It is a best practice to keep your executive team and your company’s board in the loop about the progress you are making over time with SameWorks. We strive to make it as easy as possible for you to keep stakeholders invested in your diversity and inclusion programs.
We suggest you pull the following metrics on a quarterly basis in order to ensure your company can observe changes, and intervene in the case that the trends are not progressing as quickly or in the direction that is desired.
Key Metrics for Same Pay Certification
- Total # and financial impact of adjustments made, past year (and quarter if applicable)
- Applicant breakdown, past quarter, by gender and diversity
- Employee attrition rate overall, and by gender and diversity
- Results of exit surveys: primary reasons for leaving. We suggest you include “Fairness” as a category, as recent studies have shown up to 40% of workers in technology industries leave due to perceived lack of fairness.
- Web/Marketing metrics related to campaigns and landing pages:
- Customer referrals from SameWorks certification page
- Candidate/applicant referrals from SameWorks certification page
- Traffic stats for your company’s certification landing page
- Performance of Facebook and Twitter campaigns related to Same Pay Certification (measuring against baseline campaign performance metrics
Key Metrics for Diversity and Inclusion
- Changes over time in gender, by department and overall
- Changes over time in diversity, by department and overall
- New hires, past quarter, by gender and diversity
- Employee attrition rate overall, and by gender and diversity
- Leadership team (People managers and up), by gender and diversity
- Applicant breakdown, past quarter, by gender and diversity