EDI has a positive impact on business: CII

Improving representation has the most impact

Cameron Roberts
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The Chartered Insurance Institute’s (CII) 2023 Corporate Chartered Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) survey has data which highlights the business case for EDI.

The aspects with the most increased impact on businesses, those that scored ‘to a moderate extent' or ‘to a great extent' on impact on business outcomes, were: creating a more representative workforce (40%), reducing salary discrepancies (43%) and more representative senior leadership team (31%). This research is paired with the CII's Young Foundation EDI report, which found that nearly 75% of professionals had experienced ‘discriminatory or exclusionary' workplace behaviour. The most widely adopted practices were: family and carer friendly policies (87%), leaders role modelling an in...

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