Xero Blog

To our Xero community,  These are challenging times for everyone. Our purpose is to make life better for small businesses and during these challenging times, this mission is more important than ever. 

To our Xero community, We wanted to take a moment to share with our customers, partners and communities how Xero is responding to the evolving Coronavirus (COVID-19) situation. We’ve been closely monitoring this since news first broke and we’ve had a dedicated team working on this for some time.

At Xero, we have a strong commitment to gender equality. We were thrilled to be included in this year’s Bloomberg Gender Equality Index, but know that championing diversity is much more than achieving gender balance.

Check out the latest updates for small businesses and advisors, plus a peek at what’s coming soon. Xero changes and release updates can be found in Xero Central or keep an eye on the feature timeline for a summary of some of our bigger releases.

This Sunday, 8 March, is International Women’s Day. The global focus for 2020 is #EachforEqual – the idea that whatever our gender identity, each one of us can help create a gender equal world.

Earlier this week, we opened the conversation about what a gender equal workplace means to some of our people and customers around the world. And we are excited to continue the conversation in the run up to International Women’s Day on Sunday 8th March.

At Xero, we’re committed to building a fast-growing but sustainable business. As part of our focus on social and environmental impact, we announced Net Zero @ Xero in November 2019. This is our commitment to offset 100% of Xero’s carbon emissions across all areas of the business for the year to 31 March 2019, and going forward. 

Last night we celebrated our accounting and app partners from across South Africa at the annual Xero Awards. Marking the first time we’ve hosted a standalone event for the awards, it was an honour to reward our community of partners for their hard work and dedication. 

Did you know that no country in the world has yet achieved gender equality? As International Women’s Day (IWD) 2020 draws near, it’s important to highlight that gender equality is no longer a women’s issue – it’s a human issue and a business issue.