Recognition: For top-scoring companies, the DEI score builds brand recognition among potential and current employees, investors, and customers – including those with disabilities and their friends and families. Top-scoring companies are given the DEI “Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion ” logo, amongst many other benefits including, but not limited to:
Featured as a DEI Best Places to Work on the DEI website
Recognition in joint Disability:IN/AAPD national press release with other top-scoring companies
Individual company recognition via social media
May have a best practice(s) published in the DEI Annual Report or DEI Best Practices Report
Industry Data and Analysis: The DEI report and index informs companies of best and emerging practices and points them toward peers in the business community that are already high performers. All company participants, regardless of score, receive a complimentary copy of the annual DEI Report, which consists of detailed aggregate results and benchmarking information from the annual DEI.
Benchmarking Insight: Companies receive a scorecard outlining areas in which the company excels, as well as areas of improvement. 75% of companies take the DEI more than once for long-term benchmarking to ensure sustainable results.
Network Connections: Participating companies receive an invitation to the exclusive “DEI Top-Scoring Companies” reception at the Disability:IN Annual Conference. In addition, at the Disability:IN Annual Conference there are breakout sessions where companies, in similar and varied industries, share best practices for leveraging the DEI for company success.
Customized DEI Consulting Services: Participating companies are offered customized DEI consulting services specifically geared towards increasing their DEI score. This is especially useful for companies that score below 80 and want to become a top-scoring company, a company that is striving for 100 score, as well as companies that want to maintain their score as the index continually evolves.