Diversity at WSP New Zealand

The company has employee resource groups to help drive progress in five key focus areas: māori & pasifika, rainbow community, gender equality, neurodiversity and physical accessibility.

Can't comment too much on this, but it is regularly mentioned.

Very diverse and inclusive

It seems pretty diverse to me. I would say wsp has a larger number of women than most companies. There are also lots of initiatives that celebrate culture, religion and preferences.

Does not seem to be any issues in diversity and inclusion

Very fair and great diversity initiatives

In contract to get maternity/paternity leave. Flexible working hours available

Generally very good

Good on all of these. No complaints. Generally, a very diverse company who is welcoming of all cultures and sexualities.

It seems like the company is putting a real effort into diversity and inclusion. There are multiple groups within the company that focus on different areas of this and it seems to be paying off. It's generally a safe space for everyone in my experience

I was impressed with the diversity of wsp in all of the categories mentioned in the question.

They got strong parental leave policies, and have committees and events for lbgtqia+ communities and for things such as women in engineering day

Company has a diversity and equity committee. Committed to reviewing gender pay gaps regularly.

Wide variety of people

I don't see a lot of pasifika staff around the office.

We have employee resource groups for lgbtqia+, māori and pacifica, women, accessibility and neurodiversity, who organise webinars, events, and are leaders in our company for change. I can't really speak to recruitment, retention, promotion, child care, maternity leave, etc. As it has not directly impact me yet.

I have nothing negative to say on this at all. Wsp maintains integrity to be as diverse and inclusive as possible. They are also good at taking feedback from people who might not feel as heard as the company thinks, e.g. hard of hearing people. I'm not sure if anything has been implemented on this however.

My team has many women.

Has a women at wsp teams channel for minority networking. promotes internal minority group clubs on online internal intranet

Our workplace is relatively diverse. I feel there are still steps to take towards being more conscious/inclusive of maori culture.

WSP is involved with lots of initiatives at university and school level to try and encourage more young people into science and engineering.

They are partnered with SPIES (Auckland University club) to provide more opportunities for Maori/Pacific students

Wide range of advertisement

Recruitment comes from all angles. The cadetship program has been gaining popularity. It recruits and trains young people straight out of highschool or polytech to give them experience and a diploma at the same time

Sponsors interns from a range of backgrounds to work while studying.

There are scholarship programmes for highschool students who show career ambition and skill. All interns are paid, and the graduates pay levels are higher than market average.

WSP goes to university club days to attract applicants from all different backgrounds. They also offer scholarships - one of which I actually received while at university and it covered a significant portion of one semester of fees which was amazing.

Cadet program- Providing a job while simultaneously supporting education

Provides people with equal opportunities regardless of their backgrounds with the recruitment team searching the country for the best suited people for the role/team.

They provide scholarships for people with ethnic minority backgrounds. Additionally they run campaigns for being yourself at work, and stories on people in the workplace in the LBGTQA+ community to try allow us to bring our full selves to work.

They have special programs to attract people of less privileged background. I myself come from a decile 1 school with me being the first member of my family to attend university