Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has set a new diversity goal. The management consulting firm intends that by 2025, 5% of its workforce in Germany and Austria will be members of LGBTQ+ community (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, non-binary...), as compared with 2% currently. According to BCG, by setting out this objective the company aims to send a signal inside and outside the company, and above all to encourage diversity (a key success element) in the company.
Join the company’s LGBTQ+ network. “We believe that we will be even more successful if all of society’s groups are adequately represented in the company. This naturally includes the LGBTQ+ community,” in a statement explained BCG’s HR Director Felix Baerstecher, who is also responsible for the LGBTQ+ network in Germany and Austria. According to the HR Director, the consulting firm encourages all of its employees to address their sexual identity in the workplace in the manner that suits them...
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