Starbucks offers a free service called Aira in all U.S. stores. The Aira app connects blind and low-vision people to trained, third-party visual interpreters to assist with their orders. Starbucks also has store features to support their deaf and hard of hearing customers including live speech-to-text technology and order [...]
During Gallo Spirit Week, E. & J. Gallo Winery hosted a 5K Run/Walk to raise awareness and funds for Stanislaus County's Miracle League, matching all employee donations. Further, the Gary Sinise Foundation Snowball Express serves the children of fallen military heroes. In 2017, the Snowball Express became an official [...]
One key to our success was making sure our managers had the tools they needed to start the conversation with confidence. Strong manager-employee relationships are key to developing trust. To best position our managers for success, we provided them with resources to help them better understand the importance of [...]
Sodexo’s Talent Acquisition strategy to source, attract and hire individuals with disabilities ensures disability inclusion training for their recruiters. By investing in educating recruiters, they are better prepared to build individual sourcing strategies for their positions that will include individuals with disabilities, be better equipped in identifying opportunities within [...]
Pepsi Achieving Change Together (ACT), in partnership with non-profit Disability Solutions @Ability Beyond, enhances the recruiting, sourcing, hiring, training and advancement for people with disabilities, including veterans with disabilities, throughout their U.S. beverage business. Pepsi ACT has provided training to over 150 managers and supervisors to improve interviewing, supervising [...]
Since March of 2020, Sodexo NorAm Internal Communications team has been working update the content on their intranet and external site to meet the global accessibility standards set by WCAG 2.1 AA. To date, we are at 70% completion of updating their top 300 pages (pages with more than [...]
For all items in Compass Group USA markets and cafes at the Microsoft Redmond Campus, large print and braille signage is used to identify products to those who are blind or have low vision. Further, all self-serve items found in their cafes/markets (forks, spoons, bowls, sugar, creamer, etc.) are [...]