These companies are practising what they preach with diverse workplaces

There’s much talk about promoting diversity in the workplace but, as Andrea Mara learns from eBay’s Rhonda Doyle, there are companies that have taken the message very much to heart

DIVERSITY and inclusion: it’s undeniably a hot topic in business today, but is it just a nice corporate way of saying, “Look at us, we’re progressive, we care!” or is there an on-the-ground impact? To find out more, I spoke to eBay’s Rhonda Doyle about the company’s recent Diversity and Inclusion report, and how it plays out in practice.

In Ireland, eBay can certainly stand over its gender diversity; where the global breakdown is 68% men and 32% women, here the staff is 53% female. I wondered if this was due to the nature of the work, which is primarily customer services.