ThoughtWorks
  • Kontakt
  • Español
  • Português
  • English
  • 中文
Übersicht
  • Delivery Mindset trifft Software-Exzellenz

    Verfolgen Sie einen innovativen Ansatz in der Softwareentwicklung, um noch schneller erfolgreich zu sein.

    Erkenntnisgestützte Entscheidungsfindung

    Nutzen Sie Ihre Datenbestände, um neue Geschäftsmöglichkeiten zu erschließen.

  • Betriebsmodelle ohne Reibungsverluste

    Verbessern Sie die Fähigkeit Ihres Unternehmens, auf Veränderungen zu reagieren.

    Plattform Strategie

    Entwicklung dynamischer Technologieplattformen, die sich an Ihre Geschäftsstrategie anpassen.

  • Experience Design und innovative Produkte

    Liefern Sie schnell außergewöhnliche Produkte und Kundenerlebnisse. Entwickeln Sie Design und Funktion kontinuierlich weiter.

    Partnerschaften

    Nutzung unseres Netzwerks aus vertrauenswürdigen Partnern, um noch bessere Ergebnisse für unsere Kunden zu erzielen.

Übersicht
  • Automobil
  • Clientech, Energie und Versorgung
  • Banken und Versicherungen
  • Gesundheit
  • Medien
  • Non-Profit
  • Öffentlicher Sektor
  • Handel und E-Commerce
  • Reise und Transport
Übersicht

Unsere Empfehlungen

  • Technologie

    Ausführliche Betrachtungen neuer Technologien.

  • Business

    Aktuelle Business-Insights, Strategien und Impulse für digitale Querdenker.

  • Kultur

    Insights zu Karrieremöglichkeiten und unsere Sicht auf soziale Gerechtigkeit und Inklusivität.

Digitale Veröffentlichungen und Tools

  • Technology Radar

    Unser Leitfaden für aktuelle Technologietrends.

  • Perspectives

    Unsere Publikation für digitale Vordenker*innen

  • Digital Fluency Model

    Ein Modell zur Priorisierung digitaler Fähigkeiten, um für das Unvorhersehbare bereit zu sein.

  • Decoder

    Der Technology-Guide für Business Entscheider

Alle Insights

  • Artikel

    Expertenwissen für Ihr Unternehmen.

  • Blogs

    Persönliche Perspektiven von ThoughtWorkern aus aller Welt.

  • Bücher

    Stöbern Sie durch unsere umfangreiche Bibliothek.

  • Podcasts

    Spannende Gespräche über das Neueste aus Business und Technologie.

Übersicht
  • Bewerbungsprozess

    Finde heraus, was dich in unserem Bewerbungsprozess erwartet.

  • Hochschulabsovent*innen und Quereinsteiger*innen

    Dein Einstieg in die IT-Welt.

  • Stellenangebote

    Finde offene Stellen in deiner Region.

  • In Kontakt bleiben

    Abonniere unsere monatlichen Updates.

Übersicht
  • Konferenzen und Events
  • Diversity und Inclusion
  • Neuigkeiten
  • Open Source
  • Management
  • Social Change
  • Español
  • Português
  • English
  • 中文
ThoughtWorksMenü
  • schließen   ✕
  • Unsere Services
  • Unsere Kunden
  • Insights
  • Karriere
  • Über uns
  • Kontakt
  • Zurück
  • schließen   ✕
  • Übersicht
  • Delivery Mindset trifft Software-Exzellenz

    Verfolgen Sie einen innovativen Ansatz in der Softwareentwicklung, um noch schneller erfolgreich zu sein.

  • Experience Design und innovative Produkte

    Liefern Sie schnell außergewöhnliche Produkte und Kundenerlebnisse. Entwickeln Sie Design und Funktion kontinuierlich weiter.

  • Betriebsmodelle ohne Reibungsverluste

    Verbessern Sie die Fähigkeit Ihres Unternehmens, auf Veränderungen zu reagieren.

  • Erkenntnisgestützte Entscheidungsfindung

    Nutzen Sie Ihre Datenbestände, um neue Geschäftsmöglichkeiten zu erschließen.

