National Day for Staff Networks

Employee networks are wonderful.  They’re a safe space to start difficult conversations, to explore collective and individual perspectives and to shape the ask that helps businesses to grow - attracting and engaging from a wider and more diverse talent pool. 

They help to create a sense of inclusion and being part of an organisation that understands that it can do more – and seeks to do more – to enable people to have the best possible experience in the workplace.

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Road Safety Week 2022 raises awareness of risks for teenage drivers

Parents of young people are being warned that their children are more at risk from death or injury in road crashes than from drinking alcohol, taking drugs or violent crime as part of Road Safety Week 2022. The warning comes from Sharron Huddleston, whose 18-year-old daughter Caitlin was killed in 2017 in a traffic collision.

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Whistle-stop tour of influential women in the world of transport

Driving for Better Business is halfway through a year of videos, podcasts and features, launched to mark International Women’s Day (8 March). This initiative is raising awareness of the thousands of women who work in the transport sector, from CEOs of large multinational corporates, national and local government officials, directors of influential safety charities, freelancers, apprentices and everything between. Transport – like all areas of life – benefits from a diverse range of influences to best serve everyone.

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Bridging the Gender Gap in Micro-Mobility: Voi joins Women in Transport

Voi Technology is proud to be the first micro-mobility operator to join Women in Transport, to make the transport sector a better industry through diversity, gender parity, and inclusion. According to data from the EU, only 22% of transport workers are women, and we want to encourage women to leave their mark on what continues to be a male-dominated field.

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Personal Pronouns in the Workplace: A Beginners Guide

Wednesday 21 October 2020 is International Pronouns Day. It seeks to make respecting, sharing, and educating about personal pronouns commonplace. Referring to people by the pronouns they determine for themselves is basic to human dignity. Being referred to by the wrong pronouns particularly affects transgender and gender nonconforming people.

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Alien in the room

With women significantly underrepresented in the transport workforce, there are often situations where we are the ‘alien in the room’. Even if this hasn’t been your personal experience, I hope that reading Charlie’s latest blog will provide some insight into how it feels to be the minority in a room and offers a moment of reflection on how we can all be more inclusive.

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