ZAGREB, March 25, 2019 – Finns and Croats are the most surrounded by diversity in workplace, and Croats most often work with the elderly and mothers of small children, a little less with foreigners and minority and ethnic groups, and the least with disabled persons and LGBT persons, the MojPosao job-seeking website says.
Four in ten employees in Europe do not experience diversity in the workplace, according to an international study on diversity conducted by Paylab in nine European countries in 2018.
The goal of the study was to determine the extent to which employees in work teams come into contact with employees who are often at a disadvantage on the job market, such as foreigners, members of minority and ethnic groups, persons with physical disabilities, mothers of small children, employees over the age of 55, and persons with a different sexual orientation/identity.
The study shows the lowest level of workplace diversity is in Hungary, where up to 49% of employees reported no contact with the groups monitored in the survey, followed by Slovenia (44%), Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania and Bulgaria (about 40%) and Finland (35%).
Workers in Croatia have the most experience with diversity as only 29% of respondents have never encountered the groups monitored.
The study shows that more than 50% of respondents in Croatia have worked with people over 55 and 49% with mothers of children under 10. One in four respondents has worked with foreigners and members of minority and ethnic groups, 17% with persons with physical disabilities, and 15% with LGBT persons.
Asked if they are bothered by the presence of the groups monitored in their workplace, a majority of respondents said they were not, with Croats most open to working with disabled persons (29%).
Croats show the highest intolerance towards the LGBT community, with 18% saying they would be glad to interact with them in the workplace, while 2% said they would be very upset. About 1% would be upset at working with the groups monitored. Twenty-nine percent of Croats accept foreign co-workers.
Finns are the most open to working with LGBT persons, with 28% saying they would be glad to work with them, while 31% accept foreigner co-workers.
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