The average full time employee will spend just under 90,000 hours of their lives at work, that’s 3,515 days or 9.76 years and that’s not including any overtime!
There is a great deal of focus throughout our lives on choosing and preparing for a career path. But when we become part of the workforce, we realize the enormous difference that a workplace environment, colleagues and employer ethos can have on how much we enjoy our time at work.
A 2021 McKinsey survey found that employees who feel free to be themselves at work report 19% higher job satisfaction and 29% stronger feelings of belonging.
A recognized way to measure if employees feel free to be themselves at work is through self-identification.
Self-ID is incredibly valuable in the context of disability. Data for the sake of data does not serve the disability community well but data with intent has potential to drive real change by:
When an organization better understands the composition of their workforce they can:
Sally Barnett - HRBP Sodexo UK&I
Abel Ariza - Managing Director, Sodexo Singapore & Malaysia
Joanne Neddo - Global VP DEI
