We genuinely believe that our unique qualities make us stronger and better at serving the needs of our customers and the communities we operate in. Our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits widen our perspectives and enable us to see things in different lights. Moreover, this diversity enriches our everyday lives; we’re challenged, we learn new skills and we get new experiences.
We want to encourage a positive development where all people are experiencing equal value, both as employees and customers.
We want you to feel that you can bring your whole self to work and that you are appreciated, respected and valued for your unique qualities.
Equal opportunities is one of our sustainability targets – and we are proud of our genuine and structured work for diversity and inclusion. We can only make our workplace inclusive for everybody if we do it together and at all levels.
When joining us, you can engage in our employee-led groups that work together to make our workplace even more inclusive.
At Nordea, we encourage our employees to join Employee Resource Groups(ERGs) which are voluntary, employee-led groups that provide peer support, highlight diverse perspectives, and drive engagement and awareness. All people in Nordea can utilise 16 paid hours per year for ERG related work.
So far, there are groups across all countries focusing on ability variation, culture diversity, age inclusion, gender equality and LGBTQ+ – and they're growing! We truly value our people's engagement and know that we can achieve a lot together.
At Nordea we have employees of more than 100 nationalities from all over the world. All in all we speak more than 60 languages.
Our different backgrounds contribute to our development, innovation and culture in many ways.
Nordea sees high value in the employee engagement within the D&I area, and wants to encourage the commitment to the Employee Resource Groups. We want to become an even more inclusive workplace, because we know that the diversity of Nordea makes us stronger together.
Equal representation of women and men is high on our agenda. It is one of our sustainability targets.
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We aim to further strengthen our engagement in this area to increase accessibility and inclusion.
Ability Variation is an umbrella term that represents the diverse abilities that we all possess, something that is a focus area in Nordea’s Diversity & Inclusion commitment. We want to understand both challenges and strengths that come with different impairments, regardless of if they are visible or non-visible, physical or cognitive. This helps us to become better in meeting diverse needs of customers and employees, and to create a more inclusive and accessible work environment.
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We're very age diverse and our employees span more than five generations. We understand the value of age diversity and work to prevent ageism for all age groups.
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At Nordea, we share the same values. One of them is Ownership. Find out what ownership means to our employees in their daily work.
Nordea is a proud partner of Pride. Our partnership goes back many years and is one example of how we work to strengthen LGBTQ+ inclusion in our workplace and in society.
Pride is not only about celebrating diversity – it’s also about sending an important message that we all, regardless of gender, sexual orientation or lifestyle, should be treated fairly and with respect and have the possibility to fulfil our dreams.
Nordea's participation in Pride is an important part of our diversity and inclusion work. It is driven by a cross-organisational collaboration between our LGBTQ+ employee resource groups and various parts of our business organisation.
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Learn more about life at Nordea by meeting some of our people. You'll learn more about how we’re creating an environment that empowers our people to learn every day. With us, you'll find a variety of career tracks where you can follow your passion.
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Diversity & inclusion
At Nordea Estonia we always strive to create an inclusive work environment where everyone can be their true selves. Again this year we were one of the main sponsors of Tallinn Pride.
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Entrepreneurship
Last week we found the three winners of our Abilitypreneur of the Year award which is an unique innovation contest which highlights entrepreneurs that focus on diverse abilities.
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Diversity & inclusion
We believe that a variety of personalities, backgrounds and experiences lays the foundation for great performance, and that making use of all our different qualities enables us to serve our diverse range of customers much better.
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