2025 State of Programmatic Report
Diversity refers to the variety of similarities and differences among people, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, nationality, Native or Indigenous origin, gender, gender identity/expression, age/generation, sexual orientation, religion/belief system, marital status, parental/family status, socio-economic difference, appearance, language/accent, ability/disability, mental health, education, veteran status, thinking/learning style, and personality type.
Equity refers to a commitment to providing everyone with the support and access to the resources they need to be successful. This includes identifying and eliminating barriers that have prevented ALL employees' full participation and engagement within our workforce. Improving equity involves increasing fairness within the procedures, processes, and systems as well as the distribution of resources and opportunities. Our commitment to equity, a step beyond equality, acknowledges that people have different starting points, roadblocks, and needs, as they navigate their lives and careers.
Inclusion refers to an environment where equitable access to resources and opportunities for all is ensured to create a fair, healthy, and high-performing workforce. Inclusion fosters psychological safety, enabling people to feel safe, respected, valued, and motivated to contribute to and grow within a community and organization to which they belong. An inclusive environment means that all employees feel valued and accepted precisely as they are.
Belonging refers to the emotional state that the previous Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts collectively aim for -- comfortability, accessibility, safety, and security in an environment where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. When people can confidently share their ideas, collaboration, problem-solving, and decision-making can grow and thrive! Feelings of belonging impact both performance and retention and are critical to improving engagement and Comscore’s overall success.
Accessibility refers to the consideration and accommodation of a diverse and dynamic workforce's varying physical and mental needs. Retention, productivity, innovation, and increased engagement are some of the many benefits of creating an environment where every level of the employee experience (hiring, onboarding, development/promotion, evaluation, etc.) is truly accessible to all. Equitable access ensures the identification and elimination of barriers to someone’s success and growth at Comscore.
CEP’s mission is to offer a community and outlet for emerging leaders who are committed to personal growth, by providing opportunities for networking, career advancement, and civic engagement.
REAL’s mission is to advance diversity, equity, and representation at Comscore by fostering appreciation, retention, leadership, and a strong sense of community. While our programs and initiatives are centered on supporting people of color and other underrepresented groups—such as African Americans, American Indians and Alaska Natives, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and Latinos—we warmly welcome all Comscorians. Our community is open to anyone who wishes to learn, support, and celebrate equity and inclusion across different races, ethnicities, religions, and cultural practices, both in the U.S. and globally.
It is CRA’s mission to cultivate a welcoming and safe environment for all sexual orientations and gender identities, where Comscore's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, and asexual+ employees can thrive professionally through education, support of community, social action, and advocacy.
It is PWCs' mission to guide members and allies in career and personal development by providing support and a safe space to talk about the hard stuff in order to achieve our goals.
Comprised of local-based chapters supported by a Global Board, PWCs collaborates closely with other Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), promoting unity with intersectionality at Comscore.
The Remote Employee Resource Group’s mission is to uncover ways to integrate more seamlessly into Comscore’s previously office-based culture, increase our remote employee’s connectivity to one another, and create an arsenal of resources that support our remote-working colleagues.
We own and honor our commitments to our customers, each other, and ourselves.
We work together to achieve our common purpose.
We have an insatiable desire to keep learning.
We put the customer's needs and interests at the center of our attention.
We insist that the talents and unique perspectives of every employee are valued and engaged in building our success.
We always do the right thing, even when it's not the easy thing.
We approach our work in pursuit of the cleanest, clearest solutions.
Through an enlightening series of video interviews called Listening to the Nation, the American Communities Project explores how people from different backgrounds and places define or understand terms like Diversity, Culture, Community, Inequality and Personal Responsibility. We share some of their videos here to help spread their important insights, with the American Communities Project’s gracious permission, and encourage everyone to watch with an ear towards hearing the communication gaps we each must bridge to achieve an inclusive and tolerant society.
And if you're interested in seeing how ACP uses Comscore's audience viewership data in their research, have a look at this: How Top Issues Compare to Cable News Viewership.
Comscore respectfully acknowledges that we live, work, and learn on the ancestral lands of Indigenous and First Nations peoples. If you would like to learn more about Native/indigenous lands upon which you live and work, you can explore here at https://native-land.ca/.