Category: Diversity & Inclusion

Diversity and inclusion (D&I) is an important and ongoing strategy of any HR plan. Ensuring that your company supports hiring, engaging, and retaining diverse workers with varied backgrounds will set your company up for long-term success and an increased bottom line. This topic offers the latest strategies for talent management, key insights from diversity leaders, case studies on D&I in the workplace, and more.

Celebrating National Learning and Development Month

With National Learning and Development Month well underway, it’s important that HR leaders and organizations strive to create a culture that encourages learning and development. As organizations continue to struggle with employee retention and turnover rates, learning, development, and upskilling opportunities can be essential in engaging and investing in employees. In fact, a recent Gallup […]

Age Discrimination: Third Circuit Confirms Age Is Just a Number

On August 15, 2022, the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals (whose rulings apply to New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania employers) upheld the District of New Jersey’s dismissal of an employee’s age discrimination claims, finding she was unable to show her employer’s nondiscriminatory reasons for not hiring her were “so plainly wrong that it cannot […]

Equity in the Workplace: How to Create a Flexible Work Environment for All

The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way we work, but employers continue to struggle with how best to balance corporate goals with employee equity. Certain companies, such as Goldman Sachs and Apple, are pushing employees back into the office. Others, such as Twitter, have implemented a 100% remote work policy. Both types of policies have challenges […]

Strategies for Developing an Authentically Inclusive Company Culture

There’s been a lot of conversation surrounding issues of diversity and inclusion in the workplace in recent years. Indeed, there is mounting evidence that inclusivity and diversity are values employers, workers, and consumers alike enthusiastically embrace. But how do you know if your workplace is truly one where diversity is welcomed and where employees feel […]

HR Works Podcast: Catching Up on the CROWN Act and Equal Pay

Guests: HR Hero’s Celeste Duke, SPHR (Managing Editor and DEI specialist) and Joan Farrell, JD (Sr. Legal Editor and discrimination specialist) In this latest episode of the HR Works Podcast, we are joined by two past contributors to the HR Daily Advisor and current members of the HR Hero editorial staff, Celeste Duke and Joan […]

Eliminating Unconscious Bias in Your Hiring Process

When it comes to hiring, companies want to make the best decisions for their business by finding the most qualified candidates who will succeed in the role and contribute to the company’s bottom line. However, unconscious bias can often creep into the hiring process, leading to subpar candidates being hired or qualified candidates being overlooked. […]

HR Works Presents A Seat at the Table: The Power of Fostering Inclusion & Belonging

In episode eleven of A Seat, listen in as Kathryn Minshew, CEO and Co-Founder of job search and career advice site The Muse, discusses tips to foster inclusion and belonging, which starts with taking different approaches to listening, including listening to your people, according to Minshew. We also discuss the power of incremental progress, the value of […]

6 Reasons Silicon Valley’s Return-to-Work Policies Are Harming Employees

Over in Silicon Valley, the world of work is changing. This time, however, it’s not changing in a groundbreaking way, as you might expect.  Instead, many companies are looking backward in their remote working policies to before the pandemic. Although they publicly embraced flexible working over the past few chaotic years, almost on a whim, […]

Gender Dysphoria May Be an ADA Disability

The rights of transgender persons have become a hot button issue not only in schools and sports but in the workplace as well. Recently, the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals (whose rulings apply to employers in Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and West Virginia) weighed in on whether a transgender woman, who suffered […]

At Voya, DEI is for Everyone

It may sound obvious, but diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs are much more successful when they’re truly inclusive. And this touches on an important shortcoming of many DEI efforts, namely that they are too laser-focused on women and people of color. Of course, these groups are foundational to the objectives and success of any […]