Diverse teams innovate more and boost ROI, but inclusion means going deeper than hiring. Remote work makes it harder for women juggling childcare to feel they belong, so companies need to build belonging into culture itself.
And I think it's a good time for a lot of companies to rethink as well their company culture and make diversity and inclusion part of the core of the strategy. I think there is a business case for diversity and inclusion, and it's proven over and over. So why not using this time to change things around and to really Test. I mean, we have seen what happens when there is no diversity. So why not give it a chance, right? It's proven that it works. It's proven that it boosts innovation. It's proven that it boosts motivation, ROI. What else do we need to prove, or we need research to prove for companies to understand that this is good for them? They are not making any favor to anyone. It is good for business. It adds— it makes business better. It makes health and mental health better as well, because people feel safer and included. And it's always the same thing about diversity. It's not only diversity, it's also inclusion. If you have a policy of hiring people and you're showing more diversity, but you don't make them feel part of it, And now I think it's so much more important for companies to make their employees or their teams, whatever they are, freelancers or full-timers or contractors, to make them feel part because it's so lonely to be at home away from your team. And some, lot of women especially are alone with a lot of, with the kids or with a lot of tasks extra apart from the work. They do. So I think it's really important time to rethink our strategy and think that we need to include diversity and inclusion as core part of our business practice.
