Diversity and inclusion – employers' perspective

Industry: IT Services and Consulting

We are committed to accelerating equality for all and to creating a work environment where each of our people feels like they belong.

We have an unwavering commitment to diversity. Each of our people should have a full sense of belonging within our organisation. As a business imperative, every person at Accenture has the responsibility to create and sustain an inclusive environment for all.

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Industry: engineering

At Airbus, we believe there is power in being different. Every day, our people express their unique voices and draw from their rich experiences to bring fresh ideas to our company. This is why we are committed to fostering inclusion and diversity in the workplace - one that welcomes every one of us.

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Industry: engineering

We’re devoted to growing the diversity of our people, promoting an inclusive culture, providing everyone with an equal voice because simply put, it’s the right thing to do.

Find out more: Atkins - equality, diversity and inclusion

Industry: IT and Technology

At Atos, we recognise how important our people are and we acknowledge and support what is important to them. We are Atos focuses on the full life cycle of our employee experience through five key areas – Diversity & Inclusion, Social Value, Wellbeing, Life@Work and Customer Experience.

Find out more: Atos Diversity and Inclusion

Industry: engineering

The more we are able to fully embrace people from all backgrounds, the more sustainable we will be as a business and the more successful we will be in the long term. Our focus on inclusion helps us find and nurture the best people, engage with them and develop their skills.

Focusing on an inclusive workplace is at the heart of creating the right conditions for us to improve and enrich our business, help us to meet our ambitious business plans and most importantly allow the people within our organisation to thrive.  

Find out more: diversity and inclusion at BAE Systems

Industry: investment banking

At Barclays, we believe our success depends on having a diverse and inclusive environment where people from all backgrounds feel confident in bringing their whole selves to work.

For us, diversity is much more than a buzzword. The more we increase diversity and support each other, the more directly we can enrich our customers and the ways we do business. It strengthens our values, culture and brand.

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Industry: Accountancy and Financial Management

Our commitments to diversity and inclusion are led from the top, through a steering committee made up of members of BDO’s leadership team and other highly influential partners and employees. Our people also run a number of networking groups which encourage and celebrate diversity including BLEND (our LGBTQ+ network), BDO Inspire (our women’s network), the Islamic Network and the Jewish Network.

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Industry: public service

The Civil Service Fast Stream (CSFS) aims to recruit individuals from a range of different backgrounds and provide every candidate with equal opportunities. To do this, CSFS offers the Early Diversity Internship Programme (EDIP) and Summer Diversity Internship Programme (SDIP) to provide an opportunity to students from diverse backgrounds to see what a career would be like in the Civil Service and on the Fast Stream:

• The Early Diversity Internship Programme is a one-week, paid internship in a Government department available to first year undergraduates, which gives you great early insight into working for the Civil Service, shadowing current Fast Streamers at work.
• The Summer Diversity Internship is a 6-9 week paid internship in a Government department for those in their final two years of university (including those in postgraduate studies immediately following their degree), giving you the opportunity to undertake challenging, project related work, developing the skills needed for a Fast Streamer. Upon successful completion of the scheme, you can access the ‘Fast Pass’, which allows you to skip the initial stages of the Fast Stream application and go straight to the final stages. You can also access a coaching scheme designed to increase your chances of successfully passing the FS selection process.

Read more about the CSFS, EDIP, SDIP through the Fast Stream website and Ambassador blogs. To pre-register for the 2022 Fast Stream, SDIP, EDIP campaign please send an email to fs.preregister@cabinetoffice.gov.uk.

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Industry: professional services

At Deloitte, we want everyone to feel they can be themselves and thrive at work - in every country, in everything we do, every day. We are focused on providing a culture characterized by inclusive everyday behaviours built on a foundation of respect and appreciation for diversity in all its forms.

Find out more: inclusion at Deloitte

Industry: car hire

You bring something different to the table than anyone else.

We recognise that no two people share the same combination of background, culture, abilities, and values - and it's wonderful. We want you to come to work each day and add value in the way that only you can. Here, we put a high value on diversity and strive to create an inclusive environment where everyone can be their best.

