Responsibility to the workforce
With an employee base of more than 27,500 in the UK and US and a service territory that covers various communities on both sides of the Atlantic, inclusion and diversity is not simply a ‘nice to have’, it is the right thing to do as a business.
Recently, we clarified our inclusion and diversity business case and launched our global inclusion charter. This charter will build on past successes and redefine expectations. Our strong commitment to inclusion and diversity within the Company has not gone unnoticed externally.
For the third consecutive year, we were the only energy utility listed in the Times/Aurora Where Women Want to Work TOP 50. We also had a first time listing among Business Week’s Best Places to Intern list in the US, and we were the only energy utility in the Stonewall Top 100 list of lesbian, gay and bisexual friendly companies in the UK.
We are also pleased that internal measures of our achievements are showing improvement with the percentage of ethnic minorities within the Company increasing to 13.2%, a rise of 0.9%.