Employers are struggling with Black workers’ mental health amidst DEI initiatives

By Kelsey Butler
Published 5 Min Read

Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg News

Significantly increasing the numbers of Black, Latino and other underrepresented workers means not just bringing in new people, but keeping the ones you have. For employers, that’s going to mean addressing burnout in a way they never have before.

At Bain, one of 40 companies that has pledged to collectively hire and promote one million Black Americans in the next 10 years, burnout “is a real factor across populations,” said Julie Coffman, the consulting firm’s chief diversity officer, “but is maybe most acute in our Black and brown populations.”

Kelsey Butler
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