December 8, 2023 – Lenovo has been included within the Human Rights Marketing campaign Basis’s 2023-2024 Company Equality Index (CEI) for the sixth 12 months in a row, receiving a rating of 90 out of 100. The Index is the foremost benchmarking survey and report measuring company insurance policies and practices associated to LGBTQ+ office equality for US-based firms for his or her workers within the US and overseas.
The CEI charges firms on detailed standards falling below 4 central pillars:
- Non-discrimination insurance policies throughout enterprise entities;
- Equitable advantages for LGBTQ+ staff and their households;
- Supporting an inclusive tradition; and,
- Company social accountability.
“Lenovo is happy with being a part of the 2023-2024 Company Equality Index once more this 12 months, it demonstrates the corporate’s dedication to construct a wiser office for its LGBTQ+ workers” stated Calvin Crosslin, Chief Variety Officer, Lenovo. “Whereas we’re happy with the continued progress we’re making, we additionally acknowledge there’s nonetheless work to do to construct on our polices and practices and guarantee equality for all our workers.”
Amongst actions carried out previously 12 months, Lenovo launched its first-ever self-identification marketing campaign permitting workers to voluntarily self-identify their gender identification, race and ethnicity, and self-disclose seen and invisible disabilities in inside techniques. Beginning within the US with plans to roll out in different markets, the self-identification operate will assist Lenovo higher perceive the range of its workforce throughout totally different segments, together with gender identification. Lenovo can be launching a information to advantages within the US, particularly as they relate to LGBTQIA+ populations.
Lenovo’s placement on the CEI comes alongside current information that Lenovo has achieved its highest-ever rating on the Office Pleasure benchmark, reflecting its dedication to inclusion of the LGBTQIA+ neighborhood past the US.
Lenovo is targeted on rising numerous views in its government ranks, as demonstrated by the objective to extend executives from underrepresented backgrounds – together with LGBTQ – to 35% by FY2025/26 (from 29% in 2020).
The outcomes of the 2023-2024 CEI showcase how US-based firms are selling LGBTQ+ pleasant office insurance policies within the U.S. and overseas. The primary 12 months of the CEI included 319 contributors, and the 2023-2024 CEI now consists of 1,384 contributors; additional demonstrating the large trajectory of the CEI, a record-breaking 1,340 companies have non-discrimination protections particular to gender identification, up from simply 17 in 2002. These essential non-discrimination protections cowl 21 million workers within the U.S. and across the globe.
The CEI charges employers offering these essential protections to over 20 million U.S. staff and a further 18 million outdoors of the US. Firms rated within the CEI embrace Fortune journal’s 500 largest publicly traded companies, American Lawyer journal’s high 200 revenue-grossing regulation corporations (AmLaw 200), and a whole lot of publicly and privately held mid- to large-sized companies.
The complete CEI report is out there on-line at www.hrc.org/cei. You may learn extra about Lenovo’s variety and inclusion efforts within the Firm’s most up-to-date Environmental, Social and Governance Report.
About Lenovo
Lenovo is a US$62 billion income international expertise powerhouse, ranked #217 within the Fortune International 500, using 77,000 folks world wide, and serving hundreds of thousands of shoppers every single day in 180 markets. Targeted on a daring imaginative and prescient to ship Smarter Know-how for All, Lenovo has constructed on its success because the world’s largest PC firm by additional increasing into progress areas that gasoline the development of ‘New IT’ applied sciences (shopper, edge, cloud, community, and intelligence) together with server, storage, cellular, software program, options, and companies. This transformation along with Lenovo’s world-changing innovation is constructing a extra inclusive, reliable, and smarter future for everybody, all over the place. Lenovo is listed on the Hong Kong inventory change below Lenovo Group Restricted (HKSE: 992)(ADR: LNVGY). To search out out extra go to https://www.lenovo.com, and skim in regards to the newest information through our StoryHub
About Human Rights Marketing campaign Basis
The Human Rights Marketing campaign Basis is the academic arm of the Human Rights Marketing campaign (HRC), America’s largest civil rights group working to attain equality for lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) folks. By its packages, the HRC Basis seeks to make transformational change within the on a regular basis lives of LGBTQ+ folks, shedding gentle on inequity and deepening the general public’s understanding of LGBTQ+ points, with a transparent deal with advancing transgender and racial justice. Its work has reworked the panorama for greater than 15 million staff, 11 million college students, 1 million shoppers within the adoption and foster care system and a lot extra. The HRC Basis offers direct session and technical help to establishments and communities, driving the development of inclusive insurance policies and practices; it builds the capability of future leaders and allies via fellowship and coaching packages; and, with the agency perception that we’re stronger working collectively, it forges partnerships with advocates within the U.S. and across the globe to extend our affect and form the way forward for our work.
