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Close Hi! Our privacy policy has been updated since the last time you logged in. We want to make sure you're kept up to date. Please take a moment to review these changes. Earlier this month the firm was accused by the Financial Reporting Council FRC of giving it "false and misleading" information about collapsed construction giant Carillion. KPMG said that while its senior and junior colleagues were its most socio-economically diverse employees, working class representation in middle management grades was comparatively lower and this was contributing to the pay gaps.
Out of the 10, staff who were surveyed, 1, selected "I don't know" or "Prefer not to say" options when asked about their backgrounds. The company will also train its 16, employees to understand the issue of socio-economic background and to recognise "invisible barriers" to progression. KPMG chair Bina Mehta said she was from a working-class background and was a "passionate believer that greater diversity improves business performance".
Ms Mehta was appointed to the role this year after the resignation of the company's former chairman, Bill Michael. During a company-wide Zoom call, he said there was "no such thing as unconscious bias".
In anonymous comments on the Zoom call workers complained and one wrote: "There's no such thing as unconscious bias?! Are you joking? Please do your research before just making such statements. Check your privilege. It is designed to increase awareness about race, sex, sexuality or disability prejudices and patterns of discrimination in the workplace. Nick Miller, chief executive of non-profit consultancy the Bridge Group, said: "In publishing pay gaps by socio-economic background for the first time, and using this to inform a strategy for change, KPMG is leading the way.
On the verifiability of socio-economic staff surveys, Sarah Atkinson, chief executive of the Social Mobility Foundation, told the BBC: "We don't see this being any different to the risk of employees lying about work experience on their CV; if businesses implement social mobility into all their practices it will create fairness of opportunity.
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