Current:Home > InvestIntel named most faith-friendly company-LoTradeCoin
Intel named most faith-friendly company
View Date:2024-12-23 20:47:53
Intel Corporation is the most faith-friendly workplace in the country according to this year's ranking of large companies by the Religious Freedom and Business Foundation.
The Corporate Religious Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (REDI) Index uses ten measures to determine a company's ranking.
Among them:
- Is religion featured on the company's main diversity page?
- Does the company sponsor faith-based affiliations such as employee resource groups.
- Is religion clearly addressed in diversity training?
- Does the company match employee donations to religious charities.
The index found that 219 of the Fortune 500 companies refer to or illustration religion on their main diversity landing page. That's up from 202 in the previous year.
A significantly smaller number of Fortune 500 companies—just 43—publicly report having faith-oriented employee resource groups, or ERGs, up from 37 in 2022.
The full REDI Index report highlighted what specific company ERGs do to support religious diversity and inclusion.
For example, Ford Motor Corporation includes in its orientation process for all new employees information about the Ford Interfaith Network (FIN). The reports says, "They have eight faiths that make up the FIN." The report then details how each of those eight faith ERGs has its own dedicated budgets and internal resources such as mail groups and executive sponsors.
The report also says that Target Corporation's multiple faith network—Buddhist, Christian, Jewish and Muslim—play an important role in reinforcing the company's "culture of belonging."
One of the more unusual measures in the index is whether a company provides chaplaincy or other spiritual care services. The report draws special attention to Tyson Foods's chaplaincy program. "Tyson has 100 chaplains in a 22-year long program," says the report, "that is available to all U.S. team members 7/24/365."
In order to draw attention to religion ERGs, the Religious Freedom and Business Foundation also named the heads of those groups at Accenture, Equinix, Google, and American Airlines as "Leaders of the Year."
While the overall "most faith-friendly" designation went to Intel, the REDI index also breaks out companies by sector.
Ford Motor Company took the lead in the Automotive Industry. American landed number one in airlines. Target came in first in retail. The index ranks PayPal the most religion friendly financial services company.
The 2023 index is the Religious Freedom and Business Foundation's fourth annual measure of American corporations' DEI initiatives.
veryGood! (5193)
Related
- When is 'The Golden Bachelorette' finale? Date, time, where to watch Joan Vassos' big decision
- Some electric vehicle owners say no need for range anxiety
- Rain Is Triggering More Melting on the Greenland Ice Sheet — in Winter, Too
- 'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed' chronicles Nan Goldin's career of art and activism
- 2 weeks after Peanut the Squirrel's euthanasia, owner is seeking answers, justice
- Trump golf course criminal investigation is officially closed, Westchester D.A. says
- Florida high school athletes won't have to report their periods after emergency vote
- Florida high school athletes won't have to report their periods after emergency vote
- Surprise bids revive hope for offshore wind in Gulf of Mexico after feds cancel lease sale
- Priscilla Presley and Riley Keough Settle Dispute Over Lisa Marie Presley's Estate
Ranking
- 3 Iraqis tortured at Abu Ghraib win $42M judgement against defense contractor
- Hidden Viruses And How To Prevent The Next Pandemic
- Idaho Murder Case: Suspect Bryan Kohberger Indicted By Grand Jury
- ICN Expands Summer Journalism Institute for Teens
- The state that cleared the way for sports gambling now may ban ‘prop’ bets on college athletes
- With student loan forgiveness in limbo, here's how the GOP wants to fix college debt
- Wildfire smoke blankets upper Midwest, forecast to head east
- Is Your Skin Feeling Sandy? Smooth Things Over With These 12 Skincare Products
Recommendation
-
Atlanta man dies in shootout after police chase that also kills police dog
-
Maryland Climate Ruling a Setback for Oil and Gas Industry
-
Is Climate Change Urgent Enough to Justify a Crime? A Jury in Portland Was Asked to Decide
-
Home prices drop in some parts of U.S., but home-buying struggles continue
-
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson weighs in on report that he would 'pee in a bottle' on set
-
Inside Tori Spelling's 50th Birthday With Dean McDermott, Candy Spelling and More
-
Kid YouTube stars make sugary junk food look good — to millions of young viewers
-
These Texas DAs refused to prosecute abortion. Republican lawmakers want them stopped