On the heels of the federal government announcing that it will change how it trains federal workers on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), thank you to the hundreds of readers that took a few minutes to respond to this anonymous survey about DEI efforts in your workplace.
Below are the survey results. (If you are viewing this in an email, you’ll need to download the images.) I’ll add my commentary at the end.
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This two-page memo from the Executive Office of the President made several headlines on Friday. Continue reading
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On Wednesday evening, the players on the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks shocked us all. Continue reading
Two black employees complain to a supervisor that a white co-worker is taunting them with racial pejoratives.
What do you do? Continue reading
Earlier this week, ViacomCBS announced that it had severed ties with Nick Cannon over anti-Semitic remarks he made recently on this episode of his YouTube podcast “Cannon’s Class.” Continue reading
Yesterday’s post about employees wearing Black Lives Matter apparel at work was a bit of a lightning rod.
While all of the comments I received were respectful — thank you! — some questioned whether allowing employees to wear BLM face masks, pins, and insignia to work would open the door to others showing support for “White Lives Matter.”
Well, sure enough, between yesterday’s blog post and this one, that’s what we got. Continue reading
If you’ve read the news recently, you may have seen stories like this one and this one about large businesses that had policies against employees wearing pro-BLM clothes and apparel. In those two examples, each of the companies has since changed its policies. You can read more about that here and here.
But, let’s say that your business still wanted to ban employees from wearing Black Lives Matter masks or symbols at work.
To be quite honest with you, I’m somewhat bewildered. Continue reading
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Do you ever wonder what the heck is wrong with people sometimes? Of course, you do; you’re in human resources. Continue reading
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Technically, they settled for $1.15M. But, that won’t stop me from playing some ‘Lil Wayne. Continue reading
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