Thought Leadership: Challenges in Adopting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace

Studies have consistently shown that workplaces with a focus on dei outperform their competitors.

They have better bottom lines, they innovate more effectively, enjoy higher employee #recruitment and retention rates, and even show better customer satisfaction. This is because having a diverse workplace means more skillsets, more points of view, and therefore encourages more effective strategy-making and problem-solving.

Many international companies no longer see DEI as “just” a HR concern, but a business-critical issue that is integral to strategy.

Since the benefits of DEI are already well known, why aren’t more Singapore organisations rushing to adopt DEI measures? Is it still seen to be an “imported” idea not applicable to Singapore? Or that we don’t yet have the publicly available Singapore data and toolkits to be able to successfully do this in a local-specific context?

In the article “Challenges in Adopting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace” penned by our CEO, Simran Toor, she shares with readers the whats, whys and hows of DEI adoption, and posits that a publicly and readily accessible DEI data repository may be the key to better adoption in Singapore and implemented at workplaces.

Read the full article here.