At Telefónica we’re celebrating International LGBT+ Pride Day by as soon as once more reinforcing our dedication to variety and inclusion, as a result of, in addition to being a matter of social justice, it’s also an essential stimulus for our enterprise that makes us stronger and extra aggressive. For us, variety in any of its manifestations is development and expertise, as a result of working in various groups multiplies skilled improvement and prompts innovation inside the organisation, additionally boosting our outcomes.

In this context, we goal to ensure the well-being of all of the individuals who work at Telefónica, no matter their orientation, sexual id or gender expression. Therefore, the inclusion of LGBT+ staff in our groups is a essential step in our world technique, including to the wealth of various expertise represented by the completely different genders, cultures, expertise, backgrounds, useful experiences, management kinds, and many others. that exist already within the firm.

In brief, we’ve an important dedication to variety in all of the societies through which we’re current, to which at the moment we particularly wish to “bring all our technology to remove differences”, in a state of affairs through which we’re conscious that there’s nonetheless a lot to be carried out.

Main milestones in LGBT+ variety within the final yr

• The Federación Estatal de Lesbianas, Gais, Trans, Bisexuales, Intersexuales y más (FELGTB+) has lately thought of Telefónica to be one of many corporations most dedicated to the collective. According to the organisation, we lead, together with Google and NYX, the dedication to equality and inclusion of LGBT+ folks in Spain.
• We proceed to strengthen our native affinity teams within the international locations through which we function, highlighting the launch and development in Latin America of our ‘Sostener’ community, which since its creation has promoted not less than one awareness-raising motion monthly within the area.
• We stay dedicated to the combination of transgender folks into the labour market. In Spain, along with taking part in FELGTB’s SureWeTrans venture, we’re organising employability workshops for trans folks and we’ve launched a information on gender transition at work to information each the transitioning worker and their supervisor all through the method.
• In Brazil, we have already got greater than 70 trans staff and anticipate to succeed in 100 by 2023.  In addition, we fund 100% of the coaching of our trans staff.
• In the UK, we’ve educated HR groups on the inclusion of trans and non-binary expertise. In addition, our staff can now select the right way to categorical their most popular pronoun on firm ID badges.
• We have an essential community of agreements and collaborations that assist us to design and make our progress seen. At the native stage, we’ve alliances with entities equivalent to FELGTB or REDI in Spain, Stonewall within the UK, or the Fórum de Empresas e Direitos LGBT+ and Transempregos in Brazil.
• On the event of LGBT+ Pride month, we strengthened our agenda of coaching and visibility actions within the completely different international locations the place we’re current via programs, workshops, worker conferences and participation in the primary Pride marches.

And we proceed to advance on this journey to advertise LGBT+ equality in society, the primary steps of which we started in 2018 primarily based on two key tasks: adherence to the United Nations Standards of Business Conduct; and participation within the ADIM Project “Advancing LGBT+ Diversity Management” to boost consciousness of sexual variety amongst social brokers, enterprise leaders and the college inhabitants with the goal of advancing extra inclusive company insurance policies.

But none of this might have been doable and not using a consolidated construction of inside our bodies and figures that monitor progress on equality, variety and inclusion inside the firm. In this regard, we’ve, amongst others, a Global Diversity Council and a Transparency Committee.

In brief, all these milestones and initiatives present that at Telefónica we place folks and values on the centre to drive our future and transformation, to develop as an organization and likewise as a society, to which we provide all our know-how to finish variations.

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