Find out more: Enterprise diversity and inclusion

Industry: accountancy and financial management

Diversity and inclusiveness are not 'nice to haves'. They are business imperatives. Diverse perspectives, combined with an inclusive culture, drive better decision-making, stimulate innovation, increase organizational agility and strengthen resilience to disruption. 

Find out more: diversity and inclusiveness – our latest thinking

Explore career opportunities at EY

Industry: IT and technology

From attraction through to development and progression, we celebrate difference because we want everyone to have equal opportunity to belong and grow in their career. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer: it enables us to attract, recruit, train and deploy incredible people. Our areas of focus include gender, ethnicity, social mobility, different abilities and neurodiversity, LGBTQ+ and parent and caring responsibilities as well as the ways in which these all intersect.

Find out more: FDM Group diversity and inclusion

Industry: Property, Chartered Surveyors

Fisher German is committed to providing equality of opportunity and promoting a culture that values diversity.  Our aim is to create a working environment where everyone feels respected and able to give their best in line with our core vision and values.

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Industry: public service, charity and social work

Frontline is a social work charity working to ensure that all children in England have a safe and stable home, and that their life chances are not limited by their social or family circumstance.

We believe that diversity makes for a stronger team. Our employees come from a range of backgrounds with varied expertise. We are actively seeking to bring people with different lived experiences into the organisation, to create a workplace that is welcoming for all and diverse in age, disability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, race, religious belief, sexual orientation, social background and any other forms of identity.

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Industry: IT and Technology

In a globalized, hyper-connected and multi-cultural society, diversity and inclusion are key drivers of employee engagement and productivity, talent acquisition, innovation and growth. We want to create an environment where diversity and inclusion becomes self-evident in all levels across the organization, in all business activity, and in the way we collaborate with each other, customers and partners.

Find out more: Diversity and Inclusion : Fujitsu UK

Industry: investment banking

At the crux of our efforts is a focus on cultivating and sustaining a diverse work environment and workforce, which is critical to meeting the unique needs of our diverse client base and the communities in which we operate.

We are committed to making progress toward racial equity, advancing gender equality, and increasing representation at every level of our firm.

Find out more: Goldman Sachs diversity and inclusion

Industry: management consulting

Building an inclusive culture, where we value difference and respect our colleagues, is the right thing to do and helps our people to perform at their best.

Diversity of thought, background and experience enables better decision-making, improves the quality of our delivery and helps us to meet the needs of our clients.

Explore now: Grant Thornton inclusion and diversity

Industry: science and research

As a company which improves the lives of hundreds of millions of people globally with our medicines, vaccines and consumer products, we take pride in providing access to all – but we have an opportunity and obligation to do more to improve inclusion and diversity: for our people inside GSK; in the way we do business; and in the communities where we operate. 

Find out more: inclusion and diversity at GSK

Industry: IT and Technology

Be Equal champions diversity and inclusion for everyone. Join us as we drive systemic, sustainable improvement for people in every community.

Find out more: IBM Inclusion and Diversity

Industry: IT and technology

Diversity and inclusion are key to innovation.

At Intel, we are committed to advancing diversity and inclusion at every level in our company and the broader industry. It is foundational to our business and purpose – to create world-changing technology that enriches the lives of every person on earth.

Find out more: Intel Global diversity and inclusion

Industry: Professional Services

Where you were born, your socio-economic background, your ethnicity, your sexuality, your gender: none of these things should affect whether you fulfil your potential.

We believe that building an inclusive environment simply makes sense. Our clients know that diverse teams do better thinking. And we know that you’ll be at your best when you feel you belong.

Find out more: KPMG inclusion, diversity and social equality

Industry: retail, buying and merchandising

As a growing business, we are under no illusion that the hard work and dedication of our 22,000 colleagues across Great Britain has got us to where we are today, enabling us to positively impact the lives of all of our customers.

