Equinix FaithConnect: Where We Celebrate Spiritual Diversity – Interconnections – The Equinix Blog
There are three pillars that make up the Equinix FaithConnect Constitution:
- Invite: Encouraging folks of all beliefs–internally and externally–to attach and higher perceive one another
- Study: A seamless need to know one another and one another’s beliefs
- Respect: Enabling folks to share what their religion means to them and honoring our numerous beliefs
We use this constitution as the idea for our world planning to make sure we’re creating alternatives to ask colleagues to hitch the community, study extra concerning the non secular range that exists amongst us, and present respect as colleagues share what their religion means to them.
Along with inside occasions, FaithConnect members have participated in occasions with comparable faith-based teams at different corporations. In 2021, I organized and moderated two panels:
- Girls in Tech Ramadan with feminine panelists from Google, Salesforce, PayPal and Apple
- Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur with panelists from Google, American Airways, Salesforce and Twitter
On account of our Rosh Hashanah panel, Google shared their vacation calendar with our volunteers who used it to finetune the Equinix calendar that they had already created. Our scheduling groups now use that calendar to populate essential faith-based holidays and observances around the globe to keep away from scheduling firm conferences and occasions on these dates.
This 12 months throughout Ramadan, FaithConnect held a Quick-a-Thon with PayPal. We additionally hosted an iftar, the meal held at sundown to interrupt the each day Ramadan quick. The occasion was attended by Equinix and PayPal workers of varied faiths together with Christians, Scientologists and Sikhs.
In Could of this 12 months, I attended the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation’s Dare to Overcome conference in Washington DC. I organized and moderated a panel “Find out how to set up a profitable faith-based ERG” with panelists from Salesforce, Google, Intel and Meta. Throughout this convention, Equinix was honored with the Corporate Religious Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (REDI) Index award for rating 6th on the listing of prime faith-friendly workplaces within the Fortune 500. The REDI Index is used as a benchmarking measure of an organization’s dedication to incorporate faith as a part of its general range initiatives.
Whereas speaking about religion within the office has historically been thought of off limits, that’s slowly altering. Firms acknowledge that making house for religion permits workers to point out up extra totally as their complete selves. FaithConnect offers the chance for colleagues to debate their very own beliefs brazenly and respectfully and discover different faiths, which has expanded inclusion and belonging.
Just lately, I linked with Brian, Ross and Saif to listen to firsthand how taking part within the employee-led Equinix FaithConnect Community has helped develop their understanding of different faiths and strengthen their very own religion journeys, whereas offering that all-important sense of “I’m secure, I belong, and I matter.”
Brian Hodges, Sr. Supervisor for Expertise Administration & Mobility and International Communications Co-lead for FaithConnect
