Can't I tell a joke?

Will evosoft introduce the quota system tomorrow?

You go into the office. You’ve formed your team to breathe together in an opinion bubble. Your solution strategies work well and in a coordinated way. You're laughing at each other's jokes. Until a customer arrives: they are not on the same platform and do not think like you. It's as if you don't speak the same language. You avoid jokes in the first place. It is not safe that they will find it humorous.

Sure, you can agree with your teammates that the customer is dumb, but you've already lost a customer. It would’ve been good to have multiple approaches in your team, look at the customer's mindset from diverse angles and offer several possible solutions.

Inclusion, acceptance, and openness have been proven to boost a company's creative capital and, in turn, its profit. So, will evosoft introduce the quota system tomorrow? Do we aim to be appropriately and fashionably diverse or avoid losing competent people from a productive point of view? Will it be an advantage in the recruitment process if the new team member thinks differently from you? In what?

Imi Horváth interviewed Judit Radnai-Tóth, the representative of the non-profit organization We are Open, and evosoft Diversity Ambassador, Balázs Varga, about our survey results on the topic. They reviewed the picture the results show of our workplace culture and discussed the logical questions arising in this context.

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