At Aquent, we value and respect the unique characteristics of our employees, business partners and suppliers—including age, race, culture, gender, sexual orientation, language, physical ability, religion, citizenship, socioeconomic position, education, and life experience.

We are fully committed to embracing people’s individual differences and strengths. By recruiting from an expansive talent pool, promoting workplace and community-wide diversity, and supporting a healthy work-life balance for employees, we can incorporate a wide range of varying perspectives and at the same time, foster an inclusive culture that helps our clients and creative talent come together to share ideas, work smarter, and succeed through inspired thinking.

Following are three strategic areas where Aquent excels at leveraging and managing diversity in the workplace:

Staff and Talent Recruitment

Proactively recruiting, training, and retaining expert creative professionals of different backgrounds and experiences is paramount to our success—and the success of our clients. Because Aquent is a performance-based company committed to a policy of nondiscrimination and equal employment opportunities for all candidates, we seek the best and brightest talent based on job-related qualifications—and we do so strategically, recruiting from a wide variety of sources and participating in diversity recruitment events, diversity alumni activities, and industry career fairs. By maintaining an engaging, inclusive, and collaborative work environment for our employees, we can attract and retain the most diverse—and most highly skilled—pool of talent to meet our clients’ broad marketing and design needs.

Employee Work-Life Balance

We understand the time pressures facing workers and the importance of having a life beyond the workplace. We also know that the proper work-life balance varies among employees and a schedule that works today may no longer work next year or even next month. Throughout Aquent, we work hard to promote a culture that encourages flexibility to meet employees’ diverse needs, life-stages, and obligations outside the office.

When appropriate, we do what we can to support flexible work hours, telecommuting, and generous vacation and sick days.

Supplier Diversity

As one of the largest minority-owned professional services companies in the United States, we understand that creating mutually beneficial relationships with a rich, diverse pool of suppliers and vendors—including minority- and woman-owned business enterprises (MBEs)—provides a variety of competitive and economic benefits because it helps us deliver cost-effective client solutions and ensures that we obtain the highest quality and most competitively priced goods and services.

In recognition of our ongoing commitment to setting the standard for exceptional business practices among MBEs, Aquent was awarded the highest designation for a minority supplier by the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC)—the coveted Corporate Plus® designation. We are proud to be consistently listed among DiversityBusiness.com’s “Top 100 Diversity Owned Businesses in the U.S.” and currently hold certifications with NMSDC affiliates nationwide, WMBE Clearinghouse, and the Massachusetts State Office of Minority and Women’s Business Assistance (SOMWBA). As a global organization with deep resources, we are committed to mentoring smaller MBEs, providing support to the regional NMSDC affiliates, and helping our clients achieve their business and supplier diversity objectives.

Contact Information

For more information on recruitment, employee or supplier diversity at Aquent, please contact Diversity Relationships at 617 535 5000.