News - Workplace Pride

LGBTIQ+ Employee Resource Groups: Benefits, Challenges, and Opportunities a Symposium at Leiden University

While organizational attention to the topics of workplace equality and inclusion has increased, some social groups are still disadvantaged. To support LGBTIQ+ employees at work, many organizations have LGBTIQ+ employee resource groups (ERGs). These groups are uniquely placed to provide a safe space for LGBTIQ+ employees, facilitate alliances between these…

Workplace Pride releases the Civil Society Business Toolkit

Workplace Pride, Open for Business and The Other Foundation have co-created the Civil Society Business Toolkit. The three organisations developed the Civil Society Business Toolkit to provide CSOs with a guide on how to interact with businesses more effectively and productively. It focuses specifically on empowering LGBTIQ+ CSOs,…

Dubai: A Vision for Diversity & Workplace Inclusion

‘Historic’, ‘milestone event’ and ‘groundbreaking for the region’ were some of the terms used to describe the “DUBAI: A Vision for Diversity and Workplace Inclusion” conference which took place on Thursday, March 31st. This well-attended event was organised by Workplace Pride Foundation and hosted by Baker McKenzie. Participants were primarily…

22 March 2022 We held our first Member Exchange Session on March 15 on the topic of Creating a Transgender Policy, and we would like all our members to have access to what we learned from this session, here are the most important metrics, takeaways, and the link to…

LGBT+ International Corporate Advocacy Guide: a key to safe workplaces

8 February 2022 PRESS RELEASE LGBT+ International Corporate Advocacy Guide: a key to safe workplaces Workplace Pride’s comprehensive new white paper challenges internationally-active businesses to have a greater impact in non-LGBT+ friendly locations where they operate. …

Workplace Pride Launches its 2022 version of the Global Benchmark Survey

24 January 2022 We are pleased to announce that the 8th edition of our Global Benchmark Survey is officially open for registrations from February 1st until April 22nd. Are you looking for a way to measure, manage and report on your LGBTIQ+ policies and practices? Created in 2014,…

Happy New Year from Workplace Pride

12 January 2022 Dear Workplace Pride members and friends, First of all, let me wish you all a great start to the new year. 2021 was a huge challenge for most of us with uncertainty surrounding the pandemic impacting every element of our lives and work. Despite this, Workplace Pride was…

Workplace Pride 2021 Highlights

16 December 2021 Workplace Pride began 2021 by expanding our LGBTI acronym to LGBTIQ+ to embolden inclusion. To explore this and especially dig deeper around the “Q+” part, Workplace Pride held a webinar with Ali Buck of the Young@Workplace Pride program, Fred Benedosso from ASML, and Joel Bedos of IDAHOT and…

DIFFER(ent) Kinds of Energy Re-cap (including NWO’s signing of the Declaration of Amsterdam)

22 November 2021 Every year, the Tech@WorkplacePride programme organises an event from a different city in the Netherlands. This year’s Tech@Workplace Pride online (formerly hybrid) event was streamed from Brainport Eindhoven, on the campus of the Eindhoven University of Technology on the 18th of November. The guiding theme of this…

KLM signs Workplace Pride’s Declaration of Amsterdam

15 November 2021 Press release courtesy of KLM KLM signed Workplace Pride’s Declaration of Amsterdam on Friday, 12 November. With the signing of this document, KLM commits to developing a working environment where openness and equality are fundamental and where there is an explicit awareness of diversity, inclusion and the…