Equity HR
EQiSpace’s main transformational service is Equity HR, which creates race, gender, and ability representation at all organizational levels. We do this by helping the private, public, and NGO sectors build equitable workplaces — with an authentic antiracist, anti-oppression and anti-harassment culture —from the ground-up.
Antiracist workplaces are equitable and representative workplaces; they don’t separate non-white people from white people, they bring people of all racial backgrounds together. EQiSpace can help employers attract, retain, and develop talented people who consciously choose a new and equitable way of working and who want to work for organizations where race, gender, and ability differences and identities are acknowledged and valued.
Equity HR is a commitment to being, at a minimum, statistically representative of the population of men, women, nonwhite people and people with disabilities an organization serves — local, regional, or national. It’s also a commitment to ensure that women, nonwhite people, and people with disabilities are equitably represented at every level of an organization, along with equitable pay and career advancement.
Anti-racist and anti-harassment workplaces are where hard, uncomfortable conversations happen, and where issues surrounding racism, sexism and harassment aren’t taboo — they’re openly discussed. Through applied values, ethics, anti-racist and anti-harassment principles, organizations can enhance racial and harassment literacy and their ability to identify and confront routine forms of discrimination.
Equity HR | Focus Areas and Pitch Decks
EQiSpace is focused on effecting change in key labour market sectors experiencing acute race and gender inequity.
We have targeted client and investor pitch decks prepared for the Construction, Finance, and Health sectors, in addition to a general pitch to public and private sector organizations.
Racial Equity Audits
Leveraging our audit expertise to meet industry demand, EQiSpace will position itself as a leader in the provision of racial equity audits (REAs), which will be offered on a stand-alone basis or in combination with our Equity HR services.
REAs are independent, objective, transparent and comprehensive analyses of companies’ policies, practices, products, and services, along with their efforts to combat and end systemic racism both internally within companies, and externally with respect to the treatment of customers, suppliers and other stakeholders.
In response to long-standing racial inequities and racial wage gaps exposed by COVID-19 in 2020, an increasing number of companies and investors advocated for greater workforce racial equity, linking racial equity outcomes to employers’ environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations, and supporting REAs as a way to measure progress on racial equity objectives.
Underpinning REAs is the argument that if companies are serious about making racial justice and racial equity a central part of their organizations, then they should treat racial justice and racial equity objectives like any other part of their operations, and audit their performance in achieving those objectives. In addition, REAs should not be considered as an end process for change, but rather the catalyst for making companies racially equitable.
REAs can therefore inform investors about current and future investments from a social and financial perspective, and help companies craft policies and practices to achieve social justice and financial goals (x).
EQiSpace will conduct — through an anti-racism lens — high caliber, independent, objective and comprehensive racial equity audits. The benefits of a racial equity audit are enormous when accompanied by a commitment to act on findings and build workplace racial equity.
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