Best of the week: Addressing bias in employee benefit programs
This week’s top stories explore how employers are attempting to reduce bias in the benefits they offer to help employees succeed.
Diversity and equality
PwC is tackling workplace equity by uplifting Black, Latinx students
The new venture is an effort to veer away from traditional one-off diversity initiatives.
Amazon pledges to promote more women, black employees
The e-commerce company outlined a set of hiring and promotion targets for 2021.
McDonald’s mandates anti-harassment training for all employees
The fast food giant has long been accused of ignoring workplace abuse.
Bank of America gets creative in supporting employees with disabilities
The pandemic has disproportionately affected employees with disabilities.
Artificial intelligence could be adding to the bias at your company
Algorithms might just absorb the same prejudices employers are trying to avoid if they don’t acknowledge racial biases.
Financial wellness is a critical tool for DEI initiatives
The first step in improving workplace diversity is de-stigmatizing financial help.
Corporate leaders decry anti-LGBTQ legislative moves in U.S.
This type of legislation undermines companies’ ability to recruit workers and retain existing talent in those states, the executives said.
Glassdoor reveals why women aren’t asking for pay raises
Unchecked, this trend could potentially stunt female workers’ ability to succeed professionally and financially long-term.
Unconcious bias training may hurt corporate diversity efforts
The movement against unconscious bias training, once a key element of employers’ diversity and inclusion strategies, is growing.
Citi tackles diversity efforts with new hire
Citigroup hired Goldman Sachs Group’s Erika Irish Brown to help oversee efforts to diversify its workforce.
Bank of America ups equality pledge to $1.25 billion amid anti-Asian racism
Bank of America pledged an additional $250 million toward its push to advance racial equality, adding more programs that advocate for Asian Americans to its existing initiatives. Read more: How AI can eliminate bias in compensation practices The lender will commit $1.25 billion over five years, expanding an earlier pledge of $1 billion over four […]
How PwC is helping working mothers get through COVID
For some families, the benefits expansions companies are implementing are still not enough.
How this startup helps minorities reach financial wellness
As communities begin to build back their finances after the pandemic, this company wants to close the gap in equitable lending.
Salary.com wants to help companies close the gender pay gap
Salary.com’s toolkit gives employers insights into why pay gaps exist within their organizations and provides resources and solutions.
The pandemic was historically bad for working-class women
The data show a jobs recession that was hardest on women without college degrees and Black and Hispanic women, and was pretty tough on men without college degrees and Hispanic men too.
Benefits Think Technology can help employers avoid hiring biases
Objective and fair recruitment and hiring can be facilitated by scientific implementation of progressive technology.
Joel Philo
Infor Talent Science
Coaching could keep your female employees from quitting
Workers need help focusing, organizing themselves and finding the resilience that they need to keep coming back every day to work.
Cleo ramps up diversity initiatives to combat racism in healthcare
Black and other minority groups in the U.S. experience more illness, worse outcomes and higher rates of premature death compared with their white peers.
Noodles & Co joins PwC, McDonalds and Verizon on corporate diversity pledge
Companies that promote greater diversity within the organization have employees who are more creative and innovative.
