We support our commitment to diversity and inclusion with a range of programmes that provide opportunities for all employees to grow, develop and contribute to our success. We use a combination of professional development initiatives, training, experiential learning and inclusion networks to help employees advance their professional skills. We work to equip employees to understand and address our changing markets, our emerging client needs, our transforming businesses and our evolving communities.
Gender
Throughout the year, we celebrate women and their accomplishments in serving clients, creating value and innovating in our markets.
We’ve seen the power of women at work in our business. Women leaders have had responsibility for over 25 percent of our annual revenue since the 1990s, and by 2018 that figure was 40 percent.
Pitney Bowes Women’s Inclusion Network (PBWIN)
- Supports the inclusion and development of women to further the company’s business success.
- Open to all employees committed to supporting women’s growth and using their expertise to deliver more value in our markets.
- Offers global webinars and discussions on topics such as leadership development, work-life integration and embracing change.
- Additional site-specific offerings tailored to business, function or geographic region.
Catalyst
Catalyst is a global nonprofit organization with a mission to accelerate progress for women through workplace inclusion. Every Pitney Bowes CEO since the 1990s has been a member of the Catalyst Board of Directors. Pitney Bowes CEO Marc Lautenbach joined the Board in 2014. In 2017, he joined Catalyst Women on Board, an initiative that promotes the appointment of women to corporate boards, and Catalyst CEO Champions For Change, which brings together more than 40 high-profile CEOs and industry leaders committed to diversity, inclusion and gender equity in the workplace.
Our gender equity efforts have also repeatedly been recognized by U.S. organizations, including the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council’s “America’s Top Corporations for Women’s Business,” DiversityInc’s “Top 50 Companies for Diversity,” The Catalyst Award for innovations for women in the workplace, “Best Companies for Working Women” and “Top 25 Public Companies for Executive Women.” We partner with organizations such as Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) and Grace Hopper Celebration of Women to support the professional development and advancement of women.
Generation
The Pitney Bowes Young Professionals (PB-YP) is a community for early-in-career employees and their advocates. The group meets regularly to learn more about our business, develop professional skills, participate in community service projects and network. In turn, the company leverages their insights and perspectives to fuel innovation, enhance client experience and resolve business issues.
Each summer we welcome a select group of undergraduate and graduate students from universities all over the world to internships at Pitney Bowes locations across the United States and United Kingdom. Our PB-YP network ‘friends’ our interns to help them gain additional insights and connect with other young professionals through community service and social activities. A key partner in our effort to identify and develop these interns is INROADS Inc., whose mission is to find talented, underserved young people and prepare them for corporate and community leadership. During our more than 30-year partnership with INROADS, many of our interns have gone on to become valued employees across a range of disciplines.
A highlight each summer is the Pitney Bowes Next Generation Conference (NextGen), where interns and young professionals have a chance to interact with our senior leadership team while learning about global commerce, our changing business and their professional development.
Geography
We are a global company of more than 13,000 employees serving clients and markets in over 100 countries. We believe strongly that our ability to understand and respect cultural differences across geographies makes us more responsive to our clients and each other and helps us to achieve our common goals.
Delivering value to clients and employees around the world requires interacting with them in alignment with local business practices, cultures and language. Our Global User Experience team helps us do this. We host Globalisation Summits in different geographical areas. These events are great opportunities to share best practices and educate internal stakeholders about the importance of building products and communication strategies with a global audience in mind. Our Design System provides design and code guidance to help ensure great experiences for clients, wherever they may be.
People of Color
We believe there is one race – the human race – and multiple ethnicities. We are proud that in the 1940s, our company first voiced and demonstrated its commitment to diversity and inclusion, when CEO Walter Wheeler directed personnel to make sure that our policies did not prevent hiring without regard to race, gender or religion. At the same time, he sought to include more people of colour in our workforce to reflect the demographics of the neighbourhoods in which we operated. By the mid-1940s people of colour had assumed a variety of roles within the company – including our first office worker of colour, an African-American woman hired in 1946. Today, people of colour comprise 47% of our company’s US work force and 19% of our senior management. We celebrate ethnicity throughout the year through observances such as Black History Month and Hispanic Heritage Month in the US.
We partner with regional and national organisations such as the National Urban League, NAACP and InRoads to support the diversity of our talent pipeline and the development and advancement of our professionals of colour.
Veterans
Military service requires purpose, commitment and collaboration in We sponsor a number of events recognising veterans and veteran business owners. In addition to showing our support for veterans, these events also serve as a way for us to source talent for our workforce and veteran-owned businesses for our supplier network. Our Careers at PB site offers a military skills translator to help veterans identify opportunities at Pitney Bowes.
We also celebrate veterans internally with a video Hall of Honour and profiles of veterans who have added their talents and skills to the Pitney Bowes team.
People with disabilities
We recognise the value of having employees with different abilities within our workforce and offer numerous supporting programmes. One example is our collaboration with the Virginia Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services to attract and develop new employees in the Richmond, Virginia area. Another is our partnership with the Independent Living Resource Center (ILRC) in Florida through their Job Shadowing Program. We also celebrate National Disability Employment Awareness Month with feature stories about individuals with disabilities who are an important part of our team.
