From 2017, the UK government will publish an index ranking companies in terms of their ability to employ talent from all backgrounds. Inclusion in this landmark index system will be entirely voluntary and is an attempt to motivate big business to go even further in a country known for its thick glass ceiling.
A joint initiative by the Social Mobility Foundation and the Social Mobility Commission (a Government agency), the Social Mobility Employer Index “aims to encourage firms to compete to remove hurdles to find the best and brightest candidates – whatever their background – and to reveal which sectors and companies are taking the issue of social mobility most seriously,” the government explained, and which will “target ‘elite’ sectors which, traditionally, have low rates of social mobility – such
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