What is your company actively doing to reset or rethink its corporate culture?

My company has always been very progressive thinking, despite our team’s lack of diversity. We routinely do pro-bono work for progressive nonprofits, and during the recent BLM protests, the company donated a large chunk of money to local organizations that support that work.

It’s one of the main reasons I love this job.

The black lives matters protests precipitated an emotional round of introspection at my partner's regional branch of a national non-profit, but I am not sure whether the consciousness that aroused has the potential to effect any internal structures. As far as I can tell their organization is a core of charismatic but difficult-to-corral leaders attended to by a large cloud of staffs with clearly defined report structures but only vague means to direct the implementation of new ideas or policies. Discussion of that status quo seems to go nowhere, ever.

I was trained by HR to be "qualified" to attend recruiting events and take resumes. I was told to, privately, write my best guess for race/ethnicity on the back of the application.

So I guess we're going for diversity? We're also doing our best to bring everyone back into the office as soon as we're no longer being told to work from home if possible. Despite business continuing to work just fine with WFH.

I'm in a male dominated industry, and my company has started to employ more women during the last year(ish). We went from 0 out of 35ish (well, a few in PR and HR, but not the core business) to 4 now. Additionally, two of the three interview candidates I have seen lately have been women.

Admittedly, I have no idea if this is a change in culture, a coincidence, orif we're just getting more female applicants (maybe the nearby college where we get a few of our new hires from did something a few years back and they have more women graduating in the space now)

We also got bought by a larger company at the beginning of this year, so this could have something to do with it (we're still pretty much independent from them though, our business is doing good and they were mostly interested in our expertise), but I honestly can't tell you the reasons

Honestly? Not a ton. Most of the things my company did were very specifically about the protests and/or the trauma of what was going on, or about racism in our industry as a whole. Lots of company-organized meetings for different marginalized groups to be vulnerable and share how they are doing in a safe space surrounded by other members of their community, some panels and group meetings for other groups (mostly white people) to discuss how to be a better ally during the protests and when many of our Black colleges were struggling and how to help them (the CEO of my company was randomly assigned to be. in the same group as me and it was really clear he was taking it very seriously and the protests had opened his eyes to things he hadn't seen before and he was genuinely ashamed of the fact that he had been blind for so long), panels about racism in the travel industry, and general statements of "ED&I are discussing next steps for the company as a whole and as things happen we'll let you know". I think that's mostly because starting back in like 2015 or so my company aggressively hired a large and very diverse ED&I team and have actually been listening to the input the people on that team have been saying for a number of years. We have panels and brown bags very regularly about things like "the experience of being x identity in tech" or like workshops to help people get experience that they might otherwise not have. I think we also donated a ton of money to various groups, our volunteer and dontation portal did a month-long 1-1 match of any donation to an approved charity by an employee, our site had messages and a focus on how to support black business and had resources to learn about systemic racism. I think the most important thing that my company has said (in my opinion) is that they don't look at those awards and think the work is done, but acknowledge that there is always more we can be doing to be the best work environment and that the org is continuing to make changes to be better. It is a bit funny but at the start of 2020 we changed our company motto to "There's Good Out There, Let's Go See It", and our internal motto to "Be and Build the Good You Want To See In The World". Mostly, we've just been trying to live up to those.