There’s a nationwide labor scarcity, which largely stemmed in 2021 when greater than 47 million employees stop their jobs. A lot of these job quitters say they left seeking an improved work-life stability, extra flexibility and better pay. And lots of cited a quest for stronger firm tradition as a purpose to maneuver on. Enter: the Ladies and Drones awards for one of the best drone firms for feminine workers in 2022.
The Ladies in Rising Aviation Applied sciences, which is an awards program put collectively by the Ladies and Drones group, acknowledged eight firms around the globe as honorees in its “High Corporations for Ladies in Rising Aviation Applied sciences.”
For individuals looking for a brand new job with stronger firm tradition, these eight firms could be those to think about. The honorees that had been named one of the best drone firms for feminine workers this yr are:
Learn extra concerning the particular person firms right here.
Corporations, businesses and organizations that gained had been chosen for being “within the international rising aviation industries that has a tradition the place ladies can thrive.” To be eligible for the award, firms had been nominated by at the very least one present worker and needed to have been in enterprise a minimal of 4 years. Nominees had been evaluated primarily based on standards together with:
- Gender variety
- Flexibility in hours and work necessities to accommodate household and life stability
- Aggressive compensation and advantages
- Coaching
- Continued skilled growth
- Profession development alternatives.
The ultimate honorees had been decided by a panel of 4 judges, together with Terreco Aviation CEO Lousie Jupp and Pentium CEO Chantal Khan.
“The skilled alternatives supplied within the dynamic and fast-growing uncrewed aviation area present an thrilling profession path, which we wish to see open to individuals from all backgrounds, significantly ladies,” says Lori DeMatteis, Chief Income Officer, MatrixSpace and honorary international ambassador for the awards, in a ready assertion. “These firms supply an essential combine {of professional} progress in addition to the crucial work/life stability so many people require…(and are) spectacular examples of how this business can paved the way in optimistic profession alternatives.”
Lack of variety amongst drone firms has been cited as a problem within the drone business. A 2021 diversity-focused survey from Ladies and Drones, which was carried out on-line and despatched despatched to individuals working in quite a lot of uncrewed plane techniques (UAS) and Superior Air Mobility (AAM) companies and sectors throughout the U.S., discovered that just about 75% of respondents mentioned they felt average to excessive concern concerning the lack of variety, fairness, and inclusion within the drone business on the whole.
A fair greater 80% of respondents expressed concern — starting from average to excessive — concerning the lack of variety, fairness, and inclusion (DEI) in their very own drone-related enterprise or group. And 81% of survey respondents expressed average to excessive curiosity in growing DEI of their firms.
Abut the Ladies in Rising Aviation Applied sciences Awards
The awards for one of the best drone firms for feminine workers are a part of the broader, annual Ladies in Rising Aviation Applied sciences Awards (previously often called the Ladies to Watch Awards) that doles out awards in a variety of classes. New to this yr’s awards is a Corridor of Fame for girls who’ve made an outsized impression within the drone business.
Coincidentally, one of many Corridor of Fame inductees, Anita Sengupta, shall be making two journeys to the stage on the awards ceremoy. Her firm, Hydroplane, is without doubt one of the high firms for girls.
The entire awards shall be given on the reside Ladies in Rising Aviation Applied sciences Awards at CES 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada on Friday, Jan. 6, 2023.