Companies are increasingly investing in diversity, equity and inclusion programs in an effort to build better workplaces for their employees. But are they forgetting to ask for input from employees themselves?
According to LinkedIn, the number of jobs focused on diversity has grown 71% since 2015. But as demonstrated in a 2021 research report by Arizent, parent company to Employee Benefit News, the impact of that growth is often less obvious within company culture. Eighty-three percent of employees with official DEI responsibilities reported effective communication of those efforts; just 62% of employees without official DEI responsibilities agreed, and 24% found those communications to be very ineffective.
