Higher education, which should be a launchpad for increased opportunity and financial stability, has also struggled to deliver equal advancement across racial lines. T here are actually 20% fewer Black employees among tech companies that pledged, compared to those that didn’t make a public show of support. ![]() More than a year after the nation’s 50 highest valued companies that pledged support for Black lives in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, Black talent in corporate leadership has remained stagnant and Black executives make up only 8% of the C-suite. Unfortunately, this is more of a trend than a fleeting phenomenon. Aside from fresh lawsuits, these companies have something else in common: public commitments to hire more people of color that have barely moved the needle. This data is of little surprise when you consider that, in the past month alone, several of the county’s largest employers-including the NFL, Tesla, and Google-have come under fire for their facilitation of toxic, racist, and misogynistic work environments. ![]() A recent poll showed 52% of Black employees strongly prefer remote work, and 63% reported feeling more ambitious working from home compared to their white and male colleagues.
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