Inclusion and equity: here are the 20 best companies in Italy

Diversity, inclusion, ESG (Environmental, social, and corporate governance), sustainability in the company. It is these issues that become the criteria for drawing up the ranking of the best workplaces in Italy. Hence the ranking of the 20 Best Workplaces for Diversity, Equity & InclusionItalian companies in which all employees, regardless of personal characteristics and role, have the opportunity to develop their potential to the fullest.

The key factors for inclusive work environments are fair pay (+ 23%), meritocracy (+ 18%) and work-life balance (+ 16%). “To be able to develop the theme of corporate sustainability, also on the” people “side, it is necessary to give value to diversity, creating an inclusive and fair corporate culture” he explains Alessandro Zollomanaging director of Great Place to Work Italy.

At the top of the ranking, drawn up with the opinions of almost 95 thousand people from 113 Italian companies with at least 50 employees, there is Sidea Group Srl, followed by Bending Spoons and American Express Italia. Sidea is a leading company in information technology consulting. Bending Spoons is active in IT as a developer of applications for mobile devices. American Express Italia deals with financial services and insurance.

88% of the employees of the awarded companies say they do “Being able to be himself” in the workplace and 85% are convinced that “those responsible do not play favoritism” at work. The ranking is based on a calculation index generated by taking into account the responses of collaborators a 12 questions of the Great Place to Work questionnaire on specific aspects of the employee experienceclosely linked to the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion 2022 theme: impartiality of treatment, absence of favoritism, ability to reconcile work and private life, remuneration, the possibility of being oneself.

The main differences, compared to the national average, concern theequity of remuneration (+ 23%), la meritocracy (+ 18%) and the work-life balance (+ 16%). “Diversity, be it of gender, sexual or religious orientation, origin or age, is not in itself enough to generate value for the company: to do so, it is necessary to create an inclusive and equitable corporate culture, capable of giving all collaborators have the opportunity to express themselves in the best possible way, regardless of their personal characteristics, their role in the company and their duties »explains Zollo.

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