Biotech and pharmaceutical company, the European Bioinformatics Institute, has come out top of a league of employers rated highly for how they’re doing on diversity and inclusion.

The Institute scored 4.9 out of 5, according to research by Glassdoor’s Economic Research team. Scoring 4.7 were Zscaler, the Good Care Group, Policy Expert, Waterman Aspen, Revolent, Medidata Solutions and Autodesk.

Other companies in the Top 25, rated 4.6, were Faire, Tapi Carpets and Floors, CarShop, Taboola, Peloton Interactive, Zopa, Amadeus, University of Essex, Avanade, ServiceNow, Essence, Version 1, VetPartners, Dishoom, Thoughtworks, Xero and Allstate Northern Ireland.

The Glassdoor Economic Research team compiled the list of Top 25 UK Companies for Diversity and Inclusion from more than 290,000 diversity and inclusion ratings on Glassdoor from UK-based full- and part-time employees between 20 August 2021 and 19 August 2022. The rankings included only companies with at least 500 global employees and 20 diversity and inclusion ratings in the time period considered. The survey, undertaken by OnePoll on behalf of Glassdoor, surveyed 2,000 UK employees who work full time between 30 March and 11 April 2022.

However, while some employers are committed to equality, a separate Glassdoor survey ahead of Black History Month found black employees are being impacted by the ethnicity pay gap, and their workplace experience isn’t equal to that of their co-workers. The survey found two in five have experienced a pay gap because of their ethnicity or believe it exists in their company, 66% think their employer needs to do more to close the ethnicity pay gap and half say the gap has widened in the past two years.

More than half (57%) believe the pay gap could be closed by increased salary transparency.

Glassdoor’s UK economist, Lauren Thomas, who carried out the research, said: “Diversity and inclusion have been increasingly prioritised by employers in the last two years…However, it is clear that more still needs to be done before equality can be achieved in the workplace”.

 

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