Every year, we celebrate Deloitte Diversity & Inclusion Week, organised to coincide with the week on which International Women’s Day takes place. The week highlights a broader focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion in order to create awareness and put a face on the diversity which strengthens our firm.
The focus of this year's Diversity & Inclusion Week was intersectionality – the way that each and every one of us is unique and represents our own mix of characteristics. At the same time, we also wanted to show how, rather than separating or dividing us, our differences in fact bring us together with a shared purpose.
As such, we decided to showcase how diverse and multifaceted our talents are throughout the week. Fifteen life-size cardboard figures showing Deloitters holding a sign with some of each person’s identifications were placed in the renovated café area on the ground floor.
Deliberately placed at such a popular spot, the cardboard figures greeted all entrants to the Deloitte office in Copenhagen. They quickly became an attraction inside Deloitte as well as on social media. It was inspiring to see our talents reading the messages on these figures and engaging with this campaign.
At Deloitte, we want everyone to feel they can be themselves and thrive at work, and we take seriously our responsibility to create an inclusive workplace. Living our values such as ‘taking care of each other’ and ‘fostering inclusion’ is essential in enabling and achieving this aim.