Sizewell C boss: Get your workforce to mirror society
In this instalment of our weekly video series, My Business Leader Secret, we talk to Julia Pyke, the joint managing director of the Sizewell C nuclear plant.
The business secret that Pyke wants to share is that it is important to create a diverse workforce and you can do this without using formal quotas. Pyke believes that a modern workforce should reflect the society it serves.
“If you’re going to do something which is quite significant for society and in the very long term,” says Pyke, “then you want a workforce which has the right mix of ages.
“So you need young people for succession and you ideally need a balance of men and women, which is roughly similar to the balance in society. And you preferably need an ethnic mix which is roughly similar to the balance in society.
“We’re intending to make work somewhere which is inclusive and where people want to come to work, and they want to do their best job.”
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