'19% of UK IT professionals are female, and 8.5% of senior leaders in the tech sector are from a BAME background. Yet more female graduates are coming out of universities than men, and 14% of the total working-age population comes from a BAME background.'
A lack of diversity and inclusion has been a significant issue for many industries. However, tech enterprises are showing the way. As companies struggle to locate the skilled staff they need, ensuring they have high levels of diversity and inclusion in their recruitment process is a legal necessity and a commercial imperative.
Diversity and inclusion have been moving up the agendas of tech companies. However, this can often simply be lip service to appease critics of the inequalities that are still present across the sector. The current report from CNBC, which considered annual workforce disclosures, shows diversity is still the exception and not the rule across many of the world’s top tech companies.
The talent gap Creating a multifaceted workforce is clearly a critical component of every digital transformation roadmap. Indeed, according to TEKsystems that defines leaders and laggards with their digital transformation strategies with 70% of digital leaders have mature diversity, equity and inclusion practices in place compared to 44% of digital laggards, with 79% of digital leaders effectively develop a diverse and inclusive leadership pipeline .
“This year we have created diverse working groups set up and led by volunteers within the business focused on Black Lives Matters, LGBTQ+, female equality, disability and sustainability. They are championing change within the organisation and educating from within the business supported by aligned c-suite sponsors.”
“With the help of Bain & Co we produced two major parts for the pilot. One is around data from the HR systems and the other is around employee sentiment. Mapping this data will help us to understand if an organisation has an inclusive culture and what steps they can take to make one. The pilot is happening as we speak. We have a handful of companies going through that now to allow us to tweak before a wider rollout and will announce the results later this year.
“Tech is a part of everyone’s daily life, and this offers a huge opportunity for the right individual, the industry is thriving and growing and should be a very desirable place to work. As such diversifying talent at all levels in the sector is incredibly important, and it is fantastic we are seeing more of this now.”“It is crucial companies understand the value of a diverse and inclusive workforce, as a diverse business outperforms one that isn’t.
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