An inclusive culture enhances team creativity and innovation, directly improving the value we offer to our clients by offering a broader range of perspectives, tailored solutions and stronger partnerships.
What an inclusive culture means to NCC Group
We aim to create an environment where all colleagues feel psychologically, emotionally and physically safe to be authentic and representative of the diversity of the world they live in, to share their personal experiences and to have equal opportunity to achieve.
This brings to life our values – working together, being brilliantly creative, embracing difference and taking responsibility – all of which are essential elements in driving forward our technological advancements and maintaining a competitive edge in the market.
Our approach to inclusion and diversity
We recognise and take responsibility for the role we can play in improving diversity across the whole of the technology sector. Inclusion and diversity principles are embedded into our hiring and talent management process, partnering with external organisations to ensure we are accessible to a more diverse candidate base.
Unconscious bias training is part of our standard training offer and our colleague resource groups play an important role providing input to ways of working, engaging and educating colleagues and creating a voice for underrepresented communities across our global business.
Our progress
We continue to make progress in building a more inclusive workplace and at the heart of this is creating policies that help and support colleagues at moments that matter throughout their lives.
An example of this was in autumn 2024, which saw us launch our new and harmonised global family-friendly policies. This aligns with our ambition to be a leading family-friendly employer and offer enhanced leave programmes from day one of a colleague’s experience with NCC Group.
This suite of “moments that matter” policies include marriage/civil ceremonies, pregnancy loss, fertility treatment, maternity and paternity leave, menopause, moving home, pet care and cancer related milestones and treatment.
Also in 2024, we undertook our first inclusion survey in collaboration with the colleague resource groups, to get input from colleagues on what matters, helping to shape our future agenda. We had a 49% response rate and the colleague resource groups will work with HR to prioritise and take forward actions.
Our future and ambition
We will continue to seek partnerships and alliances with external partners where it aligns with our values and strategic priorities to strengthen our diversity initiatives beyond the NCC Group community.
