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EEO: Everything you need to know to be an equal opportunity employer
An Equal Opportunity Employer is an organization that agrees not to discriminate against any employee or job applicant because o...

Unconscious bias in recruitment: How can you remove it?
There’s a lot of talk around diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Companies try to get rid of any form of discrimination fr...

Disability inclusion in the workplace: removing the barriers to finding top talent
Is disability and inclusion in the workplace important? In the 2011 Report on Disability, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking ...

Why should employers care about the gender pay gap?
Businesses do not profit from the gender pay gap. It hurts them. But, the way the gender pay gap is framed by activists hurts th...

Why EEO statements fall short
Equal opportunity employer (or EEO) statements are generally considered a ‘best practice.’ They voice employers’ commitment to e...

How to foster workplace diversity
Diversity is generally accepted as an asset to modern teams. Research has shown that it can result in greater innovation and mar...

What does Massachusetts’ equal pay law mean for employers?
Will Massachusetts be the first state to close the gender pay gap? On August 1, the state passed the most robust equal pay law t...

How innovative companies combat unconscious hiring bias
On June 28, at the third installment of our Workable Ideas speaker series, we learned about effective strategies for reducing bi...

Diversity in the workplace: the case for building a diverse team
Building a diverse team is not about recruiting people based on qualities they were born with. It’s also not about giving underr...