Workplace Wellbeing: An inclusive workforce is good for business

Diversity in the workplace delivers dividends to employees and employers, with research showing it leads to greater levels of job satisfaction and retention

Research by global management consultants McKinsey in 2015 showed that companies with greater racial and ethnic diversity were 35% more likely to have higher financial returns and six times more likely to be innovative.

Olayiwola (Lai) Arogundade’s family moved from Lagos to Dublin when he was 12. Now aged 43 and working as head of devices at Vodafone, the Ireland he remembers was far from the diverse country it is today.

“At school, university and out and about with my friends, I was often the only person who wasn’t of traditional Irish descent,” he says.