Diversity at Bentley Systems

Diverse employees at Bentley Systems score the company 75/100 across various culture categories, placing Bentley Systems in the top 25% of companies on Comparably with 1,001-5,000 Employees for Comparably's diversity score. The Diversity score provides insights into how diverse employees feel and rate their work experience at Bentley Systems across various culture dimensions.

Diversity and Inclusion at Bentley Systems

Diversity & Inclusion Policies

As a global company with colleagues of different cultures, backgrounds, and perspectives based in more than 40 countries worldwide, our diversity is what makes us successful. Having diversity, equity, and inclusion at work allows all colleagues to reach their highest performance and potential, and increases an overall sense of well-being. We have launched multiple programs over the years to enhance our diversity, ensure all colleagues have an equitable chance to succeed and help colleagues feel included in their teams, offices, and organizations at Bentley. These programs are ever-evolving and improving as we strive to rise to our challenges and apply colleague feedback for the betterment of all. Some of the policies we’ve launched include:

- Code of Conduct that prohibits discrimination, harassment, and retaliation and robust systems in place for reporting and investigating such behavior

- Equal Opportunity Employer Policy: Bentley is committed to offering equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, military status, veteran status, marital status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, amnesty or any status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

- Formalized process to request reasonable accommodation for colleagues with disabilities

Moved Disability Leave management (Short-term and Long-term disability, plus FMLA) to external vendor (Metlife) to protect colleague health information and ensure consistent treatment.

- Shifted “Good Friday” holiday in US to “Personal Day” to be inclusive of different religions

- Paid Parental Leave (USA)

D&I awareness training

- Annual, mandatory videos on Preventing Harassment and Discrimination & Workplace Diversity and Inclusion for US colleagues.

- Interactive sessions focused on Fostering Diversity and Inclusion and Reducing Unconscious Bias with Executives, Founders, High Potential leaders, and Talent Acquisition.

- Self-guided training content in Degreed learning platform accessible to all colleagues

Other Important D & I Elements

- Pre-hire assessments to reduce implicit bias and cast a wider net

- Recruit at Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the US

- Bentley Network of Women (NOW), a development and mentoring program for women globally at the Director level and below

- Annual global gender pay analysis

- Launch of IDEA – the Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Alliance which provides colleagues an opportunity to work with like-minded individuals around the world to influence and lead the direction for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Bentley in the future

IDEA currently has four Core Focus Groups globally - Bentley Pride Alliance, Differently Abled Colleagues at Bentley, People of Color in the US, and Women at Bentley