Diversity at H&M

Recruiting sign, H&M, Pacific Centre, Vancouver, BC

Retailers are showing a greater willingness to hire diverse employees that ever before. Part of this is the demographic shift and the smaller number of "retail age" candidates available. But I think that it is also reflective of the increasingly diverse nature of the available workforce.

Featuring a young woman with a nose ring featured in a recruitment advertisement is not something we would have seen even five or ten years ago. I think it is great change.

H&M and other retailers adopting similarly diverse approaches to their workforce are to be commended.