Deloitte has started a major debate in diversity circles by turning its approach upside down. The firm is ending its women's network and other affinity groups and starting to focus on...men. The central idea: It'll offer all managers - including the white guys who still dominate leadership - the skills to become more inclusive, then hold them accountable for building more-balanced businesses.
Like consumers, the measure of an employer is now the total experience of the employee. Applications are now commonly available to rate and review employers. This creates the need for HR to market the employer to potential applicants and current staff.
The United States is the only developed country in the world that does not guarantee workers any form of paid leave. In fact, many women don't even get a paid day off to have a child.
But starting in 2020, Washington's workers will be able to take up to 16 weeks paid leave, which gives them the time they need to tend to their loved ones.
Not even close. Local women open up about the hurdles, barriers, and empty gestures in America's most progressive state.
Sexism in the workplace is hardly new, but the issue has increasingly appeared in the mainstream as greater numbers of women, and sometimes men, have stepped forward to call out toxic cultures or serial-offender bosses.
Type "millennials are" into a Google search bar, and you'll find that "lazy" comes up as one of the top three autocompletes.
The common perception is that members of the generation born between the early 1980s and late 1990s are easily bored, crave instant gratification and would rather hop from gig to gig than stay with one company throughout their working lives.
But comprehensive studies in both the US and UK this year have shown the opposite is the case.
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