We actively strive to make our company a place where team members:
- Are welcomed, respected, supported, and asked to participate and to lead.
- Are able to share knowledge, skills, connections, and opportunities that other team members may have not been given or have access to.
- Feel safe and valued no matter their race, ethnicity, immigration or citizenship status, the language(s) they speak or don't, their class, gender, sexuality, or ability.
- Are valued no matter their position, time in the company, or previous experience.
We actively strive to make our company a place where we:
- Pay a living wage.
- Value the lives of employees outside of work and respect boundaries and time away from work.
- Are transparent and honest with employees about the business and decisions that we make.
- Continuously recognize the ways in which white supremacist values are embedded into work culture, and within the culture outside of work, and actively work to dismantle those values in our space and further decolonize our workplace.
- To provide regular anti-racist education by DEI professionals for ourselves and our team.
- To enact company policies that allow for all employees to avoid any kind of mental distress such as microaggressions, harassment, or any form of discomfort, and to address complaints of any kind with people who have the skills to address these issues.
- Demonstrate the value of mental health through company policies that allow for work to happen only during work hours and for all employees to avoid any kind of mental distress via customer service. Our company will strive to be a safe space where people treat each other with respect. No employee will be required to address aggressive behavior from any customer or potential customer.
- Seek diverse perspectives, cultures, and abilities and actively hire BIPOC and people with different abilities.
- Work towards equity by providing the resources and tools needed to have an equitable workplace over an equal workplace, where everyone has what they need to thrive.
- Create an inclusive environment that ensures people with different identities are able to lead and succeed in self determined and genuine ways.
- Promote growth and professional development.
- Build community with other small businesses that share these values, especially BIPOC owned businesses in order to provide support, share information, and create more equity in shared business knowledge.