  • Partnerschaften

    Nutzung unseres Netzwerks aus vertrauenswürdigen Partnern, um noch bessere Ergebnisse für unsere Kunden zu erzielen.

  • Plattform Strategie

    Entwicklung dynamischer Technologieplattformen, die sich an Ihre Geschäftsstrategie anpassen.

  • Zurück
  • schließen   ✕
  • Übersicht
  • Automobil
  • Clientech, Energie und Versorgung
  • Banken und Versicherungen
  • Gesundheit
  • Medien
  • Non-Profit
  • Öffentlicher Sektor
  • Handel und E-Commerce
  • Reise und Transport
  • Zurück
  • schließen   ✕
  • Übersicht
  • Unsere Empfehlungen

  • Technologie

    Ausführliche Betrachtungen neuer Technologien.

  • Business

    Aktuelle Business-Insights, Strategien und Impulse für digitale Querdenker.

  • Kultur

    Insights zu Karrieremöglichkeiten und unsere Sicht auf soziale Gerechtigkeit und Inklusivität.

  • Digitale Veröffentlichungen und Tools

  • Technology Radar

    Unser Leitfaden für aktuelle Technologietrends.

  • Perspectives

    Unsere Publikation für digitale Vordenker*innen

  • Digital Fluency Model

    Ein Modell zur Priorisierung digitaler Fähigkeiten, um für das Unvorhersehbare bereit zu sein.

  • Decoder

    Der Technology-Guide für Business Entscheider

  • Alle Insights

  • Artikel

    Expertenwissen für Ihr Unternehmen.

  • Blogs

    Persönliche Perspektiven von ThoughtWorkern aus aller Welt.

  • Bücher

    Stöbern Sie durch unsere umfangreiche Bibliothek.

  • Podcasts

    Spannende Gespräche über das Neueste aus Business und Technologie.

  • Zurück
  • schließen   ✕
  • Übersicht
  • Bewerbungsprozess

    Finde heraus, was dich in unserem Bewerbungsprozess erwartet.

  • Hochschulabsovent*innen und Quereinsteiger*innen

    Dein Einstieg in die IT-Welt.

  • Stellenangebote

    Finde offene Stellen in deiner Region.

  • In Kontakt bleiben

    Abonniere unsere monatlichen Updates.

  • Zurück
  • schließen   ✕
  • Übersicht
  • Konferenzen und Events
  • Diversity und Inclusion
  • Neuigkeiten
  • Open Source
  • Management
  • Social Change
Blogs
Wählen Sie ein Thema
Alle Themen ansehenschließen
Technologie 
Agiles Projektmanagement Cloud Continuous Delivery  Data Science & Engineering Defending the Free Internet Evolutionäre Architekturen Experience Design IoT Sprachen, Tools & Frameworks Modernisierung bestehender Alt-Systeme Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence Microservices Plattformen Sicherheit Software Testing Technologiestrategie 
Geschäft 
Financial Services Global Health Innovation Retail  Transformation 
Karriere 
Karriere Hacks Diversity und Inclusion Social Change 
Blogs

Themen

Thema auswählen
  • Technologie
    Technologie
  • Technologie Überblick
  • Agiles Projektmanagement
  • Cloud
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Data Science & Engineering
  • Defending the Free Internet
  • Evolutionäre Architekturen
  • Experience Design
  • IoT
  • Sprachen, Tools & Frameworks
  • Modernisierung bestehender Alt-Systeme
  • Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence
  • Microservices
  • Plattformen
  • Sicherheit
  • Software Testing
  • Technologiestrategie
  • Geschäft
    Geschäft
  • Geschäft Überblick
  • Financial Services
  • Global Health
  • Innovation
  • Retail
  • Transformation
  • Karriere
    Karriere
  • Karriere Überblick
  • Karriere Hacks
  • Diversity und Inclusion
  • Social Change
Karriere HacksDiversity und InclusionKarriere

Beyond quotas: behaviour driven diversity at ThoughtWorks Australia

Emma Mani Emma Mani
JoJo Swords JoJo Swords

Published: Feb 5, 2019

With a mission of revolutionising the IT industry, ThoughtWorks has made creating and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workforce part of our DNA.

