Inclusion update for the Built Environment industry
Newsletter 20: Beat the legislation, flex is here
Constructing Rainbows advises built environment organisations who have an aim of making our industry inclusive for all. To find out more visit www.constructingrainbows.co.uk This newsletter will provide you with some updates on what others are doing, both within the built environment and in other industries.
Construction needs a culture where people feel free to talk about disability, says Sir James Wates. And Team GB’s Paralympians can provide inspiration.
Demand for flexible working has grown in the wake of the pandemic, but does flexibility fit with construction, and can it ease the sector’s gender balance and skills issues?
“Actions speak louder than words, so where are the actions?” This was just one of an encyclopaedia of responses to EG’s second annual Race Diversity in Real Estate survey that questioned what the sector was really doing to combat discrimination. Lip service was a phrase used over and over in the survey’s responses.
Pay is a major factor in whether a candidate takes a job – or even applies in the first place. But for employers, the politics of making salaries public are complicated.
Intractable as it seems, the problem ofracism in the workplace can be effectively addressed with the right information, incentives, and investment. Corporate leaders may not be able to change the world, but they can certainly change their world.