DEI efforts are often concentrated on biases surrounding gender, race and sexual identity, pushing other lines of discrimination to the side — but employers may be missing an essential piece of what creates inequity in their workplace: Class.
Class can be defined by various factors, namely one’s income, education, status, family and social network. While an employee’s class shouldn’t matter in the workplace, that sentiment doesn’t stop classism from being part of an organization’s hierarchy, underlines Shane Lloyd, chief diversity officer at Baker Tilly, an advisory, tax and assurance firm.
