Winner: Mace

During the virtual celebrations of its inaugural inclusion week in September 2020, Mace took the next step in sharing externally its diversity and inclusion strategy, which will shape its approach to addressing equality, diversity and inclusion over the next three years. This marks a new determination at the most senior levels of the business to tackle long-term structural inequalities across both the Mace business and the wider sector. The strategy’s key aims are to become an industry leader and influencer in the arena, to work collaboratively with partners to promote diversity and inclusion, and to improve the company’s diversity and inclusion capability and create robust and transparent processes, policies and systems.

The company is also committed to using evidence-based insights, data and experience to progress its diversity and inclusion commitments. These data-based targets include improving the gender and ethnicity pay gap by 10% year-on-year and expanding diversity at the most senior levels by increasing the number of diverse hires at associate director level by 15%. Alongside this strategy, the firm also voluntarily shares its ethnicity pay gap data as well as its gender pay gap data.

Mace’s approach to recruitment has also been refreshed, with all recruitment managers completing training in Clear Assured recruitment methods, alongside updating external advertising to be more inclusive and offer greater flexibility for potential candidates. Of the 75 apprentices and graduates that the company recruited last year, 35% identified as female and 20% identified as being from an ethnic minority background.

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