A new survey suggests that people don’t feel like corporate leaders are listening to their concerns about discrimination:
- Only a third of employees say that management always listens to their concerns about discrimination (race, sex/gender, age, etc.) without blame or defensiveness.
- Just 23% of women say that if they reported concerns about discrimination in the workplace, leadership would always take meaningful corrective action.
- Only 11% of Black employees feel that management always listens to concerns about discrimination in the workplace without getting defensive.
- Only 23-31% of frontline employees feel that they can report concerns about discrimination in the workplace without causing problems for themselves.
Executives more likely than frontline workers to say they feel like management listens to concerns about workplace discrimination without getting defensive, but even they have their doubts. Only 38% say that management always listens.
