This article originally published July 3, 2018.

(CNN Business) When Jennifer Hyman co-founded Rent the Runway, she sought to disrupt an industry and change the way women shopped for clothes. Now she's focused on shaking things up within her own company.

In May, the 37-year-old CEO announced the company will offer the same benefits to all 1,200 of its employees. Everyone -- from salaried C-suite executives to hourly warehouse workers -- will have the same bereavement, parental and family sick leave and sabbatical packages. "It's the right thing to do," says Hyman.

But it wasn't always the case.

"I, in founding Rent the Runway, had set up a system where I just copied what best-in-class companies [did]," Hyman tells CNN's Poppy Harlow in a recent episode of Boss Files . "And what I realized was that we were perpetuating income inequality in this country."

When she announced the new policy at the company's warehouse in New Jersey she said it was "some of the most profound hours of my life, let alone my career."

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