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December 3 is Worldwide Day of Individuals with Disabilities (IDPD), a worldwide celebration of the achievements and invaluable contributions of individuals with disabilities. This 12 months’s theme, “Fostering disability-inclusive societies for advancing social progress,” highlights a robust fact: the inclusion of individuals with disabilities isn’t nearly illustration — it’s about entry, fairness, and making certain their voices actively form the world round us.
At Salesforce, we embrace the worldwide incapacity rights motion’s mantra, “Nothing About Us With out Us,” as a guideline in our journey towards higher inclusion. Accessibility is not only a worth we champion; it’s a catalyst for innovation, fairness, and sustainable progress. It means creating areas the place everybody can thrive, contribute their distinctive skills, and form options that drive significant change. We achieve this via our dedication to product accessibility and thru our Workplace of Accessibility’s applications and initiatives like Disabilities at Work, Workforce Navigators, and extra.
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As we have fun IDPD, we reaffirm our dedication to advancing accessibility every single day of the 12 months. From empowering leaders with disabilities to breaking down obstacles worldwide, listed below are a number of methods we’re constructing a future that’s inclusive for all.
The Energy of Partnerships
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Creating an inclusive office isn’t one thing we are able to obtain alone. Partnerships play an enormous position in driving accessibility and incapacity inclusion — serving to us amplify our impression and guarantee equitable alternatives for workers and candidates around the globe. By means of collaborations with native organizations, nonprofits, and group leaders, we’re higher geared up to design significant applications and implement sustainable modifications.
Within the United States, we’ve got a partnership with Blind Institute of Know-how (BIT), based by the 2023 Dreamforce Golden Hoodie award winner, Mike Hess. By means of our partnership, BIT has been capable of safe a 7-figure federal grant to broaden their mission to assist staff with disabilities discover success within the office. There’s additionally our twenty-five-year (and counting!) partnership with The Arc San Francisco. Collectively, we’ve developed career-building applications that present mentorship, job coaching, and significant employment alternatives at our Salesforce HQ tower.
In the UK, we’ve joined the government-led Incapacity Assured Scheme, which empowers companies to recruit and retain expertise with disabilities. Our partnership with Evenbreak, a specialised incapacity job board, enhances our outreach to candidates with disabilities and people who are neurodivergent. Evenbreak additionally offers tailor-made assist for job seekers via their Profession Hive, serving to candidates really feel assured and ready as they discover alternatives at Salesforce.
By working intently with native stakeholders, we’re embedding accessibility in every single place — from office lodging to organizational tradition.
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Supporting Staff with Disabilities
Supporting staff with disabilities means creating an atmosphere the place they really feel assured to share their wants, entry tailor-made sources, and thrive of their roles.
In the U.S., we’re actively creating alternatives for folks with disabilities to construct profitable careers throughout the Salesforce ecosystem via applications like our Workforce Navigators Program. This program trains professionals with disabilities in in-demand Salesforce expertise and certifications and connects staff with mentors, offering them with the instruments to thrive in a aggressive job market. For workers looking for tailor-made one-on-one assist, we’ve got a our Accessibility Session Program, which helps them establish advantages, office changes, and tailor-made sources. One among our tailor-made sources is Retain — our cutting-edge, AI-powered platform from Inclusively that helps staff discover options to their office accessibility challenges.
We additionally provide a worldwide mentorship program throughout the U.S., EMEA, India, and LATAM to develop incapacity expertise via training, storytelling, and peer-to-peer mentorship connections. Our neurodiversity job coach program reaches our staff in AMER, EMEA, Japan, LATAM, and APAC. It offers assist for neurodivergent colleagues in managing work methods, communication, and time administration, serving to them absolutely leverage their strengths.
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Educating and Empowering Individuals Leaders
Fostering actually inclusive workplaces begins with our folks managers, so we’re particularly thrilled to acknowledge IDPD’s theme this 12 months. Our leaders set the tone, drive cultural change, and be certain that all staff really feel valued and supported. That’s why we’ve prioritized empowering our folks managers with the data, instruments, and sources they should lead inclusively.
In Eire, we partnered with the Incapacity Federation of Eire to ship a hybrid coaching collection that geared up managers with actionable insights on main disability-inclusive groups, from creating accessible workspaces to understanding the nuances of lodging.
Localized coaching classes for folks managers have been efficiently carried out in Italy, Spain, France, the UK, and Germany, in collaboration with knowledgeable companion organizations
In Japan, we expanded our efforts with focused enablement workshops targeted on office lodging. These classes emphasised the significance of tailoring lodging to particular person wants and fostering an inclusive tradition that celebrates variety. By means of these workshops, leaders gained a deeper understanding of finest practices for supporting staff with disabilities.
We’ve got modules on Trailhead, our free on-line studying platform, targeted on incapacity inclusion matters, together with inclusive hiring practices, accessible digital content material creation, and constructing inclusive groups, that educate and empower all staff. These modules equip managers and staff with actionable insights and finest practices to champion accessibility of their day-to-day roles.
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Recognition and the Highway Forward
This 12 months, we have been honored to be acknowledged with a 100% Incapacity Equality Index rating on Incapacity:IN’s Greatest Locations to Work for Incapacity Inclusion checklist for the seventh consecutive 12 months in 4 international locations (US, Germany, UK, Japan, Brazil, and India). However the work doesn’t cease there.
As we replicate on this 12 months’s theme of empowering folks and fostering participation, we’re impressed to proceed advocating for accessibility and fairness in all features of life and work. Collectively, we are able to take away obstacles and create environments the place everybody, no matter capacity, can succeed.
This December 3 and past, be part of us in celebrating accessibility, innovation, and the facility of inclusion. Let’s construct a future the place everybody can thrive.
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