Brief Explanation

A non-inclusive workplace is one where people feel they cannot be themselves. It comes at a cost. It's psychologically exhausting for employees and it reduces work productivity. 'The real you matters' tackles the subject of inclusion, by featuring people who feel the need to hide an essential part of who they are out of fear of being excluded, judged or discriminated against. The film dramatises this fear-driven behaviour via 3 employees and their desperate attempts to hide a part of themselves from work colleagues and managers. A man puts his flexibility to the test to disguise his Muslim faith, a woman defies physics to conceal her pregnancy and a gay woman goes to extreme measures to cover up the gender of her fiancé. The film's conclusion highlights this absurdity and states the view of the Special Broadcasting Service that everyone should feel free to be themselves at work.