Committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace that drives innovation, DXC Technology scores 100% on Disability Equality Index's 'Best Places to Work.'
The Disability Equality Index is a comprehensive, objective, reflective and forward-thinking disability inclusion assessment by Disability:IN and and the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD).
Initiating companies into disability inclusion landscape
The Disability Equality Index (DEI) is a comprehensive benchmarking tool that initiates companies into the disability inclusive landscape, incorporate practices that facilitate inclusive workplaces, and set goals driven by inclusive values.
Data from the DEI helps a company tap into an underutilized and undercapitalized pool of workers with disabilities and progress from accommodation, to inclusion, to genuine belonging.
Scoring the Disability Equality Index
The DEI measures a wide range of criteria within six categories:
- Culture & Leadership: Businesses commit to and demonstrate a sustained, visible cultural commitment to disability inclusion and demonstrate visible leadership commitment to disability inclusion throughout the organization.
- Enterprise-Wide Access: Businesses commit to and demonstrate commitment to workplace accessibility.
- Employment Practices: Businesses commit to and demonstrate commitment to benefits, recruitment practices, employment practices, and accommodation practices that fully incorporate and include individuals with disabilities.
- Community Engagement: Businesses demonstrate public-facing engagement practices that celebrate and support individuals with disabilities.
- Supplier Diversity: Businesses commit to and demonstrate supplier diversity practices that fully include and utilize disability owned, veteran–disability owned businesses and service-disabled veteran owned businesses.
- Non-U.S. Operations: Businesses commit to and demonstrate non-U.S. practices that fully incorporate and include individuals with disabilities.
Importance of disability inclusion
The importance of DXC Technology’s disability inclusion achievement is highlighted in Disability:IN’s Disability Equality Index Report.
Key findings of the report include:
- Hiring talent with disabilities can help stabilize a workforce in flux.
- People with disabilities bring unique work skills and perspectives that foster innovation, which is known to improve financial performance.
- People with disabilities bring diversity of thought and ideas that benefit a company’s customers and stakeholders.
- People with disabilities share lived experiences that contribute deeply to an inclusive work culture, which helps drive engagement and can lead to higher corporate performance metrics.
- People with disabilities who self-report help influence workforce diversity data, corporate diversity goals, and ESG criteria.
Deliver excellence at an inclusive company
DXC Technology drives innovation and delivers excellence thanks to an inclusive culture that encourages diversity of thought.
Forge a great career at DXC Technology.
Find out more
Disclosure: Where Women Work researches and publishes insightful evidence about how its paid member organizations support women's equality.