NABA looks to partner with firms to diversify accounting profession
The National Association of Black Accountants is hoping to expand its partnerships with accounting firms and corporate America to bring more diversity to the accounting profession.
Diversity and equality
5 ways to prevent unconscious bias from ruining your company culture
Unconscious bias can impact an organization’s hiring practices and overall company culture — and unfair habits may be intensifying under the isolation of quarantine.
Benefits Think Why diversity and inclusion initiatives need financial wellness
D&I initiatives are no longer nice-to-have, but rather vital for organizations to thrive as employees increasingly demand them.
Marthin De Beer
BrightPlan
Podcast Access Denied: The wealth effect
In the first episode of the five-part documentary series, we look at how disparities in net worth and mortgage discrimination impact Black home ownership — and why it's impossible to close the gaps without attacking systemic racism.
Podcast Introducing Access Denied: Systemic racism in financial services
This five-part series is a comprehensive effort to explain the racial discrimination Black Americans face in our financial system.
Microsoft shows minimal increases in ranks of Black, Latino employees
The software maker said it increased the proportion of both groups by 0.3 percentage points in the past year, with Black workers rising to 4.9% of its U.S. workforce and Latino employees increasing to 6.6%.
The top tool for retaining your female workforce during COVID-19
One out of four women said they may downshift their careers or leave the workforce entirely, threatening decades of career progress for female employees.
Bank of America makes progress on diversity, says there’s more work to do
Racial and gender representation increased in most areas of the company, including among senior management, according to data from the bank.
Talking politics in a digital workplace: 7 ways to keep it civil
The presidential election is stirring a lot of charged emotions; a labor attorney advises how managers can keep these conversations productive.
Chipotle ramps up D&I initiatives with free tuition to historically black college
The higher education benefit is increasing the company’s retention and advancement rates.
Salesforce, Google rank high with new Glassdoor diversity ratings
The company created new features that highlight employers who are committed to inclusion. Where does your company rank?
A quarter of women are considering scaling back careers
COVID-19 has many professional women reevaluating their priorities.
The first female recession threatens to wipe out decades of progress for U.S. women
As many as tens of millions of women may never return to the labor force, even after a vaccine is found. Altogether, global gross domestic product could be $1 trillion less in 2030 than it would be without a gender unemployment gap.
Goldman and GM among 34 firms to share private diversity data
The initiative is part of a broader push to compel workforce transparency at companies that have made explicit statements of support for equality.
Benefits Think How culturally competent is your EAP?
For EAPs, delivering culturally competent care means understanding the needs of a diverse workforce and ensuring that the elements of all services meet those needs strategically.
David Pawlowski
CuraLinc Healthcare
Google reaches $310 million settlement in misconduct case
Google parent Alphabet pledged $310 million to expand diversity efforts and resolve shareholder litigation that alleged the company’s board to failed to prevent sexual harassment and hid misconduct by executives.
5 ways employers can support transgender employees
“Many companies seek to create trans inclusive benefits packages, but their employees oftentimes don’t use the benefits provided because of fear of harassment in the process of accessing healthcare,” says Soltan Bryce, head of growth at Plume.
JPMorgan Chase’s Autism at Work program opens doors for those on the spectrum
Within the first six months, employees on the spectrum were 48% more productive than their non-spectrum peers who had been at the same job for three to ten years.
Cisco promises to increase Black representation in workforce
The biggest maker of networking equipment said its goal is to increase the company’s workforce of Black people by 25% by 2023 in the entry-level to manager levels.
Citi’s female CEO rose as bank faced failings on gender equality
The bank that Jane Fraser takes over in February pays women just 73 cents for every $1 men get, an even wider gap than the national average. And short of 40% of Citigroup’s managers are female.
