KFC, a fast food chain based in US, is planning to double women employees count at restaurants to 5,000 in 3-4 years as part of its diversity and inclusion initiatives.
The company is also aiming to increase the ratio of women workforce from 30 percent to 40 percent by the year 2024 as part of its ‘KFC Kshamata’ programme.
“On gender diversity, it has grown very organically. It is not like we were going out and trying to make a very loud exercise. Between 2013-14 and pre-Covid, in those five or six years diversity in our restaurants, from a gender perspective, has grown from 7-8 percent to around 30 percent…that included both team members and leaders of restaurants,”said Samir Menon, Managing Director, KFC India.
“We have about 2,500 hundred women in our restaurants across states…Our intent is to at least, if nothing else, double the number of women we have in our restaurants over the next three or or four years and bring it up to 5,000 or so,” added Menon.
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