We come to work as ourselves. We enjoy each other’s company. We value honesty and transparency. Appearances and backgrounds aren’t important to us; ideas and doing the right thing are.
- ThoughtWorks.com


We value diversity, not only because of our firm belief that it is the right thing to do, but also because we maintain that our organisational culture, our clients, and our industry benefit from the backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives of people from all walks of life.

As technologists, it's our responsibility to ensure the software powering our world is built by a workforce reflective of the society we serve.
- Rebecca Parsons, CTO, ThoughtWork.
We are especially proud of our work in the gender equality space, where we have invested heavily in ways to support and develop female technologists within the business, from recruitment and remuneration, through to parental policies and leadership opportunities.

We have already made great strides ahead of our peers in the technology industry, with 50% females in our organisation, compared to just 34.8% female in the Australian IT Workforce. (WGEA data: August 2018.) However, we know that there is always more we can do to drive the industry benchmark forwards. In the words of our CTO, Rebecca Parsons: ‘We are not done yet.’

Fostering equality has long been a strong value of our business, but we really put our money where our mouth is six years ago, by undertaking a program of intentional focus and investment on the diversity and inclusivity of our workforce. We applied a deliberate diversity lens across all of our business decisions and processes and built that way of thinking into our ongoing operations and behaviours.

Courageous leadership has been necessary to make brave (and sometimes unpopular) decisions to deliberately increase the diversity of our organisation.

One such example is the introduction of gender recruitment quotas in our hiring process at ThoughtWorks Australia. We aim to hire equal numbers of male and female employees because we believe that good intentions are not enough to redress the massive gender imbalance in technology.

Some people feel uncomfortable with this approach, believing that it encourages a ‘lower bar’ for talent. For us, having quotas does not mean hiring a female who is not fit for the role or our culture, but actually means investing more time and energy into finding high-calibre female candidates, who have the right skills and potential to be successful.

But, hiring is just one component of equality. Once we bring these diverse and talented employees into our business, we need to work hard to retain them. Being deliberate about inclusivity is an equally important part of our journey.
We know that we won’t always get things right, but we continue to analyse our approach, listen to the feedback of our candidates and employees, and to experiment with new ideas to hold ourselves and our industry to account.

Here’s what we’ve done so far:

Creating equal career progression opportunities

Earlier in 2018, we noticed that the career progression for our female developers was much slower than their male counterparts. In fact, 3 times slower, according to our data. This statistic shocked us, and we knew we wanted to fix it. But how?  

We undertook a research project to analyse the cause of this issue and to address any gaps in our progression processes. We interviewed a number of our female and male developers, at various stages of their careers, about their experiences at ThoughtWorks.

We discovered that many of our technical women were less confident about their abilities than their male counterparts, and therefore did not champion themselves in the same way during progression discussions, or when putting themselves forwards for new opportunities.

Armed with this understanding, we must now rise to the challenge of unwriting this perception for our female ThoughtWorkers. Our 2019 planning has begun, and we are making intentional decisions about how we have review conversations with our female talent, how we can create coaching opportunities to develop our female leaders and support their career progression and the way we source internal candidates for upcoming opportunities.

Developers at work

Striving to reduce the gender pay gap

Australia’s current gender pay gap for full-time employees is 14.6%. (WGEA data: August 2018.) Today, ThoughtWorks Australia’s full-time gender pay gap is 11.6 % and we continually strive to close it further.

As well as creating an equal foundation by addressing career progression (and the pay that accompanies that progression), we also use an equality lens across all stages of our pay review process, including:

1. Ensuring that the pay review committee consists of males and female representatives from the regional leadership team.

2. Undertaking a global gender remuneration review with representatives of the global leadership team including our CTO, Rebecca Parsons

3. Publishing the process and gender diversity statistics, including trends over time as part of each pay review cycle to ensure transparency of process and intent, and to demonstrate our commitment to driving towards pay equity.

