Initiatives & programmes

Inclusion & Diversity at PwC NL 

We structure our I&D initiatives around three pillars: strategy, culture, and systems and processes. This enables us to support organisational development in line with our I&D ambitions.

Inclusive Employee Benefits

• Multi-parent family leave: Extending leave regulations to accommodate all employees who are part of multi-parent families, ensuring support for various family forms.
• Special birth leave: Up to four times the weekly working hours in paid leave for employees welcoming a newborn into their family within six weeks of birth, with full care responsibilities. The leave can be taken within the first 26 weeks.
• Adoption and foster care leave: Up to six weeks of paid leave for employees adopting or fostering a child.
• Gender transition leave for trans people: Up to 24 weeks of paid leave over a ten-year period for absences related to gender transition, without the need to take sick leave.

Training

• Training for teams, such as Inclusive Dialogue sessions.

• Training focused on inclusion awareness and bias, such as our In My Shoes programme, which helps colleagues better understand other people’s perspectives.

• Development programmes specifically designed for diverse talent.

• A range of e-learning courses focused on developing inclusive skills, such as strengthening psychological safety and running inclusive meetings. 

• Support for new parents.

Coaching

• Agora cross-mentoring programme: we jointly organise an annual mentoring programme with the Agora Network in which participants learn about the different perspectives and backgrounds that everyone brings to work (read more about this collaboration here).
• Workplace Pride mentoring and coaching: this new reverse mentoring and coaching programme has been introduced together with Young@WorkplacePride. Mentees learn from mentors and vice versa with a particular focus on younger colleagues. The reason for this is that research shows that young people go back into the closet when they start working and cannot be themselves as a result (read more about this collaboration here).
• Talent to the Top cross-mentoring programme: the goal is to create learning relationships with mentors or mentees outside the organisation. Talented PwC  employees are paired to those in another organisation based on gender and/or cultural background. This cross-mentoring programme is an initiative of the Talent to the Top partnership (read more about this collaboration).