Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
What we stand for
Aquent is an equal opportunity employer. We believe an inclusive environment—where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued—is critical to ensuring everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive. We also believe that diversity goes beyond race and gender. Diversity includes things that are visible and those that are not. It’s a person’s age, status, ability, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, and so much more. These differences help foster a more progressive workplace. We embrace them all.
“Time's up for talk—we need to take action.”
JOHN CHUANG / CEO, AQUENT
Here's how we're taking action.
Recruiting
- Developed ongoing audit of the full recruitment life cycle.
- Expanding diversified talent networks and pipelines.
- Offering unbiased anonymised resumes.
- Creating gender-neutral job descriptions.
- Reinforcing interview best practices.
- Ensuring pay parity and equity for all employees.
- Developed multiple guides for hiring managers to take action on diversity, equity and inclusion in their workplaces.
Monitoring
- Expanded equality data collection & monitoring using the ENAR data collection model based on 6 principles to ensure that personal data protection standards are met in respect of EU and Dutch national legislation.
- Measuring progress on an ongoing basis.
Education
- Formed local and international internal Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Councils with representatives from across the company.
- Set out our commitments to workplace diversity signing the Dutch Diversity Charter & providing our employees with free access to a unique knowledge bank of research, best practices and expertise across all the diversity dimensions.
- Developed company-wide education materials, training, and discussions around underrepresented groups, racial injustice, and its historical significance.
- Expanded our resource library and access to external courses on themes like mitigating bias and fostering an inclusive workplace.
Community
- Raised over $110,000 in contributions to social justice organizations including more than $66,000 to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
- Formed Employee Resource Groups for BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and working parents and allies.
- Giving time off to vote in local, state, and national elections.
- Awarding Designing for Good grants that help bring creative ideas to life for nonprofits.
- Creating an Aquent Cookbook with nearly 90 recipes celebrating the diversity of Aquent's multicultural employees in a simple and playful way.
- Sharing talent art from creators of color or that celebrate diversity, equity, and inclusion across our social media platforms.
- Providing free, real-time market salary data to the public through our Compare My Salary Tool.
- Engaging in candid conversations as part of the Voices of Aquent series that explores topics involving diverse groups of employees at Aquent including BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and working parents and allies.
- Ensuring that the events we run and participate in includes diverse speakers.
A commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion is in our DNA.
As an organization, we have been committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion from day one, and we’re now formalising our approach and building it into every aspect of our company. We’ve formed employee-led Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Councils in every country we work in to help drive this work forward. We’re holding ourselves accountable to create a better future, assess our progress, and identify opportunities to continuously improve.
