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Diversity will suffer with five-day office mandates, research suggests
Washington Post ^ | Nov 14, 2024 | By Danielle Abril

Posted on 11/22/2024 6:40:49 PM PST by 11th_VA

As more companies jump on the bandwagon mandating five days a week in the office, workplace experts and researchers are sounding a warning: Inflexible policies could derail efforts to recruit and retain underrepresented workers and make organizations less diverse over time.

The reversal in policy is leading to a backlash from workers who have protested or even quit. Some researchers who study remote work and workplace productivity say in-office mandates most negatively impact underrepresented workers such as women and minorities, as well as caregivers and those who are neurodiverse.

“The workforce will become less diverse,” said Prithwiraj Choudhury, a Harvard Business School professor who studies remote work, adding that companies also risk losing top performers. “It will be more White and more male.” …

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1 posted on 11/22/2024 6:40:49 PM PST by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

Whoaaaaaa! Is somebody saying there are certain types that are lazy and shiftless?


2 posted on 11/22/2024 6:43:22 PM PST by Texas Eagle ("Feed me to the wolves, and I'll return leading the pack"- PDJT)
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To: 11th_VA

White males going to the office.

OMG!


3 posted on 11/22/2024 6:45:14 PM PST by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: 11th_VA

Everybody work from home. HR and the bean counters can assign the necessary Zoom filters.


4 posted on 11/22/2024 6:45:37 PM PST by heartwood (If you're looking for the /sarc tag, you just passed it..we)
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To: 11th_VA

Oh, the diversity! Having workers in the office will make it harder to persecute whitey!


5 posted on 11/22/2024 6:46:04 PM PST by wildcard_redneck
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To: Texas Eagle
CPT — Colored People Time.

6 posted on 11/22/2024 6:46:26 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: 11th_VA
Some researchers who study remote work and workplace productivity say in-office mandates most negatively impact underrepresented workers such as women and minorities....

Do tell, some researchers, dooooooo tell.

7 posted on 11/22/2024 6:47:00 PM PST by Texas Eagle ("Feed me to the wolves, and I'll return leading the pack"- PDJT)
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To: 11th_VA
Inflexible policies could derail efforts to recruit and retain underrepresented workers and make organizations less diverse over time.

Read the room. We don't care.

8 posted on 11/22/2024 6:48:02 PM PST by Drew68 (Today I'm thoroughly enjoying eating crow salted with liberal tears. Best meal I've ever had!)
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To: 11th_VA

Companies need to see how stupid this looks. United Airlines is using DEI to hire pilots. WTF? By all means, let’s not hire the best, safest pilots we can find but rather hire on the basis of DEI. When UAL announced this a while back, I cut up my UAL credit card.


9 posted on 11/22/2024 6:50:43 PM PST by econjack
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
Let the record show that it was a WaCompost writer-ette that found these conclusions agreeable and failed to call out any stereotyping or profiling!

I, for one, am appalled!

10 posted on 11/22/2024 6:51:11 PM PST by Texas Eagle ("Feed me to the wolves, and I'll return leading the pack"- PDJT)
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To: Texas Eagle

“Is somebody saying there are certain types that are lazy and shiftless?”

The Democrats have always been the party of fanatical racists.


11 posted on 11/22/2024 6:53:10 PM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: 11th_VA
From the article: ...a Harvard Business School professor...

Stopped right there. Must have a course to sell.

12 posted on 11/22/2024 6:55:35 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: cgbg

The veil lifts exceedingly slow, yet it lifts exceedingly unstoppable.


13 posted on 11/22/2024 6:55:58 PM PST by Texas Eagle ("Feed me to the wolves, and I'll return leading the pack"- PDJT)
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To: 11th_VA

“The workforce will become less diverse,” said Prithwiraj Choudhury

.....Perhaps Prithwiraj should return to his own country and work on diversifying businesses there.


14 posted on 11/22/2024 6:57:54 PM PST by FLvoter
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To: 11th_VA

These people never quit.

L


15 posted on 11/22/2024 7:00:57 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: 11th_VA

I liked working outside of an office, so I went into outside sales! Totally merit based income with a base salary plus commission. Funny how this type of position quickly defines and identifies the workers from those who watch the clock…punch in and punch out. I eventually went out as independent (no base), representing several manufacturers and now my daughter is doing the same. If you don’t work you lose your lines and have no income, but if you work hard you have freedom to schedule that work, take care of your kids and have a pretty good life.


16 posted on 11/22/2024 7:02:17 PM PST by antceecee ( )
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Liberals have the racist view that minorities are helpless children.

When Georgia required Gov’t ID to vote, and did away with most mail-in voting, liberals clutched their pearls and ran to the fainting couch. Well, black voting set records afterwards. I’m pretty sure that blacks, browns, etc will figure out how to show up for work.


17 posted on 11/22/2024 7:04:34 PM PST by Roadrunner383
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To: 11th_VA

“Diversity will suffer with five-day office mandates, research suggests”

Yet ANOTHER REASON for 5-day work weeks!


18 posted on 11/22/2024 7:05:22 PM PST by BobL
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To: antceecee

Wonderful!!! I wish I had gone that route. A friend’s dad sold construction materials and set his own schedule. His daughter also went into outside sales and did so well that she retired at 55!


19 posted on 11/22/2024 7:06:04 PM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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“... neurodiverse”

I had to look that one up. It’s NewSpeak word for mentally ill. It would be really unfair to keep those mentally ill people out of the office.


20 posted on 11/22/2024 7:07:05 PM PST by Locomotive Breath
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