Dow’s Valuable 500 Commitment:
At Dow, our employees are the very source and catalyst for Dow’s innovation, value creation and sustainability. We are keenly focused on fostering an environment where every individual is included and contributing his or her personal best. People living with disabilities are a unique source of talent who can deliver substantial value to our company, our customers and our communities. They bring diversity of thought and valuable skillsets which contribute to our ability to operate as an innovative and sustainable organization.
Dow’s Disability Employee Network (DEN) Employee Resource Group focuses on improving perceptions about people with disabilities and raising awareness about the contributions they make – both at work and outside of work. In addition, DEN fosters the professional and personal success of people with disabilities through a variety of training resources, aimed at people with disabilities and leaders managing people with disabilities. DEN participants include employees with disabilities, parents of children with disabilities and other supporters of the DEN vision and is led by a senior level executive sponsor.
We are committed to:
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Recruiting and developing top talent, including individuals who happen to live with a disability
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Creating disability awareness and etiquette training to decrease stigma, establish foundational understanding and enhance employee accommodation process knowledge
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Centralizing the accommodations process oversight globally to enable consistent accessibility and productivity tool utilization tracking and to foster our culture of inclusion and a robust employee experience