We take great pride in being a fair and responsible employer and are committed to ensuring every member of our workforce has the same opportunities to progress.

Find out more: Lidl UK’s commitment

Industry: Consumer Goods and FMCG

At Mondelēz International we are committed to creating and sustaining a workplace where di­fferences are valued and where everyone can be themselves. We’re all unique in ways you can and can’t see, and we aim to attract, develop and nurture talent wherever it exists.

Find out more: Diversity and Inclusion

Industry: investment banking

“At Morgan Stanley, diversity is an opportunity — for clients, employees and the Firm. By valuing diverse perspectives, we can better serve our clients while we help employees achieve their professional objectives. A corporate culture in which everyone feels they belong is fundamental to our role as a global leader constantly striving for excellence in all that we do." James P. Gorman, Chairman and CEO, Morgan Stanley

Find out more: Morgan Stanley diversity and inclusion

Industry: science and research

Our goal is to continuously improve and sustain an inclusive culture in which diversity provides deeper customer insights and creates a competitive advantage in the markets we serve. By attracting, developing and engaging the best team of diverse and empowered associates, we help realize life’s potential for ourselves, our customers and our shareholders.

Explore now: Danaher diversity and inclusion

Industry: public service, charity and social work

Police Now’s mission is to transform communities by recruiting, developing and inspiring diverse leaders in policing.

We recruit graduates who go on to play a crucial role in creating safer communities across England and Wales, working proactively to tackle some of society’s most complex challenges so that even the most vulnerable can thrive.

Equipping participants with core policing skills, our two-year national graduate programmes help develop leadership, communication and problem-solving skills that will serve graduates, and the wider community, for a lifetime.

National Graduate Leadership Programme
Our National Graduate Leadership Programme trains and develops graduates to become leaders in neighbourhood policing. Participants are placed in some of the most challenging communities in England and Wales, getting to know the issues up close and developing innovative ideas and techniques to tackle the challenges residents are facing.

National Detective Programme
Our National Detective Programme is designed to equip graduates with the core policing skills required in modern investigative work. Throughout the two-year programme participants play an important part in solving crimes while developing leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.

Find out more about Police Now National Graduate Programmes

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Industry: Professional Services

Our Women in Business and Black Talent in Business programmes are now open for first years and penultimate years and will be 3 day paid placements. Apply now using the links below:

Women in Business

Black Talent in Business

View all upcoming events on the PwC website.

At PwC, we’re all different.

We know that when people from diverse backgrounds and with different points of view work together, we create the most value – for our clients, our people and our society. To solve important problems we need to be inclusive of our diverse talent and empower our people to use their creativity, authenticity and human differences to be the champions of change.

Read more about the inclusion at PwC.

Industry: Science and Research

The inclusive approach at RSSL naturally extends to gender diversity; effective policies are in place to address key barriers and make working possible for all its staff. A move that is all the more impressive given that the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Breaking Barriers report recently found that 74% of respondents working in the chemical industry have seen evidence of a lack of progression and retention for women outside academia.

Find out more: Strength through diversity

Industry: property

Savills is committed to eliminating discrimination and encouraging diversity amongst our workforce. Our aim is that our teams will be truly representative of all sections of society and each employee feels respected and able to give their best. We attract, recruit and retain the best people in property. Right across the world, and in areas of property as diverse as real estate management and venture capital funding.

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We are committed to make sure each and every one of our employees is suitably supported at work. Find out more about Savills and their focus on wellbeing.

Industry: investment banking

A diverse workforce and inclusive culture are crucial to our long-term success. That's because, in our experience, teams with diversity in gender, race, age, ethnicity, education, background, sexual orientation, gender identity, etc. better understand and relate to our equally diverse clients’ needs. Likewise, diversity of thought, opinion and experience helps us make better decisions and be more innovative, while an inclusive work environment attracts high-quality people and makes the firm a better place to work for everyone.

This term UBS are launching UBS Tomorrow’s Talent, which is an early engagement diversity program focused on undergraduate students in their first or second year. More information will follow shortly.

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