A recent study by the social impact department of Indeed, a worldwide employment website, has found that people are open-minded to working alongside individuals with prior convictions and support fair-chance hiring practices.
A recent study by the social impact department of Indeed, a worldwide employment website, has found that people are open-minded to working alongside individuals with prior convictions and support fair-chance hiring practices.
In a survey of more than 1,000 employees, Indeed found that 92% are comfortable working with individuals with nonviolent criminal records, 91% think providing fair job opportunities is crucial to society, and 73% even prefer to work for a company that supports fair hiring practices. 70% of employees are comfortable working with individuals with a record of multiple non-violent incidents. 66% say that they would feel comfortable working with someone with a violent incident on their record, as long as it was a single, isolated occurrence. But even then, 54% of employees went as far as to state that they would be comfortable working with individuals with multiple violent incidents in their past.
These findings affirm a survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management and the SHRM Foundation of 1,100 employees. This survey found that 79% of employees feel comfortable if some of their coworkers had a nonviolent criminal record, 57% would be proud to work for a company that addresses stigmas that people with criminal records face, and 52% think employers, as a whole, should help people with criminal records secure jobs.
Abbey Carlton, the vice president of Indeed's societal impact department had this to say about the survey:
"We are encouraged to see that employees are overwhelmingly supportive of fair-chance hiring practices and even say that a company's practices in this area would influence their decision to work there."
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