Robert Half

Protiviti
California
Accounting Payroll & HR Services, Commercial and Professional Services

Corprate Bias Ratings

Risk Level:

Rating - Danger
High Risk

Robert Half, a recruiting and HR consulting firm, pledges to vet vendors for LGBTQ policies. Robert Half does not make donations to religious organizations and does not protect its employees from viewpoint discrimination. Robert Half attended Lesbians Who Tech & Allies 2022 Pride Summit, co-hosted a panel on the LGBTQ+ community, and has alliances with The National Urban League. Robert Half advocates for other companies to implement ESG criteria and publicly support the BLM movement. Robert Half covers the cost of "medically necessary transition-related care" for its employees and their children. For these reasons, Robert Half receives a High Risk rating.

Criteria
Risk Level
Rationale
Corporate Weaponization
Criteria

Has denied service to customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

Risk Level
Rationale

Robert Half received a score of 100 on the Corporate Equality Index from the Human Rights Campaign (1). Among other requirements, this means the company has pledged to vet vendors for LGBTQ policies. Robert Half integrates ESG into all of its business practices (2)(3).

Criteria

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

Risk Level
Rationale

Robert Half does not make charitable donations to religious organizations (1).

Criteria

Employment policies fail to protect against discrimination based on political affiliation/views and/or religion.

Risk Level
Rationale

Robert Half does not protect its employees from viewpoint discrimination (1).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy
Criteria

Uses corporate reputation to support ideological causes and/or organizations hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level
Rationale

Robert Half attended Lesbians Who Tech & Allies 2022 Pride Summit, and co-hosted a panel with It Gets Better, an LGBTQ organization (1). Robert Half has alliances with the National Urban League and other DEI groups, and the company promotes its LGBT ERG. (2)(3). Robert Half advocated for other companies to implement ESG criteria in a blog post called, “Why an ESG Program Is Critical to the New Social Contract With Your Employees” and published a statement in support of Juneteenth and Black Lives Matter (4)(5).

Criteria

Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level
Rationale

Robert Half is a copper sponsor of Out & Equal (1). Robert Half and its subsidiary Protiviti are corporate partners of the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce (2). Robert Half has a perfect score on the HRC’s 2022 Corporate Equality Index; this score indicates the company covers the cost of “medically necessary transition-related care” for its employees and their children (3)(4).

Criteria

Uses corporate political contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

Risk Level
N/A
Rationale

Robert Half does not operate a PAC (1).

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December 5, 2023

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