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iFood is aligned with the company's goal of having 40% Afro-descendants among its employees and 30% in leadership roles by 2023.

And that's not all. In October 2021, they launched Potência Tech, an initiative to fulfill their public commitments, which consist of training and employing 25,000 low-income people and underrepresented profiles, such as women and people of African descent, in the technology field.

The commitment is to train 5 million people for work and entrepreneurship and impact 5 million students and teachers in the public school system with training in the areas of science, mathematics and technology by 2025.

According to Bruna Nascimento, Senior Communications Analyst at iFood, companies must actively work to mitigate society's historical problems. “When we talk about inclusion, we mean not wanting to leave anyone behind and we understand the need to correct historical debts. It is also the role of companies to give access to those who in the past did not have fair opportunities,” she says.

An easy way to boost diversity within the workplace is to get people talking about it. Affinity groups, events and meetups can be used to encourage discussion about diversity and accessibility issues, as well as to enable HR to lead the creation of diversity policies (more on this on page XX).

Edelman, one of the largest PR firms in the world, began creating affinity groups , according to an interview with the Society for Human Resource Management. They started small, but over the past four mexico consumer mobile number list years they have expanded the number of these groups.

The company has groups for women, LGBTQAIP+ and African Americans, Hispanics, AAPIs and veterans. They plan to launch new groups this year, one for special needs and another for religious tolerance, according to Trisch Smith, chief diversity and inclusion officer at Edelman.

“ These groups have been instrumental during the pandemic, in times of social unrest, and in the fight for racial justice. They have also been critical in bringing difficult and courageous guidelines to everything that is happening, and in healing these moments by providing a safe space ,” Smith says.

Another company that is driving the discussion is Horizon Media. According to Eileen Benwitt , Executive Vice President and Chief Talent Officer, they held their first ever DEI-focused town hall meeting, called Belonging Agency.