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Research Reveals How Covid Shrunk Mobility Patterns

The Horizons Tracker

Consequently, this decrease in mobility has resulted in a reduction of opportunities for people to engage with individuals from diverse social and economic backgrounds. “Income diversity of urban encounters decreased during the pandemic, and not just in the lockdown stages,” the researchers explain. Census Bureau.

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Research Reveals The Extent Of Bias Among Managers

The Horizons Tracker

While diversity, equity, and inclusion have seldom been higher on the priority list of organizations, managers still exhibit a wide range of biases in the workplace. They scored lower than people working in more traditionally blue-collar jobs, like transportation.

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Brainstorming Unity: Characteristics of an Inclusive Workplace

HR Digest

Listing out the characteristics of an inclusive workplace can get repetitive after a while because we keep repeating the word diversity as the end-all catchphrase for being inclusive. 60 percent of respondents in a LinkedIn study reported diversity within their sales team to be a major contributor to their team’s success.

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Covid Saw An Exodus Of Over 50s From The Workforce

The Horizons Tracker

For instance, the fact that so much movement is concentrated in industries such as retail, transport, and manufacturing suggests that workers are not confident that sectors that were struggling before the pandemic and were hit hard during it will ultimately recover. So why are people leaving the workforce in such large numbers?

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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

In 1973/4 I participated in an Overseas Fellowship at General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) in a work/study cooperative programme in Flint, Michigan, which was the birthplace of GM. I had joined the Rio Board in 2009, so I already had broad oversight of the company’s diverse operations.

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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Building Better Companies after COVID-19

HR Digest

At the same time, we need to make sure organizations gets inclusion right in order to enable that mix of people to participate, contribute and feel ownership. Find out if your company really values diversity. Are you integrating diversity into your hiring strategy and goals? UNDERSTANDING LEADERSHIP.

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How We Nudged Employees to Embrace Flexible Work

Harvard Business Review

Globally, many leading organizations have introduced workplace policies to enable flexible work, recognizing its benefits for staff retention, morale, commitment, diversity, recruitment, and being an employer of choice. This would have the added benefit of reducing pressure on the transport system. Chris Rogers/Getty Images.