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he treatment of diversity by companies has gone through a rapid evolution, if not revolution, over the past decade.
Since the Black Lives Matter movement was born in 2013 and #MeToo in 2017, the approach in businesses has become increasingly driven by younger employees — either those in the new “diversity and inclusion” roles at big companies, or through staff groups and networks that unite to get the ear of the chief executive.
Increasingly, they see themselves as activists, people with similar “progressive” agendas, rather than employees. What do I mean by that? Well you’d be hard pushed to find an active pro-Brexit group in a university, a group of lesbian and gay staff who advocated for the binary nature of sex and therefore for
The Flash Sale.