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2021 Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Update
When we launched our corporate responsibility initiative 10 years ago, one of our goals was to increase the firm’s gender, ethnic and racial diversity. In 2016, we established an inclusion and diversity committee. Its mission was to build an inclusive environment where people are respected for who they are and free to thrive. By 2020, we realized that our initiative needed to go further, so we reimagined our committee and deepened our mission to include equity.
Our three employee network groups (ENGs), Women@TT, Mosaic (focused on multicultural issues) and Spectrum (LGBTQIA+), support our equity, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) goals. As the ENGs mature and grow, they develop more programs to engage and educate us all. (See our Annual Review for a timeline of activities).
Our efforts are paying off, not only by creating a welcoming, lifestyle-friendly workplace, but also by earning industry recognition: Thornton Tomasetti was among nine companies that received the American Council of Engineering Companies of New York’s 2022 Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging award in its inaugural year.
In 2021, to fortify our commitment to equity and diversity, we began voluntarily participating in the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index, a national benchmarking tool that rates and reports on corporate policies, practices and benefits related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer workplace inclusion. We’re off to a good start: in our first year of participation, we received a 90 percent rating. And using this year’s score sheet as a road map, we’ll continue working toward a perfect score – and recognition as one of the HRC’s “Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality” – in 2023.