People & Places
Our people are what make 66°North
We know that great employees are companies most valuable resource. We believe in giving talented people of all ages career opportunities and we recognize the importance of providing them with desirable working environment that they can be proud of and enables them to develop and be healthy.
Our employees active participation in shaping the company’s future is extremely valuable. The company holds an annual event where all employees come together, brainstorm and discuss as a team about how we can succeed further as a workplace and as a company. The results from these meetings have then been utilized in formulating some of our most important strategies, including our sustainability strategy.
Equal Rights Program 2025–2028
The objective of Sjóklæðagerðin’s Equal Rights Program is to establish and maintain equality and equal opportunities for all employees. The program aims to ensure gender pay equality and equal terms of employment, as well as equal opportunities for professional growth. It outlines specific goals and action plans to achieve these objectives and applies to all employees at Sjóklæðagerðin.
The program is developed in accordance with Act No. 150/2020 and other legislation pertaining to equality. It is applicable to everyone employed by Sjóklæðagerðin.
Objectives
Sjóklæðagerðin is committed to ensuring equal rights and opportunities for all, regardless of gender, origin, religion, age, place of residence, sexual orientation, race, or any other distinguishing factor. The company emphasizes the equal treatment of all employees in terms of pay, working conditions, and opportunities.
In this context, gender refers to women, men, and individuals registered with a neutral gender in the national registry, unless otherwise specified.
Sjóklæðagerðin has received Equal Pay Certification in accordance with Article 7 of Act No. 150/2020. The company completes annual audits to maintain the certification and undergoes full recertification every three years.
Sjóklæðagerðin’s objectives include:
- Guaranteeing equal rights regardless of gender, origin, religion, age, place of residence, sexual orientation, race, or other differentiating factors
- Ensuring equal pay and terms for jobs of equal or comparable value
- Providing all individuals with an equal right to apply for open positions, regardless of gender
- Offering equal access to training, professional development, and education
- Supporting flexibility in the workplace and a healthy balance between work and personal life
- Ensuring smooth and efficient reintegration into the workplace following parental leave or family-related leave
- Maintaining a zero-tolerance policy toward bullying, gender-based violence, gender-based harassment, and sexual harassment
The Equal Rights Policy was approved by the Executive Board on 19 May 2025.
We conduct an annual employee satisfaction survey, provided by the largest union in Iceland, with the aim to improve our employee satisfaction from year to year. Since August 2018 we have implement an additional monthly survey for all employees that will enable us to react even faster and in a more focused manner to the survey results. We offer employees tracking of health conditions once a year.
HR Monitor
HR Monitor is like a heart rate monitor that measures how healthy the company is in real time, every month.
We conduct a monthly employee satisfaction survey via HR Monitor for both in Iceland and Denmark
We listen and measure what our employees have to say.
We do it to improve our working environment and working engagement. Every month we view with our staff and managers the result and celebrate on the good and we react on the things we need to improve.
2022 performance
4.46 (Ratings are from 1 - 5)
4.62
Client relations4.31
Job satisfaction4.41
Empowerment4.45
Support from managers4.54
High standards4.46
Long-term orientation4.51
Enthusiasm, commitment & respect4.41
Training & developmentNurturing our people
66°North Academy
The 66°North Academy's main goal is to offer and create a space in the workday for employees to grow their knowledge and take care of their health. This is achieved by offering employees to participate in scheduled activities and courses. The Academy promotes both physical and mental health through activities such as yoga, hiking, meditation, and courses on self-empowerment.
Visiting us for the first time or have been shopping with us for 20 years, our stores offer a chance to experience the garments first hand, get expert advice. Alternatively you can re-cycle items you no longer need, get a garment repaired, or collect your online orders
Places we operate
We run our own production facility in Saldus and Aizpute, Latvia where we have around 170 employees producing 41% of our styles. Operating our own production facility gives us the advantage of knowing each step of our production processes; what goes into the product, how the product is being handled as well as it facilities traceability and overall overview. Our facility is run by EU regulations about labor laws and workplace health and safety. All our employees in Latvia have labor insurance.
This is what we produce
Seam sealed garments (e.g. shell jackets), fleece garments, rainwear / fisherman garments, workwear, trousers, gloves, mittens and leg gaiters and special production.
Long-term partners
We have established trusted and close relationships with our production partners for over a decade. We only work with partners that ensure employees well-being and follow regulations about labor, health and safety of their country. To ensure this we conduct our own audits during the production of our product line.
Our production partners are based in the following cities:
- Nantong, China
- Porto, Portugal
- Borås, Sweden
- Povoa de Varzim, Portugal
- Hong Kong, China
- Campina, Romania
Reducing waste
In our closest surroundings, where we can have the most impact, we try to make choices that have as minimal environmental impact as possible.
Waste
From 2015, we have been sorting waste in our headquarters and in our stores in up to five different recycling categories. At the same time, we stopped purchasing disposable cups for our coffee and built a policy of only purchasing biodegradable and non-toxic cleaning products and led light bulbs.
Energy
We are fortunate that we come from a country that is almost solely driven by renewable energy and therefore our headquarters and the majority of our stores are driven by renewable energy. In countries outside of Iceland, we use renewable energy whenever available which amounts to 78.9% of our energy being renewable.
Paper Bags in-store
Our shopping bags are all made of recyclable paper and we encourage our customers to recycle them. The paper comes from a responsible source, www.fsc.org. Our e-commerce shipping bags are made in recycled non-colored paper.
Stores
13 storesLaugavegur 17-19
Iceland
Hafnartorg, Bryggjugata 7
Iceland
Bankastræti 5
Iceland
Faxafen 12
Iceland
Kringlan
Iceland
Smáralind
Iceland
Miðhraun 11
Iceland
Outlet Store in Faxafen 12
Iceland
Hafnarstæti 94, Akureyri
Iceland
Skipagata 9, Akureyri
Iceland
KEF - Keflavík Airport
Iceland
Regent Street 100, London
United Kingdom
Sværtegade 12, Copenhagen
Denmark
Factories
1 factoriesSaldus
Latvia
Warehouses
2 warehouseMiðhraun 11
Iceland
Saldus
Latvia
Offices
3 officesHeadquarters, Miðhraun, Garðabær
Iceland
Showroom & office, Vestergade, Copenhagen
Denmark
Office, Regent Street, London
United Kingdom
