovo – to work better together.
We know that every decision we make has a real impact on our employees, customers, business partners, and community, and we want that impact to be an empowering one for those who cross our paths. Transparency and accountability live at the core of our business and form the foundation of our human rights approach.
This Human Rights Statement is an explicit pledge to uphold our human rights commitments, meant to guide our decision-making and hold us accountable to the public. Every Atlassian has a responsibility to hold each other to these promises by staying vigilant, reporting violations, and doing our part to champion the rights of every human being in our corporate ecosystem.

Our Commitment
Businesses have a responsibility to respect human rights. This means avoiding infringement on the human rights of others and addressing adverse human rights impacts they’re involved in. As a software company, Atlassian recognizes that we can have positive or adverse impacts on human rights, including the rights to privacy; non-discrimination; and a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment.
Businesses have a responsibility to respect human rights. This means avoiding infringement on the human rights of others and addressing adverse human rights impacts they’re involved in. As a software company, Atlassian recognizes that we can have positive or adverse impacts on human rights, including the rights to privacy; non-discrimination; and a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment.
We are committed to respecting human rights as defined by the International Bill of Rights – which is made up of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights – as well as principles set out in the International Labor Organization Declaration on Fundamental Principles at Work. To understand and address our human rights impacts, Atlassian is guided by our values, mission, and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, a set of guidelines for companies and states to prevent, address, and remedy human rights abuses. Beyond respecting human rights, we seek to promote and advance positive human rights impacts through our products and services and our role as an employer.
Beyond respecting human rights, we seek to promote and advance positive human rights impacts through our products and services and our role as an employer.
This Human Rights Statement applies to all countries and regions in which we operate and informs our actions to address risks to our employees, contingent workers, customers and users, business partners, and suppliers. We commit to complying with applicable laws and regulations where Atlassian does business. Where our commitments to human rights exceed the requirements of applicable law, we will seek to uphold the higher standard.

I. Employees and Contingent Workers
Every Atlassian has the right to work in an environment that is respectful, professional, and free from all forms of discrimination, harassment, bullying, and retaliation. We count on all of our colleagues to help ensure that all our employees around the globe, with diverse beliefs and viewpoints, work in an inclusive environment where they feel safe and comfortable to bring their full selves to work. We do not tolerate discrimination against or harassment of employees, consultants, or contractors. Atlassian offers several ways to report any experience of discrimination, harassment, bullying, or retaliation, listed at the bottom of this Statement in “Raising Concerns & Grievances.”
We are committed to respecting our employees’ fundamental rights at work, including non-discrimination, equal pay for equal work, fair and just remuneration, privacy, and a safe workplace. Our commitments to and expectations of our employees are detailed in our policies and guidelines, including the Code of Business Conduct & Ethics.
Atlassian is also committed to ensuring that all our employees have equal access to opportunities within the workplace. We strive to create an authentic culture of inclusion, whereby every individual feels valued, respected, and supported, and we aim for nothing short of equity for every Atlassian. We believe in a structural approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work that spans across how we hire, promote, and retain our people. Our Head of DEI is responsible for setting our strategy and roadmap, including milestones for diverse hiring and accessibility as it relates to our employees. Our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are employee-led and play a vital role in fostering an authentic culture of inclusion at Atlassian. We aim to have DEI be part of everything we do at Atlassian. Read our careers site to see how we are unleashing the potential of our own team.
We regularly evaluate and communicate honestly, both to employees and the public through regular updates, most notably our annual Sustainability Report, about how we are living up to (and/or falling short of) our DEI commitments

