Women Leadership Roles in the World of Work

Happy New Year! It is a great pleasure for us to share with you the first issue of our More than Work newsletter for 2024.

We wanted to start the year by focusing on some of the great articles our team has written about the importance of women in leadership roles and what programmes Gi Group Holding Brand Ambassadors are active in and support in our different offices around the world.

In this issue we explore everything from new opportunities for women in the automotive, IT and manufacturing sectors on to efforts to build a more supportive regulatory framework that promotes gender equity between women and men in the workplace and in top leadership roles.

?Activity Update: What’s going on in Gi Group Holding

2024 IT Global HR Trends Report

In December 2023, we launched our IT Global HR Trends Report , the latest research endeavour from Gi Group Holding with data and insights to guide you through the challenges and opportunities in the IT sector.

Despite the mass tech layoffs in 2023, the search for IT talent goes on, with smaller businesses and non-tech sectors maintaining strong demand for tech talent. For companies and HR professionals, navigating the changing tides requires a thorough understanding of current and upcoming trends.

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Download the report .

Gi Group Holding acquires Kelly's European Staffing Business

We are happy to announce the successful completion of the strategic acquisition of?Kelly 's European Staffing Business. This move marks a very significant step in our expansion across Europe, allowing us to enter new markets in Belgium, Luxembourg, and Norway, but also strengthen our presence in existing ones such as France, Portugal and Switzerland.

This acquisition expands our services and enhances our capabilities in key areas such as Life Sciences, white-collar temporary work, and RPO services, to further grow our HR ecosystem.

Read more about this here .

Gi Group Holding supports 511 Racing Team

Gi Group Holding is incredibly proud to be a supporter of, and to have contributed to, the success of the 511 Racing Team . This is an all women-led team that is making history in the world of motor sports.

Our company believes that empowering talent, breaking barriers, and embracing diversity is of critical importance in the workplace. We feel that our partnership with the 511 Racing Team is a testament to that commitment.

Through our company resources, mentorship services and belief in diversity and inclusion, we are happy to back this group of talented, determined women who challenge, on a daily basis, the status quo in the male-dominated world of motor sports. Here’s to continued wins on the racetrack and to more shattered glass ceilings for the 511 Racing Team and for women racers everywhere.

Read more here .

Antonio Bonardo elected Vice-President of World Employment Confederation (WEC) - Europe

Antonio Bonardo , our Chief Public Affairs Officer at Gi Group Holding , has been elected as the Vice-President of the World Employment Confederation - Europe . This organisation is the voice of the private employment services industry at the European level, representing national federations as well as large international workforce solutions companies from across the continent.

Antonio's election demonstrates Gi Group Holding's continued commitment to playing a leadership role on the global stage when it comes to shaping the future of employment and work. His expertise and vision will contribute to putting in place policies and initiatives that deliver a positive impact on businesses and professionals as concerns the employment landscape.

All of us at Gi Group Holding join Antonio Bonardo in celebrating this momentous achievement.

Gi Group Holding receives Best Supplier Award from Grupo Gest?o RH

The Gi Group Holding team in Brazil recently received the Best HR Suppliers for 2023 award in the Permanent and Temporary Worker category from Grupo Gest?o RH .

This national honour recognises the 15 years of hard work that our team in Brazil has engaged in to support our clients in that country. The Gi Group Holding Brazil team, and our global Gi Group Holding leadership, appreciates this award as proof that we are doing well in our mission to change people’s lives through job placement and supporting a sustainable global work environment.

Leadership Insights - What’s New in the World of Work

Women leaders in automotive? Yes!

There are so many misconceptions about career opportunities for women in the automotive sector. Following Gi Group Holding’s participation in the Women Automotive Network Summit in Stuttgart, Germany this year and the publication of our 2024 Global Automotive HR Trends report at the end of October, it became clear that more messaging and communications need to focus on why women are needed and can thrive in the industry.

So far, discussions of future roles for young women in the sector haven’t really taken place, and there is also seemingly limited access to STEM courses and specialised training that would prepare them for industry roles. Currently, we have backward trends where young women’s interest in learning tech skills and other STEM disciplines is falling.

Read more insights here from Domiziano Pontone on how our daughters, sisters and mothers can change and lead a future-facing automotive sector.

Logistics businesses need more women to support future growth

In reporting shared at the start of this year, the Gi Group Holding team noted that there was massive underrepresentation of women in the Logistics sector. In Europe, countries like Germany and Poland reported that under one-quarter of new roles filled went to women. Outside of Europe this figure falls even further to 9% in Brazil and below 1% in China, per International Labour Organization (ILO) data.

Meanwhile, the main barrier to more women seeking roles in the sector appears to involve misconceptions about what industry careers involve. CLO-INTWIG research describes a typical logistics worker as "a 36-year-old male with a lower level of education". Meanwhile, there are many new career paths that women could excel in related to use of technologies, process management and operations, and even product/system design and marketing.

Read more insights here from Tiziano Rodolfo Roseto on the importance of diversity in the logistics.

Can an image makeover bring more women to the Manufacturing Sector?

A study by Gi Group Holding published in early 2023 pointed out that women remain underrepresented in the manufacturing industry. According to statistics from the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the World Manufacturing Foundation, women comprise only 30% of all employees in the sector. Of this group, 33% work in junior-level roles, 24% as mid-level staff, 15% at senior level, and only 9% serve in industry CEO roles worldwide.

Per our report, key barriers to recruiting more women for roles in the manufacturing industry derive mainly from long-standing stereotypes. Fortunately, Gi Group Holding data shows that 83% of manufacturing businesses plan to hire more women in the next five years and 39% believe that this will happen due to a more open mindset when it comes to recruiting female employees. 35% say women hires will be boosted by investment into and the incentivising of women’s access to education in STEM disciplines.

Read more on this in an insightful article by Daniele Merlerati .

Time for a reboot: finding new ways to close the gender gap

Lots of interesting analytical material on the gender gap and women’s career development has come through the pipeline this year, with the annual Gender Gap Report published by the World Economic Forum , recommendations from the United Nations ' Regional Cooperation Council, 麦肯锡 ’s Women in the Workplace report and more.

However, most of these texts show that efforts to close the gender gap in terms of access to equal pay, career development opportunities, and promotion to senior leadership roles has slowed considerably. New initiatives must be put in place to change the current status quo (and its stagnation) such as peer-to-peer support among women and investment in educational and communication programmes that demonstrate how businesses benefit from gender diversity and other forms of diversity in management and leadership teams at all levels.

Read more on this in the article from Antonio Bonardo here .

Conclusions ...

We hope you enjoyed this first issue of our newsletter for 2024. We thank you for subscribing to it, as well as for your continued interest in what’s going on at Gi Group Holding . We would never have imagined we would reach 40,000 subscribers in just 4 months. But we have and we are glad that so many of you follow what we’re doing and react to our updates.

?Happy New Year and all the best to you in 2024. ?