SHIFT HR Compliance Training recently commissioned a research report with HR.com called “HR.com’s Future of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging 2024: Revive the Commitment to DEIB Through Better Strategic Alignment Research Report” (“HR.com Report”). Considering the recent attention in the media and online activity around HR, the workplace, and diversity in general, we want to take a few minutes to offer our perspective on some of the findings and supporting data.

The study shockingly found that women represent less than 20% of top leadership in one-third of organizations. To break that down for you, for a company with 10 top leaders, only 2 at most are women, while the other 8 are men. Another quarter of organizations said that women only represent between 21% to 40% of top leadership. That means that altogether, over half of organizations only have at most 40% women representation at top leadership levels. Even more surprising is that “despite this, just a third of organizations have a mandate to increase diversity in leadership roles.”

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