The Los Angeles Enterprise Journal has named HOK’s Los Angeles workplace as its 2023 Variety, Fairness + Inclusion Honoree within the mid-sized agency class. 

HOK’s Los Angeles workers is greater than 50% ladies and greater than 50% individuals of shade. Its government management staff (above) is comprised principally of girls.    

“We’re proud to be a frontrunner and mannequin for DEI within the office,” mentioned Anne Fletcher, managing principal for HOK in Los Angeles. “Together with setting formidable objectives, we infuse DEI into every thing we do to create essentially the most supportive, modern and collaborative setting.”  

Los Angeles Enterprise Journal recommended HOK for its DEI efforts inside Los Angeles and throughout the agency. 

Excerpted from LABJ:  

“To enhance its recruitment and retention of staff from numerous backgrounds, HOK has been monitoring and dealing to extend the variety of its management since 2015. Since then, HOK’s range metrics have proven regular progress in reaching milestone objectives that constantly increase the bar relating to illustration at each stage, place and sphere of affect throughout the agency. 

In 2021, HOK set much more aggressive range objectives for agency management roles, rising leaders, the board of administrators and the core boards (design, administration, technical and advertising and marketing). It has since realized or surpassed most of those objectives, leading to its current dedication to attaining new problem objectives by 2025. The Variety Advisory Council is working with HOK’s leaders to ascertain much more aggressive objectives going ahead. 

Every of HOK’s regional practices has developed range objectives with goal metrics. By requiring them to report their progress to the agency’s board of administrators each six months, they’re held accountable for steady enchancment.”