You read that right, your company isn’t diverse enough. Your staff doesn’t reflect your customer base … here’s are the benefits your competitors who have a more inclusive and diverse workforce are experiencing
- 67% of job seekers said a diverse workforce is important when considering job offers.
- Inclusive companies are 1.7 times more likely to be innovative leaders in their market.
- Diverse teams can solve problems faster than cognitively similar people.
- Companies with diverse workforce make better decisions faster, which gives them a serious advantage over their competitors. As a result, companies with diversity in the workplace achieve better business results and reap more profit.
Unless employers move away from hiring ‘people like us’, the strengths of neurodivergent individuals will go unused and firms will miss out on specialist talent.
More than a third of black and minority ethnic (BAME) workers (34%) had abandoned their birth name on their CV or in the workplace at least once in their career.
Under the Equality Act 2010, treating someone differently or less favourably based on their race is direct discrimination.
Twenty-eight percent of those that did use a Western work name felt they were offered more roles, and 27% said they were invited to more interviews.
Almost four in 10 BAME workers had adapted other aspects of their identity to ‘fit in’ at work. This included changing their appearance, what they ate and adhering to other religious or cultural practices.
In our beliefs, these are not environments or cultures that scream out inclusion to us which to us is defined as the behaviours and social norms that ensure people feel welcome
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