EMPLOYEE RESOURCE GROUPS

One of our first initiatives was the creation of Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), which create a safe place for employees to raise issues, share best practice and provide insight and recommendations to the DE&I Council, ensuring all voices are heard, valued and respected. Our ERGs support our DE&I initiatives across the pillars that form our multi-year DE&I strategy.

 

Our diversity pillars

Our ERGs support our DE&I initiatives across the pillars that form our multi-year DE&I strategy

LGBTQ+

LGBTQ+

This supports colleagues of all sexualities and gender identities

RACE & ETHNICITY

RACE & ETHNICITY

This focuses on delivering a work culture that supports people of all backgrounds, races and ethnicities

MULTI-GENERATIONAL

MULTI-GENERATIONAL

This is about supporting colleagues at all stages of their life and career, with examples including working carers, parental support and veterans

GENDER

GENDER

This focuses on creating a working culture that ensures gender balance at each level of the organisation and offers equal development opportunities

ABILITY & NEURODIVERSITY

ABILITY & NEURODIVERSITY

Removing barriers for all disabled and neurodivergent colleagues. Putting accessibility at the centre of everything we do

Liberty Global Youth Council

Launched in 2023, the Youth Council is an independent voice made up of 12 appointed members, harnessing youth thinking and culture into Liberty Global by feeding bold perspectives and advising the leadership, leading to a greater diversity of thought. The Council serves as a safe space for testing new ideas, and activating and accelerating initiatives with relevance to consumers, investors, employees and policymakers.

Boosting diversity in our hiring process

All our employees now have access to an augmented AI writing platform that ensures the language we use in our job descriptions and job adverts is inclusive and removes bias towards certain characteristics such as ethnicity, gender or age.

We’ve also introduced conscious inclusion training for hiring managers and more diverse interviewing panels.

Developing our women leaders

We’re introducing mentoring and leadership classes in Finance and Tech as part of our ‘Aspire to Inspire’ programme. We’re also one of the main sponsors of The WICT Network, which aims to empower women in Media, Entertainment and Technology.

Disability inclusion

We’ve joined the Valuable 500, which connects the world’s most influential global leaders in order to make business more inclusive for people with disabilities.

It builds on our decision to take part in the UK Government’s voluntary Disability Confident scheme to ensure we are attracting, recruiting and retaining the widest possible talent pool of colleagues with disabilities.

 

DEPLOYING DATA AND INSIGHTS TO IMPROVE DIVERSITY

In 2021 we rolled out our first-ever inclusion survey to better understand everyone’s experience of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) at Liberty Global and give us actionable insights. We continuously track data and take action in order to improve.