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Diversity in the workplace
Rasha Mourtada
GlobeandMail.com
 
Marc St-Amour's definition of diversity in the workplace may surprise you. "Our controller needs to leave every day at 5 p.m. to pick up his baby at the baby sitter," he says. "That means meetings can't be held any time after 3:30 to accommodate his needs. That's something we consider to be diversity."
Renée Bazile-Jones agrees with the VP of human and financial resources at Expographiq, a Gatineau, Que.-based firm that designs and builds exhibits. "There's a huge level of misinformation about what diversity is," says Bazile-Jones, president of Unparalleled Inc, a diversity and inclusion consulting company in Toronto. "We need to look at diversity as being about all individual differences."

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Diversity in the workplace

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Policy Building, Work-Life Balance, Mission, Legal Structures, Corporate Culture, Recruiting and Hiring, Compensation and Benefits, Managing Employees, Difficult Employees, Team Building, View more...

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Rasha Mourtada
GlobeandMail.com

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Canada

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