How companies help multicultural women advance | Veterans with less-than-honorable discharge urge hiring changes | Starbucks and the future of unconscious-bias training
Only 4% of high-level leaders are women of color, according to Working Mother's 2018 list of the top 25 companies for multicultural women. Some companies make a concerted effort to improve representation, including adjusting recruitment to better draw women of color.
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Veterans with a less-than-honorable discharge say potential employers discriminate against them, and they want rule changes that afford them the preference given to veterans with an honorable discharge. Connecticut has warned employers rejecting veterans with certain types of "bad paper" could be discriminatory.
A Tork survey found almost 20% of workers in North America worried that taking regular lunch breaks would be viewed negatively by their boss and 13% were concerned about being judged by co-workers. About 90% of those surveyed said taking a break for lunch made them feel refreshed and ready to work.
Walmart's tech division has teamed with the nonprofit Path Forward to launch an internship program for women returning to tech careers after caregiving. Walmart Labs will start offering three-month "returnships" in September and aims to hire between 20 and 30 people under the program.
A lean HR strategy brings value to a business, though this requires changes in company culture, writes Jon Terry, chief evangelist for lean-agile strategy at Planview. Use Kanban boards to help visualize workflow, set work-in-progress limits as a next step and continuously identify ways to streamline operations, he writes.
