Hiring

Imagine if companies hired the first person to apply for a job. No CV piles to trawl through, no background checks, no tortuous rounds of interviews. This is a new hiring strategy to increase diversity and inclusion. It gives a chance to those who would normally get screened out due to discrimination, bias or an unconventional past. In 2019, the New York social enterprise Greyston Bakery tried it in its North Carolina distribution centre, reducing staff turnover by 60%. In 2020, the Body Shop adopted the same approach for its distribution centres. This is innovation for an inclusive economy.

— Wayne Visser

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