Inclusion
@Fastweb
Fastweb aims to be a safe, inclusive place
where people can proudly express their uniqueness.
We believe that diversity drives evolution: it is when our differences meet that new value is created.
This is the culture we are spreading and now, as society is also increasingly attentive to these issues, we are committed to even more ambitious objectives, stepping up our sustainability initiatives in various areas: from disability to support for caregivers, from gender equality to the development of women's STEM skills, with a particular focus of internal awareness of Diversity & Inclusion issues.
While diversity is a fact of life at the company,
inclusion is a specific organizational choice.
Diversity Brand Index 2024
Commitment to and support for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives awards Fastweb again among the top 10 according to the Diversity Brand Index 2024.
Fastweb was selected for its contribution to
Sistech's
PATHWAY, dedicated to the empowerment and career guidance of refugee women who wish to retrain in the Italian tech and digital world.
Fastweb for gender equality
Fastweb aims to ensure equal opportunities within the company in every aspect of its employees’ working life, creating the best conditions for them to express themselves to the full and make the most of their abilities, regardless of their gender or role. More specifically, Fastweb values gender balance and aims to overcome any stereotype, discrimination or prejudice through the introduction of a Gender Equality Management System defined according to the UNI/PdR 125:2022 Practice.
Gender Equality
In order to materialise the growth path for women, gender equity commitments have been defined in recruitment, in the areas for promotions to initial management and executive roles, and in access to top management roles.
This makes it possible to define specific objectives and, through continuous surveying, evaluation and monitoring, to obtain real and shareable feedback on the company's progress in terms of gender equality, with particular reference to the following areas:
Selection and recruitment
Fastweb is committed in its recruitment policies to fostering and valuing diversity, combating discrimination and prejudice and allowing itself to be guided in the selection and recruitment process by meritocratic criteria. Fastweb also ensures that people involved in recruiting processes receive adequate training on gender equality and the unconscious bias that can have a negative impact on the selection processes.
Professional development and training
Fastweb offers development plans without any gender discrimination by defining and sharing transparent, consistent and inclusive criteria in the performance management and talent development processes, with the aim of obtaining a gender balance in senior positions. Fastweb also provides equal access to training and development courses, including specific courses on leadership.
Salary equity
Fastweb is committed to pursuing a gender-neutral remuneration policy. A level playing field, non-discrimination, meritocracy and transparency are the principles that guide Fastweb's employee remuneration system.
Parenthood and care
Maternity and paternity support, as well as support for employees who act as family caregivers requiring constant care and assistance, is provided through a welfare system that is comprehensive and attentive to the specific needs of individuals.
Work-life balance
Fastweb has adopted flexible working tools to make the work-life balance easier for its employees. In particular, the
“working smarter” model is defined on the basis of individual responsibility and guarantees the right to switching off.
Preventing abuse and harassment
Fastweb condemns all types of violence, including sexual harassment, and ensures specific training on the issue at all levels.
Guidelines for events and conferences
Fastweb promotes initiatives in favour of female empowerment, encouraging women to become aware of their own possibilities by joining projects that put the focus on them.
In order to enhance equal opportunities, gender balance, different skills and non-discrimination in a wider context, Fastweb recommends the involvement of women in panels, as panelists or parts of the organising or scientific committee whenever it is defining the participation, sponsorship or organisation of an event. In this way, Fastweb intends to enhance any differences in favour of development and social inclusion.
Projects and initiatives
A selection of content from a Branded Content&Entertainment perspective
Futuri Diversi
A 4-part video podcast to reason about the Tomorrow’s 4G with 4 guests led by Luciana De Laurentiis and Giulio Xhaet:
- Genius. Max Temporelli talks about the genius of yesterday, today and tomorrow
- Genres. Flavia Brevi promotes conscious and inclusive language to break down discrimination
- Generations. Isabella Pierantoni makes people think about the differences in thinking between generations
- Generativity. Alberto Robiati helps us understand how to train the imagination
Futuri Diversi is available on all platforms.
Have a Nice Dei
Fastweb participated with the episode Generazione adesso in the podcast, which is available for free listening on Spotify and other platforms, and has won three awards:
- Gold in the Audio Category of the BC&E AWARDS
- Silver in the Social Sustainability Category
- Bronze in the Sustainability GRAND PRIX.
Fastweb and Debora Spini tell the story of March 8
On the occasion of March 8, International Women‘s Day, Fastweb asked Debora Spini, a university lecturer, political scientist and author of essays, to recount the true origins and importance of this anniversary through the podcast “March 8, what next?” to rediscover the ritual in a dimension of sociality that it is up to all of us to fill with meaning.
The “March 8, what next?” podcast is available on all streaming platforms and on Spotify at the following link
Non dire diversità: the Fastweb podcast with Daniele Dodaro
In the month of Pride, we collected the testimony of Daniele Dodaro, semiotician, Marketing strategist and founder of SQUADRATI, who talks about the importance of words, why we prefer "multiplicity" to "diversity," what is the difference between coming out and outing, and finally what it means to talk about PRIDE.
Listen here.
4 WEEKS 4 INCLUSION
Fastweb supports 4Weeks4Inclusion, the big marathon on inclusion issues in cooperation with associations, companies and universities, with the aim of continuing to promote coexistence between differences in the workplace and contribute to an increasingly inclusive future.
Words without Barriers
Why should we pay attention to the power of words? Because if a person is called something once, ten or a hundred times, then that becomes their social identity, regardless of whether they recognise it or not.
Having language which is broad enough so as not to offend anyone can be like an obstacle course. However, there are words that allow you to connect more quickly. Let's get to know them and switch them around.
To celebrate 4W4I, we organised the event 'Words Without Barriers' at Fastweb to reflect on the power of language together with our male and female colleagues, with the support of 2 experts, Antonio Giuseppe Malafarina, journalist, poet, founder of www.diwergo.it, director of Superando.it and Alessandro Lucchini, linguist, university lecturer, member of the Palestra della Scrittura.
It was a light-hearted event in a game show-style format. To find out how it went, check out the video.
Stabat Pater
To celebrate the 2022 edition of the event, Fastweb supported the Fightthestroke Foundation by staging the new art and social inclusion project by the Alma Rosé theatre company from Milan: 'Stabat Pater - A journey among fighting fathers' in the STEP FuturAbility District.
Through a journey interpreted by a father who is faced every day with the fragile existence of his son, the play aims to generate awareness for the audience about the world of people with disabilities and their caregivers, as well as to act as a spokesperson for the difficult stories of many fathers and parents in raising children.
Library Tutti
For the 2021 edition, Fastweb participated in the initiative with 'Library Tutti. Normal is in the eye of the beholder.’ During the event, we discussed in an ironic and light-hearted way about what really is 'normal’, starting with the images that tell the story about the world of work in order to remember how people with their differences are unique and equal.
Watch and download images of 'Library Tutti' here.
