Union Morris

UNION MORRIS is a United States recruitment company that puts diversity recruiting at the centre of what it advertises. Its homepage runs on three short lines, we are better together, diversity recruiting, and change is great, followed by the statement that this is not its work but its passion. The About page is candid about how new the business is and where it came from: the team describes itself as the new kid on the block, but one that has branched off from RM Discover, a business that has been staffing since 2010. Union Morris, it says, focuses its strongest recruiting efforts on diversity.

The reasoning behind that focus is set out directly. The company argues that diversity is important to innovation, problem solving and creativity, and its approach is to source for diversity from the very start of the process rather than as a late correction. It is an active paid member of a range of diversity groups and forums across the nation. Its talent acquisition team keeps track of the breakdown of workforce information that has been made public as well as the data held in its own applicant tracking system, while acknowledging that applicants and employees cannot be excluded on the basis of diversity. The company also makes the point that minority representation is usually taken to mean race or ethnicity, but that minority groups defined by gender, age or disability deserve the same consideration.

Union Morris works across the United States, and that national reach shows in how it describes its memberships, paid participation in diversity groups and forums across the country. It calls itself the matchmaker for employers and employees, bridging the worlds of corporate America and minority and gender equality, and it sets out an open invitation under the heading Opportunity and Gender Equality, asking for feedback, more outlets and suggestions in order to create more opportunity. The site itself is small, running to Home, About and Contact Us, and outside the contact page it publishes no telephone number, email address or office address.