{"id":20178,"date":"2020-11-10T15:15:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T20:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/sun-life-launching-digital-workplace-diversity-inclusion-platform-152331"},"modified":"2020-11-10T15:15:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T20:15:28","slug":"sun-life-launching-digital-workplace-diversity-inclusion-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2020\/11\/10\/sun-life-launching-digital-workplace-diversity-inclusion-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun Life launching digital workplace diversity, inclusion platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"316\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/SunLife-Shutterstock.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt title=\"Sun Life launching digital workplace diversity, inclusion platform\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>Staff <\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;November 10, 2020 <\/p>\n<p>Sun Life Financial is introducing a digital program to advance workplace diversity, inclusion and equity among its global workforce.<\/p>\n<p>The peer learning program,&nbsp;by Hive Learning Ltd., is&nbsp;designed to help employees own, accelerate and embed change, increasing the pace at which inclusion becomes a habit, according to a press release.<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-sm-10 col-sm-offset-1\">\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/benefits\/health-benefits\/how-to-use-benefits-to-support-diversity-and-inclusion-119365\">How to use benefits to support diversity and inclusion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Sun Life, we are all committed to do our part to end systemic racism, intolerance and inequities,\u201d said Helena Pagano, executive vice-president, chief human resources and communications officer at Sun Life, in&nbsp;the release. \u201cIntegrating learning and development is critical to achieving our goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 18 months,&nbsp;the insurer piloted the program with 1,500 employees in&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-location\">North America<\/span>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-location\">Asia<\/span>. At the end of the pilot, it found&nbsp;96 per cent said they believe the program will drive positive change at Sun Life; 94 per cent said they feel confident demonstrating inclusive behaviours at work;&nbsp;92 per cent said they found the overall learning experience engaging and valuable; and 88 per cent said they\u2019re committed to taking action on what they learned.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/sun-life-launching-digital-workplace-diversity-inclusion-platform-152331\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff &nbsp;|&nbsp;November 10, 2020 Sun Life Financial is introducing a digital program to advance workplace diversity, inclusion and equity among its global workforce. The peer learning program,&nbsp;by Hive Learning Ltd., is&nbsp;designed to help employees&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}