R/GA’s commitment to battling systemic racism goes beyond our corporate strategy for racial equity, Make / Change. We also enable our people to use their creative and strategic talents to support BIPOC-owned small businesses, and in so doing, do our part to help close the racial wealth gap. In April…

After closing out our first full year of publishing quarterly diversity data as part of our Make / Change commitment to transparency, our first Make / Change report of 2022 both shows progress and highlights areas where we need to evolve more quickly to keep up with employee turnover. Since…

As a return to offices becomes possible in many parts of the world, companies are facing a decision on how to approach the future of work. Many, it seems, want to return to the past. Employees in this industry and others have been vocal about their need for greater flexibility…

Around a year ago, we made a commitment to accountability with the first in a series of quarterly reports comprised of data representing the gender and racial diversity of R/GA’s U.S. population. We were transparent that the data we shared at the time largely represented a failure to adequately attract…

It’s that time of the year again: the SXSW PanelPicker is now open and agencies are campaigning for your votes. We have 10 panels in the running this year that need your support! Maybe you’re a nerd for design, the NYT mobile app gets all your screen time, or being…

When we set out a year and a half ago to publish our diversity data of U.S. employees, we emphasized progress over perfection; our goal was to commit to transparency, rather than hitting quotas, by publishing quarterly Make / Change reports. We knew that by taking such an approach, there…

This summer, we took a look back at the first year of Make / Change at R/GA, noting both the progress we’d made in our culture over the program’s inaugural year and the areas which still represented an opportunity to meet the needs of our people. Since then, we’ve continued…

Last year R/GA committed to sharing quarterly updates of our diversity data along with the initiatives we’ve adopted to improve upon it and become a permanently equitable workplace. We remain steadfast in this commitment and are excited to share updates since we last released our numbers in November. The…

In July 2020, we published our US diversity data for the first time, along with a commitment to revisit the data every three months. Since then, we’ve also published our strategy for the creation of equity at R/GA, Make / Change. New York, NY, November 2, 2020 — A COVID year is a strange year to be looking at changes in employee data, as the pandemic has forced both delayed promotion cycles and restructuring of workforces, including ours. As a result, the quantitative data representing the race, ethnicity, and gender of…