Kia UK has been named within the 2023 Greatest Workplaces for Girls record by Nice Place to Work.

The corporate has its personal girls’s community and is an energetic member of the Automotive 30% Membership, an organisation encouraging motor trade corporations to place girls in additional key management positions.

Lately Kia UK has additionally partnered with Shifting Forward on Inclusive Management coaching for all workers in addition to a cross firm mentoring programme to advance office variety, fairness and inclusion.

Supporting girls within the office, Kia UK has just lately launched the supply of Girls in Management apprenticeships to foster expertise and unlock potential, in addition to menopause assist by way of the specialist app, Peppy.

Kia UK mentioned it’s is dedicated to creating an inclusive working surroundings and is frequently updating its inclusion plan and recruitment practices, with initiatives to assist workers.

Moreover, Kia UK workers profit from a newly up to date, enhanced household depart coverage with transition assist via teaching, and each formal and casual versatile working.

Gemma Benbow, director of individuals & organisation at Kia UK, mentioned: “The individuals employed by this firm are its biggest asset and that is incredible recognition of the laborious work we at Kia put into encouraging a various and inclusive tradition.

“There have been some optimistic steps in direction of equalising the gender imbalance recognized within the automotive trade and Kia is proud to cleared the path to making sure its future is honest and open to all. We imagine that variety drives higher buyer experiences, higher merchandise and subsequently higher enterprise.”

Benbow hopes that Kia’s inclusion within the Greatest Office for Girls record will servce as encouragement to all girls to get into automotive.

She added: “Kia is a pacesetter in electrification and with the final trade transfer in direction of a future that’s powered by clear power, there has by no means been a extra thrilling time to be a part of this trade.”

The Greatest Office for Girls rating follows Kia UK being named a Nice Place to Work in Could this 12 months, which was subsequently adopted by 13 European-based Kia headquarters additionally being named as a Nice Place to Work.

In March, the brand new Kia Niro gained the ‘World’s Greatest Automotive for 2023’ and supreme winner accolade on the 2023 Girls’s World Automotive of the Yr (WWCOTY).

On the identical day, Kia UK celebrated Worldwide Girls’s Day 2023 (IWD23) by holding a companywide occasion targeted round this 12 months’s #EmbraceEquity theme alongside the corporate’s ongoing directive to advertise inclusive management, increase consciousness about discrimination and drive gender parity.