4. Undertaking a detailed gender remuneration analysis to uncover and address potential issues with pay equity, including (but not limited to):

 
  • Analysis of males and females in the same or similar roles
  • Analysis of males and females working in the same grade (experience/skill level)
  • Overall analysis to identify if there are specific roles/grades/levels of skill where males are clustered at the top of a pay band.

Creating pay equity and support for returning parents

Examining our pay equity also shone a light on parental leave, both in terms of financial impact and support for returning parents. We believe that becoming a mother (or primary carer) should not have a negative impact on your salary, or your career.

Historically, women who have taken parental leave in order to care for their child have found themselves at a financial disadvantage when they reach retirement age. Contributions to superannuation are not generally made during the unpaid portion of parental leave, impacting the ability to create an adequate financial income for the future. Last year, ThoughtWorks addressed this imbalance by continuing to pay regular superannuation contributions for the first six months of unpaid parental leave.

We also aim to ensure that women are not financially disadvantaged by taking parental leave, by continuing to include them in pay reviews during their leave, and by conducting a peer review upon their return to verify that they have not fallen short in terms of pay.

Salary aside, we understand that returning to work can be daunting, especially in the tech industry where the constant pace of change can leave people feeling overwhelmed, or left behind. We have implemented a number of support mechanisms, that our returning parents say really helped their transition back into the workplace.

We believe that connection is important, so to keep the lines of communication open throughout parental leave, we encourage our mums and dads to keep hold of their laptops, in case they want to dip in and out of what has been happening in ThoughtWorks. (Some do, some don’t, and either is fine - but we want to put the choice in their hands.)

Those on leave are still invited to our annual ‘Team Hug,’ a company-wide weekend away, where we share learnings and ideas, and join together as a community. We’ve had some of their little ones join our recent event so that mum or dad can still be part of the fun.

Lastly, we’ve worked closely with some of our clients, to create team structures that support part-time work on client site. A recent example includes two returning mothers sharing a single role on a project, across different working days, which proved to be a successful arrangement for both them and the client.

Diversity in Leadership: The next step

Building a diverse workforce requires a representative leadership team. Who you promote into positions of power says a lot about your commitment to diversity.

We’ve already spoken about the importance of bringing unique perspectives to the table, but it’s even more than that. It is our responsibility to provide strong, smart and capable role-models of every gender for our next generation of leaders.

That’s why we created WiLD - our global Women in Leadership Development initiative. Founded in 2012, we wanted to increase the impact that our women leaders were having, not only on ThoughtWorks but the broader community. This self-sustaining, pay it forward program has been attended by more than 52 ThoughtWork’s women in the Asia Pacific region in the last 12 months alone.

Women in Leadership

While we celebrate all that we have achieved so far, we want to keep moving. We want to be proud of our diversity at every level within our organisation. That’s why our next commitment is a focus on our leadership cohort. We are aiming to increase the number of female consultants at Lead and Principal level from approximately 20% currently to 30% by 2020.

We recognise that this requires more than just initiatives and programs, though these have their place too. It’s the continuing shift in mindset and behaviours that are needed to drive change. Diversity is a journey, not a destination, and ours has just begun.

Ready to shape the future of tech?

Join our team of passionate and bright technologists.

Join us
Weitere Blogposts
Diversity und Inclusion

In support of Stonewall's position on the Gender Recognition Act

Stephen Foreshew-Cain
Mehr hier
Karriere Hacks

Let's Erase the Gender Pay Gap

Lindy Stephens
Mehr hier
Karriere Hacks

Gender: Why Are You Asking About It?

Dr J Harrison
Mehr hier
  • Unsere Services
  • Unsere Kunden
  • Insights
  • Karriere
  • Über uns
  • Kontakt

WeChat

×
QR code to ThoughtWorks China WeChat subscription account

Presseanfragen | Datenschutz | Impressum | Modern Slavery statement ThoughtWorks| Barrierefreies Webdesign | © 2021 ThoughtWorks, Inc.