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According to a recent McKinsey and Company report on Why Diversity Matters, companies that achieve gender diversity on their executive teams are 21% more profitable than those that don’t. The same report found that companies who are ethnically and culturally diverse also outperform their counterparts by 35%. The evidence is clear: diverse teams produce better results. So let’s change the conversation about diversity in our organisations so it’s not seen as a gap to close, but as a key condition of business success. Angus McCarey, CEO, Hive Learning discusses further.

Deloitte recently discovered that only 14% of the people they surveyed are highly confident that their organisations are ready to fully harness the changes associated with Industry 4.0. This statistic is highly worrying, explains Jonathan Sharp, Director at Britannic Technologies.

Diversity within companies is best managed at the recruitment stage. However, there’s a history of unconscious bias that plagues the hiring industry says Juliet Eccleston, Co-Founder of AnyGood? Read below about how unconscious bias is disjointing recruitment.

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Emily Sexton-Brown,
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