Archives: 2016

LGBT Workplace Diversity Roundtable

In January BITCI held the first of the 2016 Members’ Roundtables. The focus of this event, hosted by Oracle EMEA, was LGBT Diversity in the Workplace. Speakers from Oracle, Accenture, Microsoft and Sodexo talked about their experiences from the diverse perspectives of senior sponsor, HR professional and LGBT Network Lead. The animated discussion that followed

Q1 Networking Meeting Identifying CSR priorities with your stakeholders

The Q1 Member Network Meetings was hosted by PwC in Dublin and held in Clayton Hotel Silver Springs, Tivoli, Cork. The meetings focused on identifying CSR priorities with stakeholders to help determine which material issues to focus on as part of a company’s CSR strategy. Please download a copy of the Network Meeting Repor t and click here to download the slides from the presentation.   This

CEO of Friends First Tom Browne on his experience with #Time2Read

Friends First has partnered with the school Scoil Cholmchille JNS since September 2014.Tom Browne, CEO, Friends First shares his take on the partnership: Benefit to the business: 10 members of our company are now closer to their colleagues who participated on the programme. From the time spent together on the programme there will be benefits back in

KPMG and their participation with Time to Read

“KPMG is delighted to engage in the Time to Read programme, being involved since its inception, we see the value in instilling a passion for reading with young students. This is one of our most popular CSR programmes, even though the commitment is significant, each year we have trouble just selecting 10 readers from the

Gain a real sense of community involvement with #Time2Read Employee engagement initiative

Last year the Western People, a regional newspaper in Mayo, featured the Time to Read partnership between Lionbridge Technologies and Scoil Íosa, Ballina. Representatives from the newspaper went along to the workplace visit in the Emmet St premises where students from Scoil Íosa were invited to visit their volunteer readers at work. The workplace visit is often an exciting aspect of