There is a lot that human beings can do well, and yet there is little we do better than growing on a consistent basis. This progressive approach, on our part, has already fetched us some huge milestones, with technology appearing as a rather unique member of the stated group. The reason why technology’s credentials are so anomalous is largely based on its skill-set, which was unprecedented enough to realize all the possibilities for us that we couldn’t have imagined otherwise. Nevertheless, a closer look should be able to reveal how the whole runner was also very much inspired by the way we applied those skills across a real world environment. The latter component was, in fact, what gave the creation a spectrum-wide presence and made it the ultimate centrepiece of every horizon. Now, having such a tool did scale up our experience from many different directions, but even after reaching so far ahead, this prodigious concept called technology will somehow keep on delivering the right goods. The same has grown more and more evident over the recent past, and assuming a new development on the HRM block makes the desired impact, it will only put that trend on a much higher pedestal moving forward.
Glassdoor, the worldwide leader on insights about jobs and companies, has officially launched a new solution in Equity XrayTM, which is designed to address all the employment gaps observed by different demographic groups. Talk about how the solution works, Equity XrayTM relies on anonymous reviews from the company’s existing and former employees, reviews that are typically presented through a rating between 1 and 5. Beyond their two cents on the organization, though, these workers are also requested to provide their demographic information, including gender identity and race/ethnicity. Once the relevant data is logged in, the solution is able to identify companies that offer a more equitable environment, as well as the ones that need some improvement in a given area. Notably, companies appearing in Equity XrayTM must have a minimum of 30 ratings from employees who worked at the company for some period of time over the past year.
“At Glassdoor, we are deeply committed to workplace transparency, and that includes leveraging our products and resources to help achieve equity in and out of the workplace,” said Danny Guillory, Chief People and Diversity Officer at Glassdoor. “By looking under the surface of companies, the Equity Xray™ gives people information that they otherwise would not see. It serves as a purposeful and powerful reminder of the gaps that still exist for companies across all industries in terms of creating an equitable employee experience, where everyone feels welcomed, valued and positioned for success.”
The solution’s release provides an interesting follow-up to one Glassdoor experiment, where the company employed Equity Xray to identify worker experience for over 371 organizations. Going by the available details, one-fifth (18%) of all the eligible employers had significantly different workplace experiences between men and women. This gap is further accentuated with the fact that, for at least two-third of the companies, men had a higher rating than women. Another detail discovered here talked to difference between men and women being higher across sectors like retail, tech, and restaurants & food services. Moving on, in the case of race/ethnicity groups, Equity XrayTM reported disturbingly different workplace experiences at more than one-third (39%) of all eligible companies. All in all, only 16 companies were rated equitable across both gender and race/ethnicity. These companies were Capital One, Chick-fil-A, Citi, Costco Wholesale, DaVita, Honeywell, Lowe’s Home Improvement, Marriott International, Nordstrom, PNC Financial Services Group, Publix, T-Mobile, The Home Depot, UPS, US Army, and US Postal Service.
“With pay transparency now table stakes for many job seekers, employee experience transparency is the next frontier of how companies are working to ensure that candidate expectations are aligned with the reality they will see once onboard,” said Aaron Terrazas, Chief Economist at Glassdoor. “Experience transparency unlocks a virtuous loop of better labor market matches, lower labor churn, and higher worker productivity for companies and the broader economy.”
