This means women, who might need hybrid or remote work options more than any other demographic, could be those most worried about how a return to work would impact their careers. As many businesses are currently discussing a return to work, it makes these concerns especially timely. Carolina Milanesi, a Consumer Tech analyst and Forbes contributor<\/a>,<\/span> states, \u201cIt is time we decouple work from office presence. Some work can be done anywhere and going to the office should be a purpose-driven choice that does not translate to better opportunity or a faster career path.\u201d If it does, it\u2019s clear which demographic a business is most willing to disadvantage.<\/p>\n At Poly, our goal is to do the right thing in the right way, every time, and we are committed to creating equitable opportunities and an inclusive workplace for all. We embrace our flexible working policy and hybrid working reality\u2014it\u2019s ingrained within our culture\u2014not a limited-time benefit. In addition, according to the Gender Social Norms index<\/a><\/span>, over 40 percent of the world\u2019s population feel that men make better business executives and that men have more right to a job when jobs are scarce. This attitude does not prevail at Poly. We challenge ourselves to break the bias every day and pursue improvement to gender balance in leadership roles and female representation at all levels. Click here<\/a> to read more about our gender balance goals and our partnership with Advancing Women Executives<\/a><\/span>, which helps accelerate women\u2019s careers.<\/p>\n To break the bias against women, we all have to do better and hold ourselves accountable. Together, we will create an equal, equitable workplace, advancing diversity, inclusion and gender balance at Poly. Reaching this equitable future will take time, effort and investment, and Poly is committed to making it happen. Follow our progress in our external facing Corporate Social Responsibility report, publishing in May, under Inclusion, Diversity, Education and Awareness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every International Women\u2019s Day, we pause to celebrate women\u2019s social, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[524],"tags":[2246,105,111],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23917"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24022,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23917\/revisions\/24022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/WLG-Logo-300x147.jpg\"){kind=logo}
We are also very lucky to have passionate people at Poly who are committed to addressing gender inequity. Many of these internal leaders are part of our Women\u2019s Leadership Group (WLG), an active Employee Resource Group (ERG) since 2017. This ERG takes action year-round to support women and ensure that gender diversity is priority at Poly. Just this January, our WLG brought cognitive neuroscientists Dr. Sahar Yousef and Professor Lucas Miller, from the University of California, Berkeley back to Poly to deliver a second webinar on Becoming Superhuman: The Science of Managing your Time, Focus and Energy. As businesses across all industries trend toward remote and hybrid work<\/a><\/span>, productivity barriers are more relevant than ever, and it makes providing employees with the support and tools to effectively combat them especially important. Dr. Yousef and Professor Miller taught us how to do just that. Our WLG also hosts numerous educational sessions, and this International Women\u2019s Day, Estelle Jackson, our Inclusion, Diversity, Education and Awareness leader, will be sharing her \u2018Day in the Life\u2019 journey to teach us how various situations, avenues and milestones have led her to where she is today. We will later hear from women in our Middle East and North Africa region.<\/p>\n