II. Customers
We are committed to respecting the rights of customers of our products and services, and we recognize that customers can host potentially harmful content or may use our products in ways that harm others. We set clear standards for how our products must be used, and define what constitutes abuse or misuse in our Acceptable Use Policy. Under this policy, we also reserve the right to remove content that is inconsistent with the spirit of the policy and may permanently or temporarily suspend or terminate a user’s account or access to services if Atlassian determines that a user has violated this policy.
We believe privacy is a fundamental human right, which means that we embrace privacy by design in everything we do. As part of our Privacy Principles, we are committed to being transparent about how we collect, use, and share information, and delivering a familiar, straightforward privacy structure. Our Trust Center includes the latest information on the security, reliability, privacy, and compliance of our products and services.
We consider accessibility essential in our products to ensure all our customers have an equitable experience. We have a Central Accessibility team that drives, supports, and advocates for initiatives to help teams across the company research, design, build, test and support products, content, and experiences that are inclusive and usable by the broadest range of people – especially people with disabilities. Our Accessibility Program aims to deliver highly usable experiences for people living with disabilities while also changing the way we work so each team considers accessibility as a natural part of our design and engineering lifecycle.
III. Business Partners & Suppliers
Atlassian’s Supplier Code of Conduct sets our expectations for our partners and suppliers, including a directive to conduct business in a responsible manner, with integrity and high ethical standards, and in compliance with the law. Other obligations include complying with all applicable laws on nondiscrimination and anti-harassment in hiring and employment, promoting safe and secure workplaces, respecting employees’ lawful right of free association, and complying with all applicable laws on work hours, overtime, wages, and benefits.
Suppliers will only employ workers with a legal right to work. Atlassian does not tolerate any form of modern slavery or human trafficking in our business, and we are fully committed to preventing and detecting it. In compliance with the United Kingdom’s Modern Slavery Act (2015) and Australia’s Modern Slavery Act (2018), Atlassian outlines the steps we have taken to reduce harm and prevent modern slavery by identifying and developing a strategy designed to better manage our exposure and ensure continuous improvement of the risks of modern slavery to our supply chain and business operations.
Suppliers and business partners are subject to various forms of due diligence, including self-attestation of internal policies and controls. Tailored due diligence and risk assessments are performed on our business partners and supply chain by the Supplier Risk team and specialized risk domains. These due diligence processes ensure we contract with reputable suppliers across all procurement categories and minimizes our exposure to modern slavery and other labor rights issues. Atlassian reserves the right to investigate any instances of a supplier’s non-compliance of which it becomes aware. Non-compliance may be grounds for Atlassian to void or terminate contractual obligations with a supplier without penalty.

IV. Community & Planet
The UN recognizes that a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment is a human right (Resolution 48/13) and climate change has profound impacts on a wide variety of other human rights. Moreover, the impacts of climate change are not borne equally or fairly. Often, marginalized, underserved, and vulnerable communities can be more susceptible to risks posed by climate impacts.
Given these significant impacts on our planet and community, Atlassian aims to be sustainable in everything we do. Atlassian runs our operations on 100% renewable electricity and has committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2040 on a 1.5C pathway. As part of that net-zero commitment, the Science-Based Targets initiative has approved our near-term 2025 targets to reduce our emissions related to our operations, business travel, and supply chain, as well as our long-term 2040 targets.
We engage in public-policy efforts that address key social, economic, environmental, and political issues. In addition, we participate in multi-company initiatives and collaborations to learn, share, and advocate for business and human rights issues. These can be found in our annual Sustainability Report.
We recognize and respect the rights of vulnerable groups that face disproportionate risks of adverse impacts from business, including indigenous peoples. In 2023, Atlassian submitted and had accepted its first Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), complying with the Reconciliation Australia framework. RAPs work to provide tangible and substantive benefits for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, increasing economic equity and supporting First Nations self-determination. As part of our commitment to First Nations in Australia, we are formalizing how we continue to connect with and support First Nations communities and educate our growing Australian Atlassian community on the importance of reconciliation.
The Atlassian Foundation is helping unleash the potential of social impact teams – particularly teams changing lives through education. As a company, we contribute 1% of our equity, profit, employee time and products to the Foundation.

Our Approach
Governance & Due Diligence
This statement is approved by our CEO and co-founder, and implementation is led by our Sustainability team, in collaboration with teams across Atlassian. We will review this statement annually and continuously improve our ability to fulfill our commitments. We have a Human Rights Working Group with representatives from the Sustainability, Public Policy, Privacy, Commercial Legal, and Risk teams that focuses on integrating a human rights approach across Atlassian. We conduct ongoing human rights due diligence to identify any actual, or potential, adverse human rights impacts that we may cause, contribute to, or be directly linked with, either through our own activities or as a result of our business relationships. When we do identify potential human rights impacts, we work to prevent and mitigate those impacts. As part of our approach to human rights due diligence, we conducted an internal human rights assessment and included the findings in Atlassian’s enterprise risk management process. These are revisited regularly to prioritize the most salient risks, assign responsibility, and track progress. We conduct proactive due diligence across our value chain, including ahead of mergers and acquisitions, entering markets, and during product development for artificial intelligence features. We also redesigned and implemented a process that uses human rights and integrity risk factors to assess customers, though more work remains to turn this into ongoing and proactive customer due diligence.
Responsible Technology
At Atlassian, we know that while technology can drive our and our customers’ missions forward, we also recognize that it is not a neutral tool. Because technology is a reflection of our societies, this means that it can also be misused or amplify existing or new risks. This can impact many different groups of people, including customers who use the technology we develop; employees, contractors, and candidates who are affected by the technology we use internally; and wider society. That is why we are committed to taking accountability for using technologies like AI responsibly and in line with our company values. Our Responsible Technology Principles guide our efforts, ensuring that we uphold these values in practice and integrate them into our decision-making processes.
Our governance of responsible technology is led by the Responsible Technology Working Group, which is made up of AI ethics, regulatory affairs, privacy, human rights, and DEI experts, working alongside Atlassian product and related teams. This group helps deepen our practices to identify, mitigate, and raise awareness of AI risks and opportunities.
This includes our responsible technology reviews, an assessment tool that is being used across teams that develop, deploy, and use AI solutions. The review helps teams build a shared understanding of how their project affects employees, customers, and community stakeholders. We shared the template and an accompanying guide publicly to both demonstrate accountability for the commitments in our Principles and inspire other companies to adopt responsible technology practices.
Reporting
We recognize that transparency and accountability are central to earning the trust of our employees, partners, and customers. In the spirit of one of our values, “open company, no bullshit,” we report publicly on our sustainability, DEI, and human rights commitments through an annual Sustainability Report – details on all of the above can be found there. We take a progress-over-perfection approach to sustainability, and we are committed to disclosing what’s working and what’s not.
We publish a regular Transparency Report, disclosing law enforcement requests to access customer information (where permitted), and remove content or suspend user accounts, including whether and how we complied. As stated in our Guidelines for Law Enforcement Requests, we carefully review requests to ensure they comply with the law and are within the powers of the requesting authority or law enforcement official.
Stakeholder Engagement
Atlassian believes it is important to engage in consultation with diverse stakeholders to ensure a full understanding of how our company’s actions and decisions can affect individuals and groups. Potentially affected stakeholders include internal stakeholders (employees and contingent workers), and external stakeholders (suppliers, partners, customers, and end users of products). They also include civil society groups that focus on human rights, shareholders, and responsible investors.
Atlassian welcomes the opportunity to engage with organizations and other stakeholders to better understand human rights issues related to our company, our value chain, and the community and planet at large. We will proactively engage these groups and conduct proper due diligence, and we can be reached via email at any time: sustainability@atlassian.com.
Raising Concerns & Grievances
Atlassian offers multiple channels to our employees, customers, contingent workers, suppliers, and business partners to report concerns. In the event that you cannot raise a concern to your supervisor or Atlassian point of contact, or via customer support channels, you may communicate with the Compliance Officer through the following channels:
- In writing by email to Compliance-Officer@atlassian.com (this option does not allow for anonymous reporting)
- Anonymously via the Atlassian Ethics and Compliance Portal
- Calling 1.800.461.9330 in the United States or 1.800.763.983 in Australia; for other locations, visit https://www.atlassian.com/ethics
- Submitting a report at https://www.atlassian.com/ethics, a secure web portal powered by Convercent, a third-party provider.
The above methods are preferred, but you may also send an anonymous message by mail, addressed to:
Compliance Officer, Atlassian Corporation
350 Bush Street, 13th Floor
San Francisco, California 94104 USA
We promote awareness of these reporting channels through policies and communications. We prohibit retaliation against anyone who, in good faith, raises a grievance or concern.
