Briefing Paper: Diversity and Inclusion – Emerging Issues

The Black Lives Matter movement has energised the conversation around inclusion of those from racial/ethnic minority backgrounds, while economic strains emerging from the Covid-19 pandemic threaten the focus on diversity and inclusion more generally.

This Briefing Paper continues the conversation by exploring the challenges associated with building more inclusive workplaces for racial/ethnic minority colleagues, and the emerging opportunities and challenges around inclusion in remote working environments.

Specifically, we look at how the Black Lives Matter movement is reshaping conversation and practice, and we explore what HR can do in practical terms to harness the new opportunities remote working brings for diversity, while making sure that teams maintain inclusive practices.