与Jacobs ACE员工网络一起庆祝残疾人骄傲月

At Jacobs, we want people to feel included, that they belong, 他们可以成为什么样的人，我们可以共同取得什么样的成就，这是没有限制的.

July is Disability Pride Month, a month-long celebration honoring diversity and difference among the disabled community and highlighting ways to better support colleagues in our workplaces. 7月是《首页》的周年纪念日, 具有里程碑意义的立法，打破了融入社会的障碍. 但仍然存在一些障碍，这就是为什么像这样的庆祝活动如此重要.

So, 虽然我们一直在倡导一个更具包容性的工作场所, industry and world, we’re taking a moment to celebrate several key milestones in our inclusion journey in honor of Disability Pride Month:

We again earned the top score in the 2023 Disability Equality Index (DEI), a national benchmarking tool on corporate policies and practices related to disability inclusion and workplace equality.  

"Another proud year for Jacobs, 庆祝我们在DEI中取得的第一名,Jacobs高级副总裁兼ACE联合执行发起人Tom Meinhart说. "But we don’t stop there; we recognize there is still a lot to do on our disability inclusion journey across all regions, 我们的ACE网络领导和不断增长的会员对塑造我们的文化至关重要.”

在增长方面，ACE员工网络最近在全球拥有2,675名成员. ACE – which stands for Access. Connect. Empower – champions accessibility, 为残疾护理人员和雇员提供社区和机会. As one of our eight employee networks, ACE在培养我们的包容性文化和倡导残疾包容方面发挥着关键作用. The network provides information, resources and networking, runs awareness events and advocates for positive change. 公司里的任何人都可以加入ACE，成为更好的盟友，并学到更多.

“Seeing the awareness of promotion and positivity of neurodiversity across Jacobs thanks to the ACE employee network gave me the confidence of no longer fearing ‘being found out’ that I am neurodivergent,” shares Leigh Hulme他是我们团队的首席GIS顾问，也是ACE的成员之一. “Neurodiversity in the workplace is something to be proud of and the ACE employee network at Jacobs gave me the confidence to let dyslexia be my superpower, rather than my weakness.”

“There are loads of things I like about ACE, such as the sunflower lanyards, dyslexic email signature, the internal guidebook for colleagues, managers and neurodivergent employees, and most of all – giving me a platform and confidence to share my story with people outside of the network and a safe space to talk about issues,” he adds.

在欧洲，ACE在我们的BeyondZero团队的支持下，正在我们的办公室里推出向日葵挂牌. The sunflower lanyards are an increasingly popular campaign where people (or their caregivers) with a ‘hidden’ disability wear a sunflower lanyard or identification card to visually signal to others to be considerate and discourage automatic assumptions. Sunflower lanyards and a more discrete pin option are now available in our pilot offices: Birmingham, Dublin, Glasgow, Krakow, London and Manchester, with Australia planned for next month, 欧洲其他地区计划在2023年，其他地区也将紧随其后. And just in time for Disability Pride Month, a new digital sunflower sticker is now available for our team to use as a profile picture frame across Microsoft Teams, our intranet, LinkedIn and other channels where appropriate.

Additionally, ACE正在与我们的捐赠和志愿服务项目合作, Collectively℠ to offer a Disability Pride Month opportunity for our teammates to support organizations such as the National Disability Rights Network, American Association of People with Disabilities, The Arc, 残疾人权利教育和保护基金和世界残疾人研究所. ACE previously partnered with Collectively to sponsor an assistance dog through Assistance Dogs Australia.

雅各布斯成为促进接受的神经多样性研究所的创始成员, community and advocacy for those living with autism, 阅读障碍和其他不同的学习和思维方式-感谢ACE的成功倡导. The network also supports our membership in The Valuable 500, an organization that seeks to ensure disability inclusion is on business leadership agendas across the globe; and participation in PurpleSpace's Purple Light Up campaign, a global movement that celebrates and draws attention to the economic contributions of disabled employees around the world.

残疾人骄傲月提供了一个很好的机会来反思我们的进步, our leadership and employee networks like ACE, 我们将坚持不懈地继续倡导更好的可访问性, outcomes and opportunities for people with disabilities in line with our values and sustainable business objectives. For us, 包容是推动有意义的实际行动, 在我们的公司和我们所服务的社区都发生了可衡量的变化. 这意味着创造一种归属感的文化，让每个人都能茁壮成长——一种我们称之为 TogetherBeyond℠ and that’s integral to our Boldly Moving Forward strategy.