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equal opportunity employment journal
March 2022
8 Ways To Build Diversity And Inclusion in Your Work-From-Home Plan
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orking from home may feel singular, but it can be a catapult for any company’s diversity and inclusion efforts. Many companies quickly shifted operations to work from home (WFH) when the pandemic hit. And they found the wheels still turned, perhaps even faster, more efficiently and with higher quality.
So why not make WFH the new inclusive and diverse reality? A work from home model creates opportunities to hire, include and collaborate with a more diverse group of people and a higher level of talent – people who might not have been able to work under traditional structures.
Diversity & Inclusion Can Make Your Company Stronger Ethnically diverse companies are likely to perform 35% better than their counterparts, according to research from McKinsey. And gender-diverse companies are likely to perform 15% better than their counterparts. Building diversity and inclusion into a work-fromhome model isn’t just about marrying two ideas because they’re trending and should be addressed. Diversity and inclusion need to be part of the work from home model because both are the future of work and basis for business success.
Here are eight strategies and practices that can build or improve diversity and inclusion in a workfrom-home plan.
Expand The Hiring Scheme Fortunately, most WFH plans will naturally broaden any organization’s geographical reach – and eliminate a location bias. So, companies can more easily hire
Ethnically diverse companies are likely to perform 35% better than their counterparts, according to research from McKinsey. And gender-diverse companies are likely to perform 15% better than their counterparts. people with different identities related to gender, race, age, sexual orientation and ethnicity.
How? Best practices for diversity in hiring: Revamp job descriptions. Create more inclusive job descriptions
and postings. Focus on outcomes and results more, and actual job tasks less. Recognize that nearly every person will approach remote work differently so what they produce is more important than how they do it.
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