As pressure to improve diversity mounts, companies across the globe have rushed to create diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies and programmes aimed at improving representation of different demographic groups - yet little has actually changed. Despite the growing number of companies acknowledging that lack of diversity could impact their talent acquisition strategy and increase reputational risk, progress has remained very slow, particularly outside the boardroom and beyond gender diversity. This is especially difficult to fathom given the increase in diversity-related sharehol...
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