Over the past few years, many organizations have taken strides to build diversity, equity, and inclusion into their policies and hiring practices. With DEI in mind, companies are considering how to better support employees. While concepts such as biodiversity are important offshoots of the core idea of diversity, this article focuses on diversity, equity, and inclusion in business and society rather than in other contexts.Ĭompanies that are diverse, equitable, and inclusive are better able to respond to challenges, win top talent, and meet the needs of different customer bases. Quite simply, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is used to describe three values that many organizations today strive to embody to help meet the needs of people from all walks of life.
Diversity-through the lenses of race, ethnicity, ability, gender, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, and beyond-can help to strengthen organizations, as studies have shown time and again.