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24 Sep 2020
by Dawn Lewis

Dylan Wickenden HRD at EMCOR UK on the increasing awareness of equality in their reward strategy

Dylan Wickenden, HR director at EMCOR UK, speaks with Debi O' Donovan, co-founder and director at REBA, about their approach to diversity and inclusion (D&I) and how this interplays with employee wellbeing.

In this interview O’Donovan asks whether the senior leadership team at EMCOR UK have become more aware of diversity and equality as a result of the coronavirus pandemic – something that Wickenden agrees with. He goes on to explain that the organisation has been running a D&I programme for several years, which most recently focused on gender.

“Where COVID has had an influence – what we’ve started to see – is the effect it has on people’s position from a social-economic point of view. Most of our ethnicity and diverse workforce is lower down the grading structure and that’s an area where our senior leadership haven’t seen too much focus in the past.

“Certainly now with COVID, people having to work from home, the risk factors associated with those from BAME backgrounds and what that means to them in terms of the virus itself, has certainly brought it [D&I] more into focus,” explains Wickenden.

O’Donovan also asks how D&I might play into their approach to employee benefits and reward strategy. Wickenden outlines how they are using an external consultant and their existing benefits provision to look at the benefits that associate with different areas of D&I, and how these can help to better support workplace inclusion.

Wickenden attended REBA’s exclusive Health and Wellbeing as the New Frontier in the Diversity and Inclusion Discourse breakfast in association with Mercer Marsh Benefits. It brought together employers and industry experts to discuss new approaches to employee wellbeing.

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