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by The St. Louis American Staff
World Wide Technology (WWT), a $14.5 billion global technology solution provider, announced that its commitment to diversity and inclusion has been recognized with the top score in the 2022 Disability Equality Index® (DEI). The DEI is the world's most comprehensive benchmarking tool for the Fortune 1000 and Am Law 2001 to measure disability workplace inclusion against competitors, launched by Disability: IN and The American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD).
This year's assessment measured culture & leadership; enterprise-wide access; employment practices (benefits, recruitment, employment, education, retention & advancement, accommodations); community engagement; supplier diversity; non-U.S. operations (non-weighted), along with including new non-weighted leadership questions about including disability in corporate board diversity criteria.
In 2022, WWT joined 415 corporations, including 69 Fortune 100, 188 Fortune 500, and 227 Fortune 1000 who utilized the DEI to benchmark their disability inclusion efforts.