ISS UK & Ireland has won two awards from the Employers Network for Equality & Inclusion (ENEI): ‘Employer of the Year Private Sector’ and ‘Inclusive Culture Private Sector’.
The ENEI is the UK’s leading employer network covering equality and inclusion in the workplace, and its annual awards recognise achievements in developing a truly inclusive organisational culture.
Matthew Brabin, Country Manager, ISS UK & Ireland, said, “For ISS to become the world’s greatest service organisation over the long term, we are passionate about our ability to demonstrate that we are taking our responsibilities to manage our environmental and social impacts seriously.
'Building a diverse and inclusive culture is not just the right thing to do, but is also fundamental to our future business success, which is built on delivering service with a human touch. We also applaud all of those organisations who are recognised in the enei award and continue to build links across the Facilities Management industry.”
ISS UK & Ireland employs over 40,000 people from more than 166 different countries. With such a diverse workforce, inclusion is integral to ISS’s business success, and the award demonstrates the organisation’s continued focus on this area. ISS Denmark has previously conducted research that showed a clear impact of diversity on the bottom line.
Stephanie Hamilton, Director of People and Culture, ISS UK & Ireland, said, “I am delighted that the enei award presenters identified that they were ‘astonished’ with our 80% score on the question ‘I am treated with respect as an individual'; we are really proud of this feedback too.
'This data was taken from our annual employee engagement survey, where all of our people in our organisation in the UK and Ireland are invited to complete the survey and give feedback about how engaged and enabled they feel about working at ISS.”
The recognition at the awards ceremony on 10 July came within days of ISS UK taking part in its first Pride in London parade on 14 July.
Pictured left to right is Nicky Siddall-Collier, ISS Employment Law Specialist; Ben Bolt, ISS Corporate Responsibility Business Partner; and Paul Deemer, Head of Equality, Diversity and Human Rights at NHS Employers (award sponsors).
