For the last few years, it seems that the anti-DEI sentiment has gained traction, and old habits have indeed been hard to break. The Supreme Court’s decision to end Affirmative Action and strip away LGBTQIA+ rights has furthered the DEI-hate train. The critiques of DEI have been escalating; in 2020 President Trump issued a diversity training ban and almost three years […]

It’s been three years since the death of George Floyd, which prompted thousands of businesses across the country to create programs fostering workplace diversity or to shore up existing programs. Regrettably, many of these programs are being dramatically scaled back as part of the backlash against this nation’s long overdue and desperately needed racial reckoning. Read more.

Florida’s public schools will now teach students that some Black people benefited from slavery because it taught them useful skills, part of new African American history standards approved Wednesday that were blasted by a state teachers’ union as a “step backward.” Read more.

It’s not a hallucination. The youngest generation entering the workforce may be the most prepared to champion and use generative artificial intelligence at work. Read More Mark’s Take The increasing use of AI technologies in the workplace has implications for employees of older generations and their leaders. Gen Z, who are often more familiar with […]

Now that the supreme court has declared affirmative action policies in college and university admissions unconstitutional, questions are arising over whether the court’s decision will affect diversity efforts in the workplace. Read more.

During last October’s oral arguments in the supreme court’s affirmative action cases, Justice John Roberts interrupted Harvard’s lawyer, Seth Waxman, to ask: “Isn’t that what the case is about, the discrimination against Asian Americans?” In a word, no. Read more.

A recent survey by the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia found that about 50 percent of Donald Trump voters and 40 percent of Joe Biden voters agreed to some extent with the proposition that the country should split up, with either red or blue states seceding. Read more. Mark’s Take The desire to […]

More than four years after Walt Disney Studios staffers LaRonda Rasmussen and Karen Moore first filed a complaint accusing the Mouse House of discriminating against female workers by paying them less than men, attorneys for the duo and other women are today asking a California judge to allow them to turn the matter into a class-action suit. […]

It’s natural to chat with colleagues at work, even if it’s just for a few minutes in the morning and on break. The chances are that politics sometimes comes up. In today’s polarized political environment it’s not long before these discussions can get pretty heated. There’s not necessarily anything wrong with a little back-and-forth about […]

The Inclusion Channel Team will design and conduct a one hour workshop on the rules for discussing Politics at Work. Team.