“The more diverse we are, the stronger we become” – Accenture
In today’s corporate world, particularly in industries like technology, phrases like “diversity and inclusion” can sometimes feel like empty buzzwords, thrown around without genuine commitment. However, this is not the case for many companies, including the global leader Accenture. For them, diversity and inclusion are not just trendy slogans.
Let’s start by talking about what makes Accenture different. Well, they think diversity is essential for making progress and coming up with new ideas.
Many big tech companies, including Meta and Apple, just talk about diversity without really meaning it. In fact, Technology is the least diverse industry globally. But Accenture, despite being a tech company, believes that real innovation happens when people with different perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences come together. To Accenture, diversity is not a burden.
A big part of how they do this is through programs that help their employees reach their full potential. They do things like training to help people recognize and overcome their unconscious biases, offering different learning opportunities customized to each person, and most importantly, letting people work in ways that suit them best.
One really important thing they do is make sure that everyone gets paid fairly, no matter their gender or race. They check this every year, and they’ve made sure that women are paid the same as men in every country they work in. They’ve also made sure that people from different racial and ethnic backgrounds are paid equally in certain places.
But they don’t just stop there. They also help people with disabilities, those in the LGBTIQ+ community, and people from racial or ethnic groups who don’t often get as much support. They make sure their workplaces are easy to access for everyone and they want people to feel comfortable being themselves, no matter their sexual orientation or gender identity.
Accenture knows that having people from different cultures is really important in today’s world. So, they use the different backgrounds of their workers to help clients all around the world. They respect everyone’s culture and make sure everyone feels included, no matter where they’re from.
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You know, today, it is very easy to call yourself anti-racist, yet make fun of obese people or people of different gender identities or nationalities. But Accenture has ingrained diversity and inclusivity into its very core of organizational culture. So, they are going beyond mere ethnic diversity.
Founded in 1989 as Andersen Consulting and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, Accenture operates globally, with subsidiaries in the United States, Norway, United Kingdom, Switzerland, and more.
And the company has done really well financially, too – it’s not that they are “paying the price” for diversity and inclusion. Accenture’s annual revenue according to the latest February 29, 2024 report amounted to $64.57 billion.
With a workforce of approximately 739,000 employees as of March 2024, Accenture is a member of prominent organizations such as the Linux Foundation, JS Foundation, German-Swiss Chamber of Commerce, and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Wehrtechnik.
As a result of all aforementioned efforts, Accenture is seen as the best when it comes to including everyone, no matter who they are.
