BT had clear diversity plans for their Non Openreach workforce for the year to 2024/25…….here’s an extract….
You can see that the plan is to increase the proportion of female staff. As at 31 March 2024 is was 35% Female, 65% Male.
The plan is to change this to 46% Female, 54% Male over the year.
(You will note that the “54%” figure has not been shown explicitly. I’ll cover this issue in a later post).
I’m writing this on 10 March 2025, which means they’ll have to have done most of it by now. But what would it entail?
To make the numbers easier, let’s round to thousands. As at 31 March 2024, we had three facts:
a) Total Staff 47,000
b) Female Staff – 16,000 (35% of 47)
c) Male Staff – 31,000 (65% of 47)
If a) doesn’t change, we can only hit the target by recruiting 5,000 women and losing (including retirements and voluntary exits) 5,000 men
If b) doesn’t change, we can only hit the target by losing 11,000 men.
If c) doesn’t change, we can only hit the target by recruiting 10,000 women
In any case, that involves changing the lives of 10,000 people! About 20% of the workforce.
Do you believe that’s going to happen?