Read our article on social mobility in the workplace as new insights reveal that socioeconomic background significantly impacts career development and pay 📊 Employees from working-class backgrounds can earn 17% less than those categorised as middle class. Tackling this class ceiling requires deliberate action 🚀 Key steps include debiasing HR practices, offering tailored training, and fostering employee representation 🌍 Lutfur R. Ali - Chartered FCIPD says: People professionals need to ensure HRM practices are debiased and positively enable people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds to secure equality of outcomes throughout the employee lifecycle 💻 Read more here: https://ow.ly/Z71h50SEbSF #CIPD #HR #EDI #People #Workplace
Vicky Eaveson
1mo
Great article! It's disappointing that social mobility has not improved and I agree that employers should definitely be doing more. I'm from a working class background and have experienced first-hand the "class ceiling" in terms of not been given opportunities for development, but people who had studied at Russell Group universities had.
HR Professional | Entrepreneur | Policy & Operational Contractor
1moSuch an important topic. HR professionals are key agents in helping organsisations action such change. Something as simple as removing unnecessary barriers for job applications, for example, does a role require specific results from higher education? Not all will. I have had the pleasure of hiring and working with excellent people who did not have an opportunity to go to University due to their economic background. Instead, they joined with a passion to learn on the job. The organisation soon recognised their value and performance, giving them the internal opportunities to progress to leadership. This is just one small way of making a big change and providing equal opportunity.