Kevin Nyango
Its becoming more about making a bigger difference in the corporate world and WeWork a workspace solutions provider in New York is planning to do just that; chief executive Adam Neumann made public that WeWork aspires to employ one thousand five hundred refugees by the the end of half a decade and this he asserted is not a political gimmick but a move birthed from an onus to bring working solutions to apparent problems.
Following the executive order by US president Donald Trump restricting travel, different companies have endeavored to drive toward hiring more refugees this has been received with mixed feeling such as the Starbucks initiative earlier this year to hire over 9000 refugees in 75 nations; a similar fate with stronger political antagonism was experienced when Hamdi Ulukaya chief executive of Chobani Yoghurt introduced a working scheme of hiring more refugees in factories of the company.
It has been observed that the level of dedication to work is quite high for many employed refugees such a phenomenon David Miliband International Rescue Committee chief observed; he has further noted a paradigm shift in the corporate world of companies going a dynamic step further in the aid rendered to assist the refugee crises.
WeWorks hopes to encourage its over 19 000 clientele base to adopt similar initiatives that can lead to integration of refugees in to their respective work forces. Gideon Maltz executive director of Tent partnership for Refugees supports this move by WeWork and hopes it can catch on with other enterprises seeing that it’s a more effective in comparison to monetary contributions alone in alleviating the plight of refugees.
