Tech Talent Charter
The Tech Talent Charter is more than just a nice logo to add to our website.
Founded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport in partnership with the likes of pwc, techUK and HP, this charter was founded to solve the issue of inclusion and diversity in tech across the UK.
Despite improvements over the last few years, the UK tech sector continues to face inclusion challenges, particularly over the role of women and ethnic minorities in the industry.
Of the three million people employed by the UK tech industry, only an estimated 26% of those are women. Meanwhile, only 3% of the sector’s workforce come from BAME backgrounds. The scale of the challenge is therefore huge.
Becoming a Signatory of the Tech Talent Charter makes us part of a network that puts inclusion first and gives us a clear roadmap for becoming a model employer.
With a network comprising companies and organisations of all sizes and across many sectors, we’re able to tap into best practices and knowledge sharing that will boost our innovation efforts.
To become a Signatory we have committed to the following standards:
- We elect a representative to act as Senior Signatory with overall responsibility for ensuring that Workspace 365 achieves its charter commitments.
- We develop an internal plan to improve inclusion. This supports us as we recruit, develop and retain a diverse workforce.
- We commit to collaborating with other Signatory organisations and the TTC to share our best practice, and also the interventions that haven’t worked as well.
- In September every year, we submit our aggregated diversity data for inclusion in TTC’s annual Diversity in Tech benchmarking report.
We also get a lot in return. TTC’s events, toolkits and hackathons don’t just tell us what we need to know to solve problems and innovate, they bring Signatories together to produce practical answers and tangible ways forward for the tech sector as it seeks to recruit more diverse talent..
What’s more TTC’s benchmarking data has given us the insights we need to understand exactly how far we have come, and how much further we need to go. They have provided us with a range of indicators across our industry in relation to inclusion and diversity which we hope will ensure our place as one of the UK’s best new employers in tech.
