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Diversity in the UK

Standard Life's first-ever diversity survey

In May 2007, we launched our first-ever diversity survey and asked our UK permanent employees to help us “paint the picture of diversity” at Standard Life. We outlined our plans to do this in our Corporate Responsibility Report 2006. These results are being discussed within Standard Life to identify appropriate actions to be taken.

Nearly eight thousand employees received a personal email from Anne Gunther, chief executive of Standard Life Bank and head of our Diversity Strategy Group, inviting them to take part in the survey. 

Over 5,500 staff took part

The survey was conducted online, was on an anonymous basis, ran for two weeks and generated over 5,500 responses - nearly 72% of those surveyed. We are delighted by this enthusiastic and overwhelmingly honest response.

A few point to note about the results

• For every question we offered a “Prefer not to answer” response; this or a blank response accounted for an average of 2.7% of responses across all questions.  These are shown together as “unknown” in the presentation below.
  
  
• Care should be taken before drawing conclusions from findings, particularly for some analyses, as data is likely to have included rogue responses.  As subsequent surveys take place, findings should stabilise and permit trends to emerge.
  
  
• Figures may not add up to 100% because of rounding.

1. Age

Age	<20	20-29	30-39	40-49	50-59	59+	Unknown	Total
Standard Life UK	0.3%	20.3%	38.4%	27.6%	11.0%	0.6%	1.8%	100%

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2. Gender

Composition of workforce, by gender and management level.

Gender	Female	Male	Unknown	Total
Team member	58.2%	41.4%	0.4%	100%
Manager/Specialist	43.1%	56.6%	0.3%	100%
Executive	23.3%	75.3%	1.4%	100%
Standard Life UK	52.3%	46.3%	1.4%	100%

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3. Race & Ethnicity

Percentage of employees who consider they are from Black or minority ethnic (BME) groups.

Race & Ethnicity	BME
Females	5.0%
Males	5.4%
Standard Life UK	5.3%

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4. Disability

Percentage of employees who consider they have a disability.

Disability	With disability
Standard Life UK	4.5%

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5. Sexual Orientation & Transgender

Percentage of employees who consider they are transgender or who describe their sexual orientation as bisexual, gay or lesbian.

Sexual orientation and transgender	Standard Life UK
Transgender	0.9%
Bisexual	0.7%
Gay/ lesbian	2.1%

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6. Religion or Belief

How employees describe their religion or belief.

Religion or Belief	Christian	Other Religions or Beliefs	None	unknown
Standard Life UK	57%	4%	34%	4%

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7. Volunteering / Civic duties

Percentage of employees who perform civic duties e.g. military reservist, Justice of the Peace, or who do work for voluntary organisations.

Volunteering / Civic duties	Civic duties	Volunteer
Standard Life UK	0.8%	9.5%

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8. Flexible working

How employees describe their working arrangement.

Flexible working		Gender composition of this working arrangement
Full-time	Standard Life UK	Female	Male	Unknown
	78.5%	44%	55%	1%
Part-time	15.1%	94%	5%	1%
Non-standard hours (compressed)	2.3%	64%	36%	<1%
Job share	0.3%	82%	18%	<1%
Other	1.6%	69%	30%	1%
Undeclared	2.2%	-	-	-
All arrangements	100%	52%	46%	1%

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9. Caring responsibilities

How employees describe their caring responsibilities.

Caring responsibilities	Standard Life UK
No caring responsibilities	51%
Children only	41%
Someone else only	5%
Children and someone else	2%
Unknown	1%
Total	100%