Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)

Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are company-sponsored, employee-led affinity, belonging and allyship organizations within companies. They provide an official channel for differing communities within a company to support one another and engage with and inform others.

These networks have the business purpose of making each employee feel welcomed and valued; they also open the space for business inputs from diverse perspectives. For example Google began offering faith-related products, such religion-themed Google doodles and as interactive religious holiday pages after setting up the Inter Belief Network (IBN). They are therefore also known as Employee Business Resource Groups (EBRGs).

Our research shows that when faith-and-belief-oriented ERGs are present, it increases the overall inclusion of other groups.

Faith and interfaith ERGs also build corporate cultures where antisemitism and any form of religious hatred or prejudice have no place (see more).

The videos and resources below give insights from numerous companies that have successfully integrated religion, faith and/or belief into their corporate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) priorities. The Religious Freedom & Business Foundation’s Faith-Friendly Workplace Benchmarking (REDI) Index is a benchmarking tool for companies to track progress in religiously inclusive workplaces.Contact us for more information!

The video immediately below shares the high level findings from the first edition of the REDI Index (2020).