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The people working day-to-day at our company are the heartbeat of our business. Employees are the core of what keeps any company alive and thriving. And, successful companies understand that allowing employees to reach their full potential is the key to producing tremendous results for customers and shareholders. Discrimination is a destructive force that erodes a company’s ability to grow and thrive by not allowing every person in that organization to realize their full potential.

 

At the heart of PayPal’s culture is collaboration, innovation, wellness, and inclusion. Inclusion and equality are values at the center of everything we believe in and endeavor to achieve at PayPal. Our individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, and self-expression of our employees is what creates our culture and the fabric of who we are to the world. It’s for this reason that we must always strive for an environment of involvement, respect, collaboration and connection — where the richness of ideas, backgrounds, and perspectives are cultivated and celebrated every day.

 

In recognition of the work that we have done to create a more inclusive environment, PayPal has just been announced as a handful of companies ranking 100 percent on the 2016 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), a national benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to LGBT workplace equality, administered by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. The CEI report evaluates LGBT-related policies and practices including non-discrimination workplace protections, domestic partner benefits, transgender-inclusive health care benefits, competency programs, and public engagement with the LGBT community.

 

We are thrilled to have this recognition here at PayPal, as a Best Place to Work for LGBT Equality. There is clearly still work to do to ensure that all people enjoy full equality in the workplace. Efforts to support the LGBT community in our organization and outside of our campuses, does not end at inclusive policies. Inclusion in every aspect of our lives is going to take much more, but it is important that we are initially creating standards for protections and benefits to openly support our LGBT communities.

 

I am proud of our PayPal employees for demonstrating our values of inclusion every day. I encourage all of you to inspire and influence others, continue to evolve our collective thinking, creating workplaces where every employee can bring their whole selves to work. Let’s continue to raise the bar, so together we can create a society that is more inclusive in all aspects of life.