In today’s business landscape, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives have evolved from aspirational goals to strategic imperatives. While many organizations tout their commitment to DEI, understanding the concrete approaches and measurable impacts of these efforts provides valuable insights for the broader business community. We asked business leaders to share their companies’ specific approaches to … Read full-story
How do you support your employees with disabilities? At GE Vernova, we are committed to ensuring our team members who are living or caring for someone with a disability have the support and resources they need to connect and thrive. Our CEO Scott Strazik proudly signed the Disability:IN CEO Letter on Disability Inclusion and partnered … Read full-story
How is your company celebrating Pride Month 2024, especially from an employee-inclusion perspective? GE Vernova celebrates Pride Month in June to acknowledge the history, dignity, and impact of LGBTQIA+ people, while also promoting visibility and self-affirmation, in partnership with the Pride Alliance. The Pride Alliance is an employee resource group (ERG) that supports employees who … Read full-story
What does your company do, especially vs. competitors, to promote gender equity? Our philanthropic efforts focus on advancing gender equality by supporting women and underrepresented populations in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. GE is honored to be a founding partner of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Corporate Partnership Council for 20 years, … Read full-story
Tell us how your company is using AI internally or externally? It feels like this question was tailor-made for RingCentral! We pride ourselves on being THE AI-first business communications company. Here are a few examples of how we are integrating AI into many aspects of our organization. Internally we use our own products for video … Read full-story
Why should employees just beginning their careers consider working for your company? Employees beginning their careers should consider working for Builders FirstSource because it offers a dynamic environment within the construction industry, providing valuable opportunities for learning, growth, and hands-on experience. The company’s commitment to innovation, professional development, and a collaborative work culture makes it … Read full-story
Can you tell us about some of the programs your company has in place to push back against climate change? At RingCentral we are committed to doing our part to combat climate change and protect our global environment. Our ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) programs are all tracked in our annual Impact Report. Here are … Read full-story
Can you tell us about some of your unique ERG programs? At Catalent, we encourage our ERGs to partner with Talent Acquisition and Talent Development teams, at both site and global levels, to play a direct role in diversifying our workforce and encouraging personal and professional development opportunities among our employees. This can be in … Read full-story
What does your company do, especially versus competitors, to promote gender equity? The GE Women’s Network (GEWN) is an employee resource group that was formed to support women working in GE. Championed by leaders at the highest level alongside strong support from its volunteers, GEWN today works to empower, energize and elevate the women at … Read full-story
As the ground we walk on in the world of working continues hurtling through paradigm shifts en route to wherever it’s going, and despite our attempts to rename it or spin it out of existence, here’s to a group of companies that understand how mentorship passes on the essential human knowledge that hardwires the future … Read full-story
With the paradigm shift to remote work as a kind of new normal, working-from-elsewhere has increasingly become a desired feature of any job, it’s worth taking a look at some of the ways that this massive transformation has affected things associated with work – like internships. The necessary shift to virtual internships for many companies … Read full-story
With Juneteenth – now a federal holiday – falling on Sunday, June 19th (the official day) and Monday, June 20th (for observance,) Comparably wanted to check in with clients for a roll call of companies truly dedicated to helping make right what has long been made wrong in this country for Black employees and communities. … Read full-story
With the move to remote for many workers, health coverage has remained the most valuable benefit one can get from a company beyond monetary compensation. But there are a wide spread of benefit packages out there, some slimmer than they seem, other bursting with compassionate offerings. Here is how 6 companies do it well. Can … Read full-story
How will your company recognize women for this year’s International Women’s Day? We’ll be spotlighting the women of RingCentral and highlighting charitable causes close to our hearts through special events, panels, blogs, social media outreach, and a landing page. We’ll be releasing content throughout Women’s History Month around the theme of breaking the bias on … Read full-story
Professional development is a secondary necessity for most workers. The idea that one might start on a lower rung and eventually climb via merit to a management role is part of the engine of retention at many companies. Here are 11 companies that put particular effort into their management development programs. Can you tell us … Read full-story
As with almost everything else surrounding life in business, internships have also had to evolve or at least temporarily transform into sometimes virtual internships. Those looking ahead to 2022 internships can start here with these companies, which have all responded thoughtfully when we asked about what their internship programs offered and how they may have … Read full-story
Here's how these smart companies have dealt with offering the right benefits to their remote workers. … Read full-story
Just keeping a remote workforce on target with a company’s mission is hard enough, so we were curious how the most forward-thinking companies were dealing with the issue of sowing culture among the staff in a situation where more and more employees have never met each other in person and are having to split their … Read full-story
Like almost everything else surrounding life in business, internships have also had to evolve or at least temporarily transform into sometimes virtual internships. Those looking ahead to 2022 internships can start here with these 7 companies, which have all responded thoughtfully when we asked about what their internship programs offered and how they may have … Read full-story
The growing pains go on as the post-pandemic landscape continues to settle and firm up at its own pace, never quite jelling into that New Normal that we all keep expecting to be signing up for soon. The reasons for this stop-and-start process are only human: we’ve never been here before, in this spot, with so … Read full-story
Professional development is at the very least a secondary concern for just about anyone who holds down a job anywhere. Especially early in our careers, very few of us are happy with the idea of staying in one role forever without notching up eventually in title, pay, and influence. And even those of us who … Read full-story
“Life is better live,” says a representative from one of today’s featured companies. That will certainly ring true for workers across the nation who are now – since the COVID shakeup – working from home, often at their own pace, and closer to their loved ones. But what about those people and culture leaders at … Read full-story
Mothers are central to all our lives. For almost everyone, a mother is our soft spot, our memory of mercy and comfort from our earliest years. Our mothers are our friends, our heroes, our confidantes, our trusted navigators, our role models, our earliest examples of someone who is on our side for it all. And … Read full-story
Even without the current, continuing pandemic crisis, remote work was bound to become far more normalized over the coming years. There are simply too many factors – economic, geographic, and otherwise – working in favor of a virtual workspace for it not to catch on. Now, whether we were ready or not, many of … Read full-story
RingCentral, the Silicon Valley-based global provider of unified cloud-based communications and collaboration solutions. has earned a Comparably diversity score that ranks among the top 5% of U.S. companies of its size. The company’s workforce is, in fact, diverse in a number of respects, and we spoke to several RingCentral employees about how diversity has become … Read full-story
Employer brand is an area where every modern company needs to shine. This means that those companies need someone keeping the employer brand humming, someone who knows how to broker the happiest and most mutually beneficial outcomes between the companies they work for and the employees they depend on. In that spirit, here are 37 … Read full-story
Summer internship season is almost upon us, and companies all across the US are currently accepting applications from college students and the like who are are eager to start their careers in the industries that hold the most fascination for them. Here are 20 exciting companies in the Silicon Valley area that are accepting applications … Read full-story
Most tech companies are organized around developing new products for the evolving needs of our 21st century world. It goes without saying, then, that product roles are among the important and most prized positions at tech companies large and small across the nation. Product talent keeps tabs on intended audiences, helps manage a cross-functional development team, … Read full-story
The wizards in engineering departments across the U.S. tech industry use math and science to design and maintain systems aimed at addressing specific problems. There’s always a need in tech for strong, smart, fresh engineering talent – especially in microelectronics, avionics, robotics, and cybersecurity. Paychecks can be very healthy for top talent. These six companies in … Read full-story
