Gender demographics

At Brooks, we focus on growing women leadership in our workplace through hiring practices and our leadership and career development programmes. We aim to create a healthy pipeline of gender-balanced talent to help lead Brooks.

Racial demographics

As a global company, we recognise the unique social construct of race in the USA. It is important that our US workforce reflects the diversity of the US population. To track our evolution in the USA, we measure ourselves against 2020 US Census demographic data estimates. At our headquarters in Seattle, Washington, we collect and analyse data of our workforce overall — along with racial diversity at each level of our organisation as we strive for racial equity among historically underrepresented groups.

Corporate Equality Index

We’ve made big strides in our commitment to equality and in evolving our organisation’s policies and practices to be equitable and inclusive. Our efforts in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) have been recognised by the national Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index (CEI). Our annual participation in the CEI — the nation’s premier benchmarking survey and report that measures lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) policies and practices in the workplace — is a way to keep ourselves accountable to our DEI goals and to track how we’re doing. The CEI score is mainly determined by three criteria: workforce protections, inclusive benefits, and supporting an inclusive culture and corporate social responsibility.

Pay equity

Brooks began incorporating pay equity analysis into our hiring, promotion and compensation processes in 2018. During offers and our annual compensation reviews, we analyse pay equity across employees in similar roles within our organisation.

Inclusive culture

Brooks is committed to maintaining a workplace culture where everyone feels a sense of belonging and each person’s uniqueness is valued. We contribute to this through our various employee programmes, including Mentorship, Leader-Led Training, Connect Manager Training, Unconscious Bias Training, New Employee Orientation, Brooks Buddy, the DEI Speaker Series, Book Club, Employee Awards, and Employee Resource Groups. On an annual basis, Brooks conducts an employee Cultural Strengths Survey to assess our culture. One area of focus within the assessment is “inclusive environment”, which is rated on a 5-point scale. We also do an overall review of our organisation’s annual inclusion scores by demographic cohort to ensure there are no significant disparities between dominant and historically underrepresented groups.