10. Gender Equality in Recruitment with Gemma Lloyd

For the tenth episode of Reworked we caught up with Gemma
Lloyd, founder of the recruitment app Work180, which has recently
landed in the UK.


Equality, diversity and inclusion often appear in organisational
values and strategy. Work180 helps job seekers know before they
apply which organisations walk their talk.


The Work180 app advertises the job roles of companies that have
already been vetted on their equality-supporting practices.
Businesses are assessed on their maternity/paternity leave and
flexible working policies, their gender pay gap reporting, and a
host of other key criteria. Job seekers can then be confident
that the organisation they are applying to work with has an
inclusive workplace culture.


The app has already been a great success in Australia, where it
receives 90,000 job searches a month, and it will reach New York
and San Francisco very soon. Gemma draws interesting comparisons
of attitudes towards diversity and inclusion between the UK and
Australia. With gender equality and the gender pay gap being on
the forefront of public agenda this year in the UK, she thinks
the app will have an even greater impact here.


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