{"id":43389,"date":"2024-08-16T02:32:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T02:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/?p=43389"},"modified":"2024-09-05T01:56:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T01:56:39","slug":"tips-on-how-businesses-can-improve-diversity-in-the-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/news\/tips-on-how-businesses-can-improve-diversity-in-the-workplace","title":{"rendered":"Tips on how businesses can improve diversity in the workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Diversity is a buzzword in business right now, but not all businesses truly understand what this looks like nor are giving it the focus and priority it deserves. Diversity in the workplace is a broad term and can include everything from gender, religion, race, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation and education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Empirical studies indicate that firms that embrace ethnic and gender diversity enjoy numerous benefits. These include better utilisation of organisational talent, increased marketplace understanding, as well as enhanced creativity and problem-solving capabilities within their teams.\u00a0Additionally, gender-diverse firms have been identified to be 15% more likely to outperform non-gender diverse firms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebusinesstimes.com.au\/business-news\/41895-tips-on-how-businesses-can-improve-diversity-in-the-workplace\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.thebusinesstimes.com.au\/business-news\/41895-tips-on-how-businesses-can-improve-diversity-in-the-workplace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/strong> to read more<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style3 like-43389 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='43389' data-nonce='267e949fe3' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Did you find this useful?' \/><span class='lc-43389 lc'>+1<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style3 unlike-43389 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='43389' data-nonce='267e949fe3' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='' \/><span class='unlc-43389 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-43389 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diversity is a buzzword in business right now, but not all businesses truly understand what this looks like nor are giving it the focus and priority it deserves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":43392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43394,"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43389\/revisions\/43394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}