Inclusion@Fastweb

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 Summit Award

For the third consecutive year, Fastweb has ranked among the TOP 10 brands actively engaged in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and has been awarded at the Diversity Brand Summit Award. This recognition was achieved through the creation of a series of podcasts and video podcasts aimed at promoting DE&I culture, raising awareness, and fostering dialogue on the topic.

Projects and initiatives

Podcasts that promote themes of inclusivity, encourage reflection, and foster dialogue

Chi si prende cura della cura?

Is a podcast that helps to understand the value of invisible care work, primarily carried out by women, but not exclusively. This work plays a fundamental role in economic production, influencing both the physical and emotional well-being of individuals, including in the workplace, and has a significant impact on our economy and society.
Curated by Marcella Corsi, Full Professor of Political Economy at Sapienza University of Rome. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Review of Sociology and coordinates Minerva, a research lab on diversity and gender inequalities at the Department of Statistical Sciences at Sapienza University of Rome.

The podcast is available on Spotify at this link and on other platforms as well.

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.

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

Professional development and training

Salary equity

Parenthood and care

Work-life balance

Preventing abuse and harassment

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.

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.