Diversity in all its forms is fundamental to our business. They operate in a variety of environments and geographies, in numerous roles, for a wide range of clients. To do this effectively they need an equally diverse workforce that understands our customers’ needs and stimulates innovative solutions. They value the benefits that our workforce with its rich diversity of skills, cultural backgrounds and gender brings. The goal is to recruit, motivate, develop, and retain outstanding people that reflect that diversity.
Their diversity policy is robust and forms part of our BS-EN-ISO 9001:2008 accredited management system which supports promoting equal opportunities. They believe an environment where equality exists leads to better performance from all of their employees who will feel they can fulfil their own potential in an atmosphere free from discrimination.
Every employee at Tilbury Douglas has equal opportunity to develop and progress at every level in the organisation based on their own personal contribution and ability and they are committed to training and upskilling our workforce and promoting from within the company. In the past 9 months, we have promoted 78 individuals nationally, testament to their commitment to developing and providing opportunities for our staff’s progression.
Three Winning Facts:
- Investing in our people is a key element of our future business plan. Our people are what makes our business a success and attracting, retaining, and developing a diverse, skilled workforce is vital.
We are committed to training and upskilling our workforce and promoting from within the company, and we are working closely with our industry partners to engage with our future workforce from a young age, across all diverse groups, to attract new talent into our industry. - We have identified areas of improvement in our own recruiting process and have set up a working group to address this by reviewing the diversity of new applicants and by engaging with new initiatives to target underrepresented groups.
- To modernise our ways of working and make our business more inclusive and attractive, we introduced flexible working across the business as a standard working condition in 2021. Many colleagues requested the ability to continue a blended way of working during our employee survey and we recognised that flexible working allows us to support our staff with a better work life balance.
