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Gender pronouns - using them or not?

Nina Cairns

Morning all - I wondered what the trend is with regards to changing employee handbooks, policies and /or contracts from using gender pronouns?  We are startup organisation and have just embarked on defining our D&I strategy,. Any thoughts would be appreciated, thanks 

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  • We are currently updating our handbook / policies etc. and have generally used 2nd person terms (so 'we will' and 'you should') where possible.
    Where 'you' / 'we' doesn't work; we have gone with 'the Employee' or just 'they/ them / their' instead.
    This was predominantly to make the documents a bit more approachable (and encourage ownership), rather than a conscious attempt to avoid gender pronouns - but ultimately has meant the documents are gender neutral by default.
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  • We are currently updating our handbook / policies etc. and have generally used 2nd person terms (so 'we will' and 'you should') where possible.
    Where 'you' / 'we' doesn't work; we have gone with 'the Employee' or just 'they/ them / their' instead.
    This was predominantly to make the documents a bit more approachable (and encourage ownership), rather than a conscious attempt to avoid gender pronouns - but ultimately has meant the documents are gender neutral by